Carolina Tarwheels
A group of bicycle enthusiasts who organize social rides in Orange, Durham, Wake, Alamance, and Chatham counties of North Carolina.

Carolina Tarwheels Route Archive

All of our routes are available for export to your bike computer. To enable downloading routes to your phone using the RideWithGPS App, you need to be added to the Tarwheels RideWithGPS club member list by clicking this Link.

After clicking the link and you are interested in being a ride leader and want to create club routes, then send a request to archivist@tarwheels.net and request "edit" access to the club routes. If you don't get "edit" access, your routes will be created in your personal account rather than the club account.

Once you have edit access, feel free to create your route by following these steps

  1. Enter the club space by signing into club (your menu will turn yellow)
  2. Create your route
  3. Save your route with privacy set to public (please follow our naming conventions, as our maintenance tool depend the specific format)
  4. Click on the routes menu item and look up your route. You need to do the lookup so you will see the route number that RideWithGPS assigned to your route.
  5. ReEdit your route
  6. Copy the link that contains the route number.
  7. Enter the route number or paste in the entire link you copied in the cue sheet generation tool
  8. Submitting the link with create the cue sheets and will present you with the links
  9. Copy the links to your cue sheets
  10. Paste the cue sheet links into the top lines of description field of your route on RideWithGPS
  11. Save your route with the links in the description.
Route Naming Convention --> xxyy.yr dddddd ...

  • xx - is a two letter code for the starting point
  • yy.y - is the distance of the ride as computed by RideWithGPS (the decimal component included and there is NO space between xx & yy.y)
  • r - is "R" if this route is a reverse of an existing route.
  • dddddd - is the destination or rest stop for the ride. This can be of variable length but only the first 6 characters will be visible on a GPS device. There should always be a space before the dddddd
Common Errors:
  • There is NO space before the xx
  • There is NO space between xx and yy.y
  • yyy is ok, but .yy is not, there is only one decimal point.
  • There is NO space between the yy.y and r
  • There IS a space between the yy.y/yy.yr and ddddddd ...
Starting Point Codes: (click on the initials to see thumbnails of all of the routes from that starting location)

  • BA - Breakaway Cafe
  • BH - Bobbet Hole (part of Eno River State Park)
  • BF - BikeFest Routes
  • BR - Briar Chapel
  • FB - Five Fork Baptist Church (No Restroom at start)
  • FF - Few's Ford (part of Eno River State Park)
  • EC - Efland Cheeks Community Center
  • EM - Efland United Methodist Church
  • FV - Forest View Elementary School
  • GP - Gold Park
  • GW - Greenway Rides
  • HM - Holmstead Market
  • HP - Herndon Park
  • JF - Jones Ferry Park and Ride
  • KP - Martin Luther King Jr. Park, Carrboro
  • LM - Lake Michie
  • LR - Little River
  • ME - Mangam Elementary School, Bahama
  • MV - Maple View Farm Ice Cream Store
  • NH - New Hope Church Trailhead Park
  • SC - Sandy Creek Park Trail Head
  • TG - The Goat in Fearrington Village
  • TO - Tour d Orange
  • TW - Tobacco Wood Brewing, Oxford
  • UG - Union Grove Methodist Church
  • UP - Umstead Park
  • WF - Whitfield Road Volunteer Fire Department
  • WP - Wilson Park
  • ZB - Z Bowl in Mebane
  • RR - Raven Rock Ramble Routes
  • RM - River Mill Cycles
  • BC - Bicycle Chain - Apex
  • CM - Clean Machine Carrboro and Bicycle Chain - Chapel Hill
  • PB - Performance Bicycle in Chapel Hill
  • PF - Pluck Farm
  • PR - Picnic Restaurant (BBQ)
  • PU - An ad hoc starting location in our area
  • ZG - An ad hoc starting location for a Gravel Ride
  • ZZ - An ad hoc starting location NOT in our area
If you have a starting point that is not listed, go ahead and create your ride using PU as the starting location. As we see multiple rides starting from a single location, we will create a new startup location and rename the routes accordingly. These are commonly used by POP UP Rides: a ride that is not regularly scheduled and may or may not use one of the established starting locations.

If you have a ride that has both long and short routes, it is best to create two routes, each with a seperate route number and cue sheet. Use tags to connect the two routes together for easy lookup.

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