Rebel Routes: Spiral Into the Volcano

UPDATE: this route is now an official Zwift route, added to the game to host the final stage of Tour de Zwift 2024! See official route page >

“Rebel Routes” are Zwift rides which are not available on Zwift’s routes list, thus requiring manual navigation.

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The reward for your rebel ride? Exploring a new route, knowing you’ve gone where few Zwifters have gone before. And a Strava segment rank in the tens or hundreds instead of the thousands!

Route Description

This is a long flat route which ends in a climb up the Volcano. It is most comparable to the Volcano Climb After Party event-only route, except Spiral Into the Volcano has an extra 10 miles of flat before the volcano climb.

If you follow this route on a map you’ll see how it was named: an ever-tightening counter-clockwise spiral which culminates in the spiral climb up the volcano.

We begin at the downtown start/finish in the reverse direction. Ride around the Volcano Flat to Ocean Blvd then Fuego Flats for a nice flat run through the desert which includes the longest timed “sprint” on Zwift.

Ride through downtown Watopia and around Volcano Flat a second time, but this time when we get on Ocean Blvd we’ll take that all the way back through downtown Watopia. The spiral begins!

Once more through downtown and around Volcano Flat, then hang a left at the Italian Villas to go over The Esses and back to the Volcano. We’ll loop once around the volcano (one lap of Volcano Circuit CCW), then hang a left for the Volcano Climb finish. The route ends at the top of the Volcano as you cross under the KOM banner.

Profile

This route is quite flat, with nothing more than short pitches or rollers until the final Volcano KOM finish which is 2.3 miles (3.6km) long at an average gradient of 3%.

Route details:
Distance: 55.6km (34.6 miles)
Elevation Gain: 324m (1,064′)

Getting Started

When freeriding, select the “Volcano Flat” route to begin–this reduces your number of manual turns required to just 6. You will spawn just before the downtown start banner.

IMPORTANT: you must ride down through the banner then flip a u-turn and ride through the banner in the reverse direction to begin the route!

Turn by Turn

There are many intersections of this route, but typically only 6 manual turns are required. All other intersections should be routed correctly by default, but sometimes Zwift changes the default turns when you’re deep into a randonneuring rebel route, so stay vigilant.

Here is the complete list of turns:

1. Right to Volcano Circuit
2. Right to Volcano Circuit CCW
3. Right to Volcano Circuit
4. Right (Straight) to Italian Villas
5. Right to 360 Bridge
6. Right to Sequoia Circle
7. Left (Straight) to Sequoia Circle
8. Right to Epic KOM
9. Left to Desert Flats
10. Right (Straight) to Desert Flats
11. Left to Downtown
12. Straight (Right) to Ocean Blvd
13. Right to Downtown
14. Right to Downtown
15. Right to Volcano Circuit
16. Right to Volcano Circuit CCW
17. Right to Volcano Circuit
18. Right (Straight) to Italian Villas
19. Right to 360 Bridge
20. Right to Sequoia Circle
21. Left (Straight) to Sequoia Circle
22. Left (Straight) to Downtown
23. Left (Straight) to Downtown
24. Right to Downtown
25. Right to Volcano Circuit
26. Right to Volcano Circuit CCW
27. Right to Volcano Circuit
28. Right (Straight) to Italian Villas
29. Left to Sprint
30. Left (Straight) to Sprint
31. Left to Volcano Circuit
32. Right to Volcano Circuit CCW
33. Right to Volcano Circuit
34. Left to Volcano Circuit CCW
35. Left (Straight) to Volcano
36. Left (Straight) to Volcano KOM

Strava Segment and Maps

Strava Forward Segment

Rebel Route Suggestions

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