A Zwifter recently asked me how many miles of roads are in Watopia, and I had to confess, to my abject shame, that I didn’t know.
So I set out to find the answer. It took some doing – lots of clicking on route details and mousework on Strava – but I’ve computed road length estimates for every map in Zwift as of October 15, 2025.
| Map | Km | Miles |
| Bologna | 8.0 | 5.0 |
| Crit City | 1.9 | 1.2 |
| France | 55 | 34.2 |
| Innsbruck | 23.2 | 14.4 |
| London | 40.9 | 25.4 |
| Makuri Islands | 70.9 | 44.1 |
| New York | 21.3 | 13.2 |
| Paris | 6.6 | 4.1 |
| Richmond | 16.2 | 10.1 |
| Scotland | 14.3 | 8.9 |
| Watopia | 136.4 | 84.8 |
| Yorkshire | 13.8 | 8.6 |
| Total | 408.5 | 253.8 |
Note: I didn’t double-count road length in the above table. For this calculation, a 10km stretch of 2-way road is worth 10km, not 20km.
That’s Not All, Folks
I didn’t include the experimental Gravel Mountain map in the list above since it’s never been open to the public for free riding or events. This map contains a single loop of dirt road that is 5.2 km (3.2 miles) long.
Also not included on the list are Zwift’s Climb Portal roads, since I wasn’t quite sure how to best count them. They aren’t freely accessible roads, plus they technically exist in two places and are thus seen as different roads by Strava if you ride them in Watopia or France. That said, it’s worth mentioning that there are currently 421 km (261.6 miles) worth of Climb Portal roads spread across 44 different climbs which rotate on a set schedule. That’s a lot of new “tarmac!”
Add the Gravel Mountain loop and colorful Climb Portal roads to the list above and you’ve got 834.7 km (518.7 miles) of roads in Zwift.
Your Thoughts
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HI WHEN WILL NEW ROUTES BE ADDED TO ZWIFT ?
You mean new routes besides the Southern Coast road expansion from about a month ago(https://zwiftinsider.com/southern-coast-expansion/)?
HI WHEN WILL NEW ROUTES BE ADDED TO ZWIFT HUB?
I think zwifthub.com looks to be updated with Southern Coast now.
Got me thinking how many 1-way roads there are:
Neokyo roundabout near the tunnel
Ventop loop
Bologna loop at each end.
radio loop
AdZ Loop
volcano loop
lax loop
dessert loop
Repack ridge/rush
if I remember correctly in Richmond you can only turn the flats in the counter-clockwise direction.
Plus all the start pens.
What definition of 1-way are you using? Clearly you can ride both ways on all of them except Repack Ridge (I think).
all the loops are one way entry. Some them you can do a u-turn but mostly you cannot.
Well done, Eric. What we need now is the longest possible rebel route 😜
I’m not entirely sure how long it would be, but the longest mostly non-double backing route could involve:
From Tempus, through the new road, short side of jungle, up reverse Epic to radio tower, down the bridge to the right over to Titans grove, turning towards Beach, up the KOM, through JWB sprint and up and over Volcano, and either, finishing off with what’s essentially Road to Sky (won’t go through tunnels), or, turning towards tunnels, and doing the Epic Bypass, towards Road to Sky (won’t go over steep climb towards Epic Rev. base).
I don’t believe this route would be more than Uber Pretzel however, and would end up closer in distance to Mega Pretzel, just shy of the 70 mile range.
Where Uber makes up a lot of distance is all of its double-backing (things like visiting Jungle twice, Tempus twice, and all of the pretzeling between), or Mega Pretzel just doing things twice both ways (that’s a pretzel for you).
I believe this ‘rebel route’ would only miss the actual beachfront road, and one of the tunnel sections. So somewhere ~2 miles thereabouts of roads not traveled in Watopia.
However, where Uber Pretzel at ~80 miles is probably 15+ miles of the same roads, “my” rebel route there has about 2 miles or less of roads ridden over more than once (leadin to ADZ for example where it’s required which is already 1 mile).
Could the route go up to 100+ miles and manage to hit every single road at least once? Absolutely! But I think there’s something to be said about not double-backing over the same road several times just to get somewhere else.
Maybe this is the route I will do this winter when I have a free day and the will to ride [all day]!
I would definitely consider both directions in your calculations. For flat loops it may make to difference but on hilly routes the climbs a very different based on which direction that you take them.
Eric, thanks so much for figuring this out! I was recently thinking of trying to do all the roads on all the worlds in 1 day as a good challenge for this winter. Could you help figure out how best this could be accomplished? I want to try to do each world in one continuous ride so I imagine there would be at least some spots I’d have to add duplicate miles (like up and down any one-way summits if the world had >1 such summit). I was thinking creating a meet-up would be the best way to access closed worlds. So for each world I’d want to figure out the best route to choose to start on then figure out all the turns to most efficiently complete it. Any help or suggestions you have would be much appreciated!
