Easy 4km family forestry ride in the Hangklip State Forest above Louis Trichardt — one of the five beginner to moderate Soutpansberg forest routes for permitted riders passes through beautiful indigenous forest with picnic sites, suitable for families and first-time forest riders in one of South Africa’s most biodiverse mountain forest systems.
Easy 15km urban loop around Polokwane — Limpopo’s capital city has developed cycling infrastructure and urban green spaces suitable for recreational riding, linking the Polokwane Game Reserve, Peter Mokaba Stadium area and the city’s parks in an accessible urban loop for residents and visitors.
30km intermediate gravel and bush track ride from Naboomspruit through the Waterberg Bushveld — the extended ride from this small Waterberg farming town ventures further into the mopane and euphorbia bushveld for a longer intermediate session in the characteristic wide-open terrain of the Limpopo Waterberg.
Easy 20km savanna sprint from Northam — a small platinum-mining Waterberg town on the R510 between Thabazimbi and Brits surrounded by the flat savanna of the western Waterberg plateau, offering accessible gravel road riding through the mining and farming landscape of this platinum-rich corridor.
20km easy loop in Nylsvley Nature Reserve — the largest natural flood plain in southern Africa is an internationally recognised Ramsar Wetland Site where up to 70,000 waterbirds gather when the Nyl River floods, offering flat gravel road riding through one of South Africa’s most extraordinary birding habitats.
22km intermediate gravel and bush track loop from Phalaborwa — the Lowveld mining and safari town at Kruger’s western Phalaborwa Gate offers gravel riding through the flat mopane bushveld with wildlife from the surrounding private reserves visible and the Kruger boundary just beyond the town’s eastern edge.
18km intermediate gravel loop in the Polokwane Game Reserve — a surprisingly large municipal game reserve on the edge of Limpopo’s capital city with white rhino, giraffe, zebra and a diversity of plains game on flat bushveld terrain offering accessible wildlife riding close to the city.
Easy 20km gravel sprint from Mokopane — the Waterberg’s most significant town near the famous Makapan Valley fossil site (a UNESCO World Heritage Site) offers accessible gravel road riding through the Bushveld terrain on the town’s agricultural fringe with the Waterberg landscape as backdrop.
Easy 25km farmland gravel loop from Mookgophong — the small Waterberg farming town between Bela-Bela and Mokopane offers relaxed gravel riding through the mopane and Waterberg bushveld with citrus and cattle farming on the Waterberg plateau edge.
20km intermediate gravel ride from Musina through the baobab forests of the far north — South Africa’s northernmost town near the Zimbabwe border is surrounded by the world’s most spectacular baobab forests, ancient trees thousands of years old in a dramatic hot Limpopo landscape.