Whimsy Bike

View Royal Bike Map

Bike lanes, trails and calm streets in View Royal, BC, and a route planner that picks the comfortable way.

Open the View Royal bike map

Map of View Royal's bike routes, with the rest of Greater Victoria greyed out

Bike routes in View Royal

About 37.2 km of mapped bike routes, 99% of them on protected lanes, trails, painted lanes or traffic-calmed streets.

Protected lanes and paved trails11.9 km
Painted bike lanes10.7 km
Shared streets0.4 km
Unpaved trails14.2 km

Main bike routes

Rail trails

On the map

CFB Esquimalt, Thetis Lake, Victoria General Hospital.

How View Royal's bike routes came to be

View Royal is crossed by both rail trails heading west: the Galloping Goose, and the E&N Rail Trail's Humpback Connector, whose second phase, from the Four Mile Bridge on the Island Highway to the Galloping Goose, was finished in 2019.

Greater Victoria's bike network grew out of its old railways. The Galloping Goose Regional Trail was turned from a Canadian National line into a trail starting in 1987, the Lochside Regional Trail opened up the Saanich Peninsula in 2001, and the E&N Rail Trail has been built in phases beside the Esquimalt & Nanaimo line since 2009. In 2016 the City of Victoria adopted a plan for a network of bike routes for all ages and abilities, and its first protected lane, on Pandora Avenue, opened in 2017. Neighbouring municipalities have been adding protected lanes of their own since.

Plan a ride

Whimsy Bike plans routes across View Royal and the rest of Greater Victoria on your device. Comfortable routes favour protected lanes, trails and quiet streets; Balanced and Direct trade some comfort for distance. Every route explains why it was chosen.

Bike maps by area

Rail trails