“Handful of Gravel” Route Details (Watopia)
Introduced for Tour of Watopia 2022, this route covers the upper half of the Jungle Circuit and is one of the few routes in Zwift which offers a route badge while being event-only.
Route Basics
Length: 6.1 km (3.8 miles)
Elevation: 75m (246′)
+4.1km (2.5 miles) lead-in with 19m (62′) elevation
Map: Watopia
ZIMetrics
Rating: 4.8/100 🛈
Time Estimates 🛈
lead-in + first lap
4 W/kg: 14 minutes
3 W/kg: 16 minutes
2 W/kg: 19 minutes
Start & Finish
This loop begins and ends at a stone arch in the Jungle, located on the descent between the Rope Bridge and the Mayan Bridge Cutoff when traveling in a clockwise direction.
Format: Loop
Restriction: Event Only
Ride Achievement Badge: 125 XP
Run Achievement Badge: 125 XP
Sprint & KQOM Segments |
| None |
Strava Segments
Bike Selection