“The Watopia 150!” Route Details (Watopia)
See zwiftinsider.com/route/the-watopia-150/
Zwift Climb Portal Schedule
Zwift Climb Portal Schedule
Zwift’s Climb Portal gives Zwifters access to a growing library of famous real-life climbs in a gamified environment where roads are colored based on gradient. Learn more about the Climb Portal >
While the library of climbs continues to grow, only three climbs are accessible on a given day:
- Climb of the month: the first climb listed on the calendar below rotates monthly. This climb is available only in France, and you can ride it by clicking the appropriate card at the bottom of your home screen under “Just Ride”.
- Featured daily climb: the second climb listed rotates daily and is only available in Watopia. Ride it by clicking the appropriate card at the bottom of your home screen under “Just Ride”.
- Climb of the week: the last climb listed rotates weekly and awards bonus XP upon completion. This climb is only available in France, and can be accessed via the “Climb of the Week” card on your homescreen.
Learn more about a climb by clicking it in the schedule below.
Access the currently featured monthly and daily climbs from the bottom of the Zwift homescreen under “Just Ride”:
Access the Climb of the Week from the “Climb of the Week” card:
Zwift Course Calendar – Current Guest World Schedule
Watopia is available every day while the other maps rotate as “Guest Worlds” according to the calendar below. This gives Zwifters access to three worlds (Watopia + two guest worlds) at any given time.
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| 1Makuri IslandsMakuri Islands ScotlandScotland | 2Makuri IslandsMakuri Islands ScotlandScotland | 3New YorkNew York Makuri IslandsMakuri Islands | 4New YorkNew York Makuri IslandsMakuri Islands | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5ParisParis FranceFrance | 6ParisParis FranceFrance | 7RichmondRichmond InnsbruckInnsbruck | 8LondonLondon RichmondRichmond | 9LondonLondon RichmondRichmond | 10YorkshireYorkshire LondonLondon | 11YorkshireYorkshire LondonLondon | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 12New YorkNew York Makuri IslandsMakuri Islands | 13New YorkNew York Makuri IslandsMakuri Islands | 14Makuri IslandsMakuri Islands ScotlandScotland | 15Makuri IslandsMakuri Islands ScotlandScotland | 16ParisParis FranceFrance | 17ParisParis FranceFrance | 18YorkshireYorkshire LondonLondon | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 19YorkshireYorkshire LondonLondon | 20LondonLondon RichmondRichmond | 21LondonLondon RichmondRichmond | 22RichmondRichmond InnsbruckInnsbruck | 23Makuri IslandsMakuri Islands ScotlandScotland | 24Makuri IslandsMakuri Islands ScotlandScotland | 25New YorkNew York Makuri IslandsMakuri Islands | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 26New YorkNew York Makuri IslandsMakuri Islands | 27ParisParis FranceFrance | 28ParisParis FranceFrance | 29YorkshireYorkshire LondonLondon | 30YorkshireYorkshire LondonLondon | 31RichmondRichmond InnsbruckInnsbruck | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Keep in mind the guest course changeover happens at midnight Eastern/9pm Pacific (4am UTC the following day).
If you’d like to ride an off-schedule course, see How To Access the Route You Want.
All About Zwift’s “Wild Isles” Watopia Expansion
All About Zwift’s “Wild Isles” Watopia Expansion
Today, Zwift launches their much-anticipated Wild Isles Watopia expansion. Located west and south of Jarvis, the new roads provide a flatter connection from Jarvis to the Jungle. Read on for all the details including new routes, leaderboard segments, images, videos, and more…
Meet the Wild Isles
This expansion is visually inspired by California’s coast and particularly Santa Catalina Island. (Locals simply call it “Catalina Island” or “Catalina”, and it’s visible from Zwift’s Long Beach headquarters.)
The new roads are now included on our popular Watopia map poster, which you can download for free as a PDF, or purchase as an affordable 24″36″ poster print.
Zooming into the map gives us a clear picture of this expansion. The unshadowed area below is the expansion:
Zwift says the expansion includes 18km of new roads, but my measurements show it’s closer to 20.7km. That means this expansion is about the same size as Watopia’s Southern Coast addition in late 2023.
You can see there are four distinct “areas” in the Wild Isles:
- Caldera Cruiser: Named for the volcanic scenery, this is a slightly rolling crit circuit with its own start pens. A lap segment leaderboard tracks efforts in both directions.
