“Canopies and Coastlines” Route Details (Watopia)
This route has the toughest lead-in of the eight routes released with Zwift’s October 2023 southern coast expansion, but once you finish the lead-in you can almost say, “It’s all downhill from here…”
Route Basics
Length: 22.6 km (14.0 miles)
Elevation: 124m (407′)
+5.1km (3.2 miles) lead-in with 122m (400′) elevation
Map: Watopia
ZIMetrics
Rating: 13.9/100 🛈
Time Estimates 🛈
4 W/kg: 41 minutes
3 W/kg: 45 minutes
2 W/kg: 55 minutes
Start & Finish
Events begin at the desert start pens with a longish lead-in to the Titans Grove KOM arch. Ends at Stoneway Sprint.
Format: Point-to-Point
Restriction: Level 10+
Ride Achievement Badge: 444 XP
Run Achievement Badge: none
Strava Segments
Canopies and Coastlines
Titans Grove Reverse Lead-In from Desert Pens
Bike Selection
Aero is your best choice here, since there is very little climbing. See Fastest Bike Frames and Wheels at Each Zwift Level >
Route Description
Begin at the desert pens with a lead-in to the top of the Titans Grove KOM Reverse, where this point-to-point route officially begins. Once you hit the top of Titans Grove KOM you’ve completed the toughest part of the route!
Descend from the top of the Titans KOM and make your way out of Titans Grove and over to Saddle Sprints, where you’ll turn right at the LAX roundabout to head to Watopia’s new southern coast road.
From here it’s a flattish ride along the coastal road, riding through the various towns and hitting each of the four sprints along the way. The route ends at the Stoneway Sprint arch.
Ridealong Video
Nice to have a new route, but it felt as if it was done on the cheap. Lots of mist, areas that seemed familiar from other routes.
Just completed the route.
it said 269hm that’s more than 10% more than the route stats on this page.
You have to add the lead in, another 5km
This post was ment to be posted on the big ring route.
@Eric Schlange please delete my post
Long lead-ins are bogus. It’s a virtual world. Stupid to have a lead in. Just make the route.
Also frustrated with this being the 5th or more update in one month. I think I went ½ year with just one. And now my 8 gray badges finally have names that didn’t for the last month 🤷
I was literally two long rides (the Uber pretzel and London PR Full) from completing every visible route in Zwift. Back to 10 🤦♂️.
Complaining about too many updates to zwift? And complaining about new road and routes to do? That is a first!
It’s just frustrating to have an update every other day when I go to load the app. Sometimes they fail and have to reload or it freezes the app. it seems like I have had more updates in one month than all of the past three years. And they are finicky to load.
As for the routes, I don’t really care. It was in gest. I was nearly complete with all the routes. It’s like being on a long ride and or hike and thinking you’re almost there but discover your mileage error 😀
The whole “lead-in” thing is sort of strange. But it is what it is: part of the game. The most extreme example is probably Innsbruck where a route starts at the top of the main climb. When riding, unless you teleport to a rider already on the climb, you need to ride to the top just to start. But in an event you can actually start at the top and still get route credit. London Surrey Hills also comes to mind, where you climb Kite Hill as the lead-in (which caused me confusion because the first time I did it I bailed before climbing Kite Hill the 2nd time, thinking I’d completed all of the climbs).
IRL lead-ins are common since I need to ride to the start of rides, and pro races often have “neutral zones” not included on the main stats.
That’s where meetups are handy. They spawn further into the ride and remove the lead-in
Looks like a nice alternative to Sand and Sequoias reversed. But the best part of that older route is it doesn’t have a sprint, as I can’t resist wasting my legs any time I see that little green pylon or whatever it is, and then my cruise speed tanks for a while.
Looking forward to this one, but not the sprints.
(I know in theory I can skip them. The problem is I… um… can’t. Let a Clydesdale have something.)
Hi Eric.
First of all, thank for the new maps of the new routes. Could it be possible to add the elevation of the lead-in in routes like this one?
I just finished Canopies and Coastline as my Stage Five of the ToW. I really like this route, even the hilly lead-in. The route is colorful, lots of visuals to keep me engaged and enough sprints to keep me challenged. I have been riding Zwift for a very long time and I am happy to see how far it has come along. Good job. Ride On!
I agree — massive kudos to the Zwift world builders. It was remarkably eclectic but fits in seamlessly with other parts of Watopia. If my first day on Zwift had been today, I’d have not felt there was a striking contrast. And I am super-impressed with their creativity in mixing different terrains, ecosystems, and culture.
And they even teased us with a blocked off turnoff — an alternate route to Epic KOM to be added? I’ve been misled many times in the past (like expecting a France expansion).
Zwift is so much more fun and engaging than it has ever been. It is not perfect, but it makes the hours on the trainer go by a lot faster.
Ride on!
The map at the top of this one is the wrong route. Just letting someone know.
Weird, not sure how I broke that. But it’s fixed now!
I think the in game route starts with the incline of Titan before going down. Unlike what this map suggests.
edit: noticed the language after but you really have to prepare mentally and physically before a race!
Yes, the animated route includes the lead in. The route profile from ZwiftHacks only shows the actual route after the lead in. (Also, our written descriptions include lead in info…)