“Coast Crusher” Route Details (Watopia)
One of the longer routes released with Zwift’s October 2023 southern coast expansion, “Coast Crusher” is the only route covering the new road in both directions, hitting all eight sprint segments.
One of the longer routes released with Zwift’s October 2023 southern coast expansion, “Coast Crusher” is the only route covering the new road in both directions, hitting all eight sprint segments.
Route Basics
Length: 34.7 km (21.6 miles)
Elevation: 174m (571′)
+8.1km (5.0 miles) lead-in with 37m (121′) elevation
Map: Watopia
ZIMetrics
Rating: 19.0/100 🛈
Time Estimates 🛈
4 W/kg: 58 minutes
3 W/kg: 63 minutes
2 W/kg: 75 minutes
Start & Finish
Begins near Jungle pens with a lead-in to the Stoneway Sprint arch. Ends at the same arch.
Format: Point-to-Point
Restriction: Level 10+
Ride Achievement Badge: 684 XP
Run Achievement Badge: none
Strava Segments
Bike Selection
This route is very flat, so aero rules the day. Get the most slippery frame and wheels you can afford! See Fastest Frames and Wheels By Level >
Route Description
Begin near the Jungle pens and travel down to the new coastal road, hitting the forward version of all four sprints as you ride the new road toward Fuego Flats. Here they are, in order:
Make your way through the maritime village of Googie Springs then up to Saddle Springs in the desert for a quick turnaround at the LAX roundabout. You’re past the halfway mark!
Descend through the concrete tunnel and it’s time to come back on the coastal road in the opposite direction, hitting all four sprints once more as you travel through the Evergreen Coast section (watch for Sasquatch!), Cuidad la Cumbre, and the Mayan-themed settlement of Sandy Coast. Your ride ends at the final sprint (Stoneway Sprint Reverse).
Ridealong Video
Looks solid for doing intervals – good spacing of the sprints
684xp? That seems really, really high for 8km
Oh, never mind… that 8k is just the lead in!
That’s the lead in.
The route is 34 km long. 😁
I dont like how it abruptly ends at the dirt in the jungle, i would like to see a full clean loop
I sort of hoped they’d get rid of the jungle dirt in the update and replacing it with tarmac. I fully understand the appeal of gravel in real life, but I don’t understand its point in game whatsoever.
Agreed
Agreed as well. They should allow a fast bike change for non racing if they’re not going to pave the jungle so you could at least cover it on a more suitable bike
Agreed. I thought I was done the jungle forever when I knocked off the Uberpretzel. as my last-to-complete route. (Except for the lead-in to the Alpe). But here it is again. Sigh. Except for when it’s used on Tour of Watopia stages, the jungle has always been a ghost town. Take the hint Zwift. Break out the heavy equipment and pave it already. I’d happily ride the jungle on a regular basis if it wasn’t for the gravel.
It’s completely ruined the jungle section of Watopia for me. Other than trying a couple of these new routes, I haven’t ridden that area in a couple of years. Just a dreadful experience when you seem to be riding in quicksand.
consider mid-ride bike change
I did the sugar cookie route today, switched for MTB for the jungle section, much faster. Will see how it goes tomorrow and report back!
There are indeed two other routes which complete the loop.
I, on the other hand, wished this route extended all the way to cover Fuego Flats (the whole Tempus Fugit route) for a truly long flat excursion which can be used to clock mileage for events!
Agreed, Mike. I’d like to see this route loop around the Jungle, so you could keep doing loops of the route if you wanted to.
#pavethejungle
Hate the gravel. Expect most riders will avoid that section.
just to let you know that the link to this route directs to shorelines-and-summits one. I had to manually enter the URL
Fixed. Thanks!
I just completed the Coast Crusher route as a free ride and Zwift subsequently credited me with completing stage 5 of the 2023 Tour of WATOPIA!
don’t understand the down voting on this one? ToW is on demand this round, so this is by design
I just upvoted it to make it only -1. 🙂
do we need a gravel bike for this course?
Nah I would go Aero Bike and some big deep section wheels. The lead in is dirt road, but the rest is smooth, flat tarmac
#PavetheJungle
Did this route in ToW yesterday. It’s fantastic. Looking forward to riding and training on the other new routes. Well done Zwift👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Agreed, and it’s got some nice rolling gradient changes so it is not just pan flat.