- Power Islands: This pan flat, distinctly-shaped circuit will include some new power segments, with fresh functionality, in the coming months. Flatlanders, rejoice: this is the new “flattest route on Zwift”, with exactly 0 meters of elevation gain per lap! While the flat, straight roads may seem boring to some, Zwift’s art team punched up the experience nicely with some really beautiful foliage and animated sea life. A lap segment leaderboard tracks efforts in both directions, and there are also lap counters near the lap arch.
- Seafoam Circuit: Our second crit circuit complete with start pens, this section’s distinguishing feature is the bison herd, which is a very Catalina Island-esque thing to include! A lap segment leaderboard tracks efforts in both directions.
- Avalon: Although it’s not a circuit in itself, this is absolutely a distinct area in the Wild Isles. It’s a re-creation of real-life Avalon, the only incorporated city on Santa Catalina Island. This section also includes the only sprint segment in the expansion, along with the distinctive Catalina Casino building.
Notable Sites
Most of the Wild Isles are exactly that: wild! But the Avalon area includes many buildings and a busy harbor. The famous Catalina Casino is located on the south end of town, just like in real life. The Queen Mary, formerly docked off the coast of Jarvis, occasionally makes an appearance, and seaplanes fly in over the road and land in the harbor as well. There’s also a tantalizing gravel road – currently inaccessible – climbing into the hills behind the town
I suppose Zwift couldn’t call it the Wild Isles without including some new wildlife. Dolphins play in the waters as you ride past, and a whale even breaches (although I haven’t seen it happen yet)! The Seafoam Circuit’s bison herd mirrors the real-life island’s herd of ~150 American bison, and you’ll also spot some new birds, hermit crabs (if you look closely), and new plants.
This being an archipelago, there are plenty of bridges in play. Most are wooden, and there are some nice visuals as you ride below bridges or take one to cross over scenery below.
There are lots of other sites to see, but I’ll leave you with these very California-feeling “Bike Route” and Highway 1 signs I spotted. See if you can find them for yourself in game!
Cycling Routes
Today’s launch adds 9 cycling routes to the game. Click the route name for a few more details. (These route homepages will become much richer once the expansion goes live and we can add photos, text descriptions, videos, etc.)
- Caldera Coaster (5.9km, 12m): A simple lap of the caldera portion of the expansion, corresponding to the “Caldera Cruiser Reverse” lap segment (below). This is a fairly flat figure 8.
- California Dreamin’ (21.2km, 106m): Starts in the caldera area of the expansion, but heads over to the Hilly KOM and a few other old-school Watopia proper roads before coming back to the caldera to complete the circuit.
- California Roll (33.9km, 139m): A flat route the covers all the road of four different Watopia circuits: the new Seafoam Circuit, the Caldera Cruiser, the Volcano Circuit, and the Flat Route.
- Four Foalsmen (70.2km, 578m): The baby brother of the Four Horsemen still takes on four KOM segments (Titans Grove, Volcano, Jarvis, Hilly), but with much less climbing than its big brother.
- Laps, Camera, Traction (26.4km, 217m): Starts at the new Seafoam Circuit, then heads through Avalon to the Jungle, where we complete a figure 8 before heading back to complete the Seafoam Circuit.
- Pacific Pursuit (54.2km, 381m): A scenic route that takes in a diverse set of Watopian biomes. From downtown Watopia to the Wild Isles, into the Jungle and across the Epic KOM Cutoff before heading out to Fuego Flats and returning to downtown via Titans Grove.
- Seafoam Circuit (4.1km, 18m): A short figure-8 circuit hosted in the bison-friendly Seafoam Circuit island group. This route is analogous to the Seafoam Circuit Reverse lap segment (below).
- The Watopia 150! (151.6km, 0m): We can all agree this one is just a bit crazy, right? It’s like a drawn-out Cirque du Suffer. 30 laps of the expansion’s “Power Islands” section, which has its own “Lightning Lap” segment (see below). And 0 elevation across 150 km? Move over, Tempus Fugit. There’s a new flat route in town.
