The Steel City Circuit

With a big chunk of it being in the national park, Sheffield rightly calls itself the Outdoor City. This route does a lap around the Steel City and is a mix of woodland trails, urban riding and open countryside.

The route starts and finishes at Dore Railway, a leafy suburb around 4 miles to the southwest of the city centre. The first third of the route is fairly lumpy – another of Sheffield’s geographical claims is that it is built on seven hills – just like Rome. Once you’ve passed through Oughtibridge the trails start to flatten out a bit,

There’s a bit of urban riding around Meadowhall, but the vast majority of it is on segregated cycle routes so it’s not as scary as it looks on the map. Once you are past there you pass through a series of urban woodlands.

The southern part of the route dips into Derbyshire and heads up the Moss Valley which has a lovely rural feel to it,

The route is suitable for gravel and cyclocross bikes.