Did this route in DIRT 505 ride on Saturday. Beautiful scenery but upon return in the jungle the group was split up in two (one group to the left, the other to the right). My group (right) lost the ride leader. We met them sort of half way through the jungle and expected to be reunited again for second Coast route, but then we got stuck in eternal Jungle loop…
So ZwiftHQ, still some bugs to fix I guess… 🙂 Btw, I’m not a jungle lover at all, but when realizing we were stuck I quickly swapped to MTB and that made a HUGE difference! Was back in the group in no time and then went off the front without even trying…
The route ends before you return to the jungle and so you were just free riding at that point with no chosen route. Seems that Zwift allocated some of you to the anti-clockwise jungle loop and some to the clockwise loop.
It’s annoying as for a route like this there should be a point which defaults to sending you back along the route you’ve just come from, rather than just having you ride off the end of the route.
Makes sense. But that means this route is not very suitable for events which go for longer time/distance than the route is. But more for ride organizers to take into account 🙂
Did this route this morning but it was 26.5 miles as opposed to the published 21.5 miles??
21.5 is without the lead in. But it has a long lead in! See details above.
savage route for racing. breakaway artist’s dream. long route with lots of ramps = lots of surges = lots of matches burned, eventually someone will crack!
Was it my imagination or did they actually pave some of the jungle (or did I just not notice the turnoff to the new road)? I thought coming out of the cave at the bottom of the jungle that was dirt, but now it’s paved?
Never mind. Watched the video and see mistake. Was too focused on the group in the ToW today and didn’t see where we turned. 😝
No – you’re not imagining things! If you’re on the Jungle Circuit (fwd), the area between the tunnel at the bottom and the lap arch used to have a bit of cracked pavement before it turns to dirt. That cracked pavement is now smooth pavement.
Lead this route and when we came back to the jungle, we got split into two groups. Then we just ended up doing endless loops of the jungle until the ride was over. It’s a major glitch that’s happening on group rides. Even after the event was over, no direction in companion app to navigate out.
That’s not a glitch, it’s because the route ends before the jungle. You are then just free riding and so some will have been sent clockwise around the jungle and other anti-clockwise. You should have been able to each manually navigate out of the jungle as on any free ride, that is not ideal for a group ride when you need everyone to do that. Zwift really should have a single default that takes everyone the same way, or they should amend the route so that you continue to the jungle, cross the bridge in the middle and then return to the south coast road.
Our group got split, I think that part is a glitch. Definitely will not be doing this route on group rides anymore. Companion app showed U turn after the event but that’s it. I feel there are definitely glitches going on. Route is nice for free ride, but leaders should stay away from it for group rides, which is a shame.
It’s a bit of a shame that you get “stuck in the jungle” at the end of the loop.
They should’ve at least made you turn back into the route after a jungle loop but quite honestly they should’ve just made sort of a roundabound at the temples just like they did on both sides of Tempus Fugit.
I agree. More could’ve been done with this route. Shame group rides can’t occur on it.
Agreed. Never too late for them to fix it
Isn’t the route also very good for a ride with a tt frame, since you get the additional xp with the 8 banners? Or are there routes that are more worthwhile?
Good point, lots of XP available! Sprinter’s Paradise in Makuri Islands is similar… 4 sprints per ~12km lap…
When the route finishes at Stoneway Sprint Reverse, is it possible to do a U-Turn and just carry on doing the course in reverse?
Seems that this would be a good way to extend ride without having to go gravel in the Jungle.
Sure, go for it!
I did this the other day, im fairly new to zwift. But it took me to the jungle loop and not the coast so i couldn’t do it. Im only level 4, is that why? I was just doing a ‘just ride’
Yeah, level 4 is why. Odd that it even let you pick it as a route option… hmm…
Yeah it was on the main page as a ‘just ride’. Loaded it up and I realized after the supposed lead in that i was in fact, in a jungle and not on the coast haha. Thanks for clarification. I need to level up faster. I have only had zwift for a couple of weeks.
A roundabout with start pens at the bottom of Mayan Mountainside would be helpful here! 8km lead-in is crazy :p