- Watt Goes Up Must Come Down (62.5km, 776m): Start at the caldera, cross the power islands to the Seafoam Circuit, then ride down through the Jungle and out onto the Southern Coast Road. That’s the flat bit done. Now it’s time to climb! Climb The Grade, keep climbing over the Epic KOM, then go out to Titans Grove before returning to complete your big loop.
Three more routes will become available next week for Tour of Watopia’s stage 5:
- Long Ride: One Ride to Rule Them All (38.7km, 506m)
- Standard Ride & Race: Molten Momentum (20.8km, 245m)
- Short Ride: Crit Cross (13.5km, 36m)
Running Routes
Three running routes have also been added – one for each of the new circuits.
- Lava legs (4km, 11m): This fairly flat figure 8 covers the Caldera Cruiser leaderboard segment.
- Lightning Lap Run (5km, 0m): This pan-flat route covers the Lightning Lap Reverse segment.
- Seafoam Scamper (3.6km, 19m): A short figure-8 circuit hosted in the bison-friendly Seafoam Circuit island group. This is the same route as the “Seafoam Circuit” above.
Leaderboard Segments
This expansion adds 8 leaderboards to the game. 6 of these are laps – forward and reverse versions of each of the new circuits. Then there’s also the new Sunset Sprint in Avalon. (Like the routes, these segment pages will become richer as we add more content in the coming days.)
- Caldera Cruiser
- Caldera Cruiser Reverse
- Lightning Lap
- Lightning Lap Reverse
- Seafoam Circuit
- Seafoam Circuit Reverse
- Sunset Sprint
- Sunset Sprint Reverse
Ride The New Routes!
The new routes are available in game starting today, so you can free ride them whenever you’d like.
Want to ride these as events? Pacific Pursuit, California Roll, and California Dreamin’ are featured Tour of Watopia stage 4 routes, so any ToW events you do this week will be on those routes.
I’m sure these routes will feature heavily in community events as the week unfolds and ride organizers update their group rides and races. In fact, I’m planning to feature The Watopia 150 on this week’s Thursday Pizza Burner. Join me!
Ride-Through Video
Here’s a simple ride-through covering all the new roads, if you want to see them in “living” color:
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48-Hour Sale at Zwift.com! 20% off KICKR Core, 15% off Zwift Ride
48-Hour Sale at Zwift.com! 20% off KICKR Core, 15% off Zwift Ride
The UK and Europe changed their clocks over the weekend, and the US and Canada are next. Cyclists know what this means: no more after-work rides. And more Watopia! (Which is actually perfect, since the expansion launches today.)
As riders head indoors in earnest, Zwift has just announced their second sale of the season. It’s a 48-hour “flash sale” with 15% off the Zwift Ride package and 20% off the Wahoo KICKR CORE.
The New Zwift Ride – 15% Off
With a strong feature set priced well below other smart bikes, the Zwift Ride has been the best deal going since it launched in the summer of 2024. Then the KICKR CORE was updated, and Zwift made further improvements to the frame, making it more adjustable and accommodating to a wider range of riders (read details here).
For the next 48 hours (through 12:05 am Wednesday, October 28 UK time), riders can pick up the Zwift Ride V2 + Wahoo KICKR CORE 2 package for 15% off:
US $1,104
(15% off MSRP of $1,299)
EU €1019
(15% off MSRP of €1,199)
UK £934
(15% off MSRP of £1,099)
Wahoo KICKR CORE 20% Off
The updated KICKR CORE from Wahoo builds on the strong reputation of the original CORE by adding WiFi connectivity, Race Mode, Bluetooth Bridging, and more. If you’re looking for an affordable first smart trainer, or looking to update your aging trainer, look no further.
Key Specs
- Max Wattage: 1800W
- Max Incline: 16%
- Max Decline: -10%
- Power Accuracy: +/-2%
- Connectivity: WiFi, ANT+ FEC, ANT+ Power, Bluetooth FTMS, and Zwift Protocol
A bit of inside perspective: the KICKR Core and JetBlack VICTORY are basically tied for the title of “leading mid-budget smart trainer”. They match each other almost perfectly feature-for-feature, while the KICKR is priced a bit higher than the VICTORY. Today’s sale puts the KICKR’s price just below the JetBlack VICTORY, though, in most markets.
US $439
(20% off MSRP of $549)
EU €439
(20% off MSRP of €549)
UK £399
(20% off MSRP of £499)
A final note: the shopping links in this post are affiliate links, so when you shop through them, Zwift Insider earns an affiliate commission. Thanks in advance for your support!