A few years ago (I think when the initial Makuri was released), there was an article about the shortest route to complete it and some other worlds. It may take some searching though.
GCN did a video on attempting this last year; if the link below doesn’t work, search for “Can I ride on every road on Zwift in one go?”
https://youtu.be/3lBZZXjrExg?feature=shared
I would like to ride an itinerary to cover all of Watopia in one single ride, covering all Watopia roads, the Alpe, Epic KOM and Radio Tower, all bypasses and both Repack, and even the desert roundabouts… Just every inch of rideable Watopia in the shortest possible itinerary, with no U-turns. Once this is defined as a Rebel Route, I’m interested!
What would be the start point in an objective to do the least possible overlaps without U-turns?
This is a Quiz-Challenge for all of you Zwifters? Let’s get an itinerary defined for this.
Get one of your buddies to ride up the Alpe, use the join another Zwifter feature and start from there.
We need a Belgium map with a Velodrome
I asked this same question a couple days ago when someone else asked for a velodrome but didn’t get a response:
Honest question not intending to be critical. My son and I go to one of the few velodromes in the USA and it’s a whole different kind of riding and racing but I don’t understand the request to have a velodrome in Zwift – even with steering enabled. I can’t see how going around and around in circle would be appealing with the current Zwift gameplay system. What would this look like in your mind? What am I missing?
There’s a velodrome on indieVelo and I love doing elimination and points races on it. Go check it out, it’s much fun! That’s really something missing on Zwift.
I’m with Philippe in thinking elimination and points races could be good; I think that would be the biggest draw for a track which should be relatively easy to create because it’s so short.
Also, the chance to do interval training on a short distance – e.g. go for a PB over a lap (or 1km), then have several cool laps, then go for a PB again, could be fun.
It wouldn’t even need to be a “proper” velodrome – just a 250m/500m oval of track with or without banking could be fun.
How do you know what other people want? I assume there are many people that never have been to a velodrome and would love to try it out. And for others, while velodrome might be booked out, they might use it for training to get into the mindset. It doesn’t cost much to build a velodrome in digital. What I really miss is Zwift creating polls, asking the community what they should work on next. Ride on.
Interesting. I’d have bet money that there were more miles in London than France. My favourite World to ride is Watopia. Favourite for short races is Crit city (I love it) and for long races, Richmond (it never gets old). Soft spots for Makuri and New York 😀
An interesting read and some surprises there!
Inspired my Zwift World Tier List:
S Watopia
A Makuri Islands
B London/Richmond/Innsbruck
C Scotland/Yorkshire
D Bologna
E France/Paris/Crit City
F- New York…
Sorted.
Great job putting this together. What about elevation? 😜
Thanks!
I’d really love it if zwift made all of the event only routes/worlds available in training sessions and meet-ups. For instance, I’d love to be able to chose to do a custom workout session in Bologna. Should be an easy thing to do!
I’m looking for a map of every world of Zwift like the PDF map of Watopia here on Zwiftinsider, anyone an idee where to find it? Thanks.
https://zwiftinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Watopia-2.16-1.pdf
Yes the map of Watopia I know, but I’m searching the same from all the other worlds: Makuri, New York, France, …
I hope they will open the route/world creation for the community one day with an editor like e.g. Trackmania. Then their could be a public vote from Zwift users which routes to include in the official app. Why not have a community world?
I’d like that! I already have ideas in my mind!
I recently road all roads of Watopia in a single ride, including Southern Coast. It took me around 161km. It didn’t feel like I covered many roads twice – apart from the ADZ decent.
Curious to know: What is the shortest way to ride all Watopia roads? Does anyone know?
These data serve as a nice to-do list for needed zwift route expansion.
* Crit City: add a second loop, allowing for more complex circuits
* Bologna: complete the Giro del’Emilia finishing circuit, a short additional climb followed by a highly technical descent back to the base of San Luca, allowing for circuit races.
* Paris: extend the route across the Seine to Tour Eiffel. This may be a bit more challenging than others due to the urban setting, but is justified by the 2024 Olympics.
* Scotland: add an additional loop climbing Crow Road, which was part of the 2023 World Championship course prior to the Glasgow circuit. Crow Road is already a portal climb.
* Innsbruck: they have the “short loop”. Add the “long loop” ridden by the elite men on their final lap. It is like the short loop but adds the Höttling, a steep 300 meter climb starting and finishing near the Leg Snapper.
* France: connect some of the gravel road stubs, and provide a climb from the base of Petit KOM to the Ventop climb near the train. This would allow for circuits with a longer, harder climb (from either side).
Others would suggest expansions of London, New York, Yorkshire, or Richmond. I don’t have solid ideas for these so I leave them off my list. I actually feel as if these, as-is, already provide decent maps. I suppose in London you could add Hyde Park near The Mall, assuming you wanted to stay in the real world.