All About Route Achievement Badges for Cyclists and Runners On Zwift

Did you know Zwift has 200+ cycling routes that earn you a special achievement badge and XP bonus the first time they’re completed? And runners have 35+ routes that award badges bonuses as well!

Here’s everything you need to know about Zwift route achievements, including the little gotchas that trip up new Zwifters and a full list of all the routes that award an achievement badge.

Every Badge has a Bonus

When you earn a route achievement badge, you also receive a one-time XP bonus for completing that route. This bonus is equal to the XP you already earned for the route (20XP per km), so you effectively double your XP earning rate when finishing routes for the first time, helping you level up faster.

Related: XP Farming on Zwift: the Definitive Guide to Earning More XP and Leveling Up Faster

Note: It’s not exactly accurate that you double your XP earning rate when running a new route. This is how Zwift set up the badges for running routes in the early days, but in recent years, they’ve set up running badges to award XP at the same rate as riding badges, which means newer route badges earn you about half the bonus that older ones did.

What Counts (and What Doesn’t)

Route badges can be earned in three ways:

• Select the route from the home screen, then ride the full route. The game will make the correct turns for you. You can do this as a “free ride” or a workout.
• Join an event (group workout, social ride, race, Meetup, etc) that uses the route, and ride the full route. (If the event ends before the route is finished, you must continue riding in order to finish the route and earn the badge.)
• Join a RoboPacer or friend using the route, then ride the full route. (This can be tricky, since you’ll probably start midway through the route. You must cross the route’s start and finish line to complete it.)

What will not earn the badge is you freely navigating the route when the game thinks you’re on a different route.

Many Zwifters have hopped into the game, completed a particular route, then tried to keep riding and complete another route in the same session. This only works if you teleport to a rider or RoboPacer on the new route. But if you try to navigate the route manually, Zwift won’t know which route you want to complete, and it won’t award the badge.

Your route selection is only saved when you select a route from the home screen menu, begin a new event, or teleport to another rider or RoboPacer.

Planning and Tracking Your Progress

Most Zwifters use the Companion app or the in-game badge indicator to track which routes have unearned badges (read how to do that here). These approaches aren’t without their drawbacks, though:

• The in-game list requires you to fire up the game before browsing, it only shows the day’s scheduled worlds (unless you use the fake workout world hack), and it doesn’t include event-only routes.
• The Companion app’s list could be super convenient in theory, but in practice the list isn’t accurate, with many routes shown as not awarding badges when in fact they do.

Some Zwifters use tools like Zwifthub to track which routes they’ve completed, but that requires manually marking the route as complete. (Which, to be fair, is rather satisfying.)

I’ve included a complete, up-to-date list of all routes with achievement badges below. You can copy and paste this into any spreadsheet if you’d like a list you can print, edit, etc.

Routes Without Badges

Some routes do not have achievement badges:

• Certain Event-Only Routes: Some routes in Zwift are not available for free rides, and thus can only be ridden in official events. While Zwift has been enabling achievement badges for event-only routes in recent years, many older event-only routes don’t have them. Examples include fondo routes like the Gran Fondo, as well as many reverse routes and after-party routes.
• Ride Badge, But No Run Badge: while runners can run on all the “mixed-use” routes in Zwift, most of those routes don’t award an achievement badge for runners.
• Run-Only Routes: Some routes are only available to runners, and thus have no achievement badge for cyclists. These routes always have a running achievement badge, though! Examples include Jon’s Route and Hudson Roll.

A Complete List of Route Badges on Zwift

Here is a complete list of Zwift routes that award an achievement badge (and bonus XP) upon initial completion. Since Zwift awards different badges and different XP amounts for riders vs runners, I’ve created two separate lists: one for routes that award badges when ridden, the other for routes that award badges when run.

Badges marked with an * are event-only routes.

Routes with Ride Achievement Badges

Routes with Running Achievement Badges

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