Notable Zwift Events for the Weekend of October 24-25
While Tour of Watopia is well underway and ever-popular, this is zFondo weekend as well, and there are lots of popular community events happening too! See below for my picks this weekend, including a rare running event.
🤝 zFondo Series: Makuri Pretzel
✅ Bonus XP ✅ Popular ✅ Endurance Challenge ✅ Jersey Unlock
This is the second of this season’s zFondo weekends, and it’s on a route we’ve never fondoed before: Makuri Pretzel (77.6km, 616m). Join whatever pace group you’d like, and hang with that group’s RoboPacer (or try to beat it)! Fondos aren’t official races – some treat them as personal challenges, some as a race. You do you.
Read all about the Zwift Fondo Series >
Multiple timeslots this weekend
Sign up at zwift.com/events/tag/zfondos
🤝THE FAST LANE
✅ A Category ✅ Drafting TT ✅ New Event ✅ Double XP
This new ride from the ZDR squad, in collaboration with WBR500, is sort of a stripped down and fast version of the popular Sunday WOW ride we often feature (see below). That means fast TT bikes and disc wheels, with drafting enabled.
There’s only one category for this ride, though, and the stated pace is 3.5-4.2 W/kg. Spicy! This is 3-hour ride on Watopia’s Tick Tock (double XP!).
Saturday, October 24 at 8am UTC/4am ET/Friday 1am PT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/5747470
🤝WOW – High Speed Ride on TT bikes with draft
✅ Kit Unlock ✅ Upgrade Hack ✅ Popular ✅ Double XP
Want to rack up miles fast? Join this popular group ride, which puts everyone on a fast TT bike (Canyon Speedmax CFR) with double draft enabled.
Everyone is on Watopia’s Beach Island Loop this week (double XP!), and there are five pace groups to choose from. This is the special monthly kit unlock event, which is extra long (100 miles).
Bike upgrading hack: on rides with forced bikes, whatever bike you’re on when you join the event is the bike that accumulates the distance/elevation/time. So, for example, you could accumulate lots of distance toward a gravel bike upgrade while riding the Canyon Speedmax CFR in this event.
Sunday, October 25 @ 12:30pm UTC/8:30am ET/5:30am PT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/5748895
🤝 MSR Der Club | RUBBER TO THE ALPE
✅ Banded ✅ Alpe du Zwift ✅ Kit Unlock
If you’ve always wanted to climb the epic Alpe du Zwift, but find the prospect a bit intimidating, why not try it in a banded ride? The beauty of banded rides is, as long as you keep pedaling, you’ll stay with the group and move along up the road.
This ride is on Watopia’s Tour of Fire and Ice (28km, 1187m)
Saturday, October 24 @ 8am UTC/4am ET/1am PT
Sign up at zwift.com/events/view/5753677
🤝🥇 Tour of Watopia
✅ Popular ✅ Unlocks ✅ Double XP
Zwift’s first big tour of the 2026/27 season kicked off last week, which means we’re on stage 3 this week. You can free-ride the routes whenever you’d like, or race them… but the biggest turnouts are for the group rides. Highly recommended.
Learn all about Tour of Watopia 2026 >
The category you sign up for (A, B, or C) determines the route and length of your ride. This week that means 27.9km, 23.6km, and 15.3km respectively.
Hourly events all weekend
Sign up at zwift.com/events/tag/tourofwatopia2026
🤝Halloween Chase Costumed Fun Run
✅ Run ✅ Fun ✅ Double XP ✅ Costumes
I usually feature 5 events, but wanted to throw a 6th in this week – and it’s a running event!
This is a fun one from the folks at ZwiftHQ. The category you choose determines which costume you wear. Everyone starts together, running two laps of the Volcano Circuit for a total of 11km.
Multiple timeslots this weekend
Sign up at zwift.com/events/tag/halloweenchase
How We Make Our Picks
We choose each weekend’s Notable Events based on a variety of factors including:
- Is the event unique/innovative in some way?
- Are celebrities (pro riders, etc) attending/leading?
- Are signup counts already high, meaning the event is extra-popular?
- Does the ride include desirable unlocks or prizes?
- Does the event appeal to ladies on Zwift? (We like to support this under-represented group!)
- Is it for a good cause?
- Is it just plain crazy (extra long races, world record attempts, etc)?
- Is it a long-running, popular weekly event with a dedicated leader who deserves a shout out?
In the end, we want to call attention to events that are extra-special and therefore extra-appealing to Zwifters. If you think your event qualifies, comment below with a link/details and we may just include it in an upcoming post!
Zwift Teases “Wild Isles” Watopia Expansion Routes
Zwift Teases “Wild Isles” Watopia Expansion Routes
Today, Zwift used the Companion app to tease details about the new routes coming to Watopia on Monday, October 26. The expansion is called the “The Wild Isles”, and it’s an archipelago island chain with some nods toward Catalina Island.
The as-yet-unreleased routes are marked “event only” in the Companion app, making them easy to find. Just tap “Routes” from the homepage, then Watopia, then filter the list by Event Only routes:
New Route Details
The following new routes are listed in Companion. Click the route name for a few more details. (These route homepages will become much richer once the expansion goes live and we can add photos, text descriptions, videos, etc.)
- Caldera Coaster (5.9km, 12m): A simple lap of the caldera portion of the expansion, corresponding to the “Caldera Cruiser Reverse” lap segment (below). This is a fairly flat figure 8.
- California Dreamin’ (21.2km, 106m): Starts in the caldera area of the expansion, but heads over to the Hilly KOM and a few other old-school Watopia proper roads before coming back to the caldera to complete the circuit.
- California Roll (33.9km, 139m): A flat route the covers all the road of four different Watopia circuits: the new Seafoam Circuit, the Caldera Cruiser, the Volcano Circuit, and the Flat Route.
- Four Foalsmen (70.2km, 578m): The baby brother of the Four Horsemen still takes on four KOM segments (Titans Grove, Volcano, Jarvis, Hilly), but with much less climbing than its big brother.
- Laps, Camera, Traction (26.4km, 217m): Starts at the new Seafoam Circuit, then heads through Avalon to the Jungle, where we complete a figure 8 before heading back to complete the Seafoam Circuit.
- Pacific Pursuit (54.2km, 381m): A scenic route that takes in a diverse set of Watopian biomes. From downtown Watopia to the Wild Isles, into the Jungle and across the Epic KOM Cutoff before heading out to Fuego Flats and returning to downtown via Titans Grove.
- Seafoam Circuit (4.1km, 18m): A short figure-8 circuit hosted in the bison-friendly Seafoam Circuit island group. This route is analogous to the Seafoam Circuit Reverse lap segment (below).
- The Watopia 150! (151.6km, 0m): We can all agree this one is just a bit crazy, right? It’s like a drawn-out Cirque du Suffer. 30 laps of the expansion’s “Power Islands” section, which has its own “Lightning Lap” segment (see below). An 0 elevation across 150 km? Move over, Tempus Fugit. There’s a new flat route in town.
- Watt Goes Up Must Come Down (62.5km, 776m): Start at the caldera, cross the power islands to the Seafoam Circuit, then ride down through the Jungle and out onto the Southern Coast Road. That’s the flat bit done. Now it’s time to climb! Climb The Grade, keep climbing over the Epic KOM, then go out to Titans Grove before returning to complete your big loop.
Leaderboard Segments
Companion app details include a simple map plus route length, elevation, time estimate, and segments, which means we’re able to see the details of the expansion’s segments as well, which include:
- Caldera Cruiser
- Caldera Cruiser Reverse
- Lightning Lap
- Lightning Lap Reverse
- Seafoam Circuit
- Seafoam Circuit Reverse
- Sunset Sprint
- Sunset Sprint Reverse
That’s Not All…
There are more new routes to come which aren’t yet visible in Companion, including:
- Lava Legs (4km): Tour of Watopia Stage 4’s run route
- One Ride to Rule Them All (38.7km, 506m): Tour of Watopia Stage 5’s long ride
- Molten Momentum (20.8km, 245m): Tour of Watopia Stage 5’s standard ride and race
- Crit Cross (13.5km, 36m): Tour of Watopia Stage 5’s short ride
- Run: Lightning Lap (5km): Tour of Watopia Stage 5’s run route
We’ll publish details as they are made available. Until then, here are two recent Insta teasers from Zwift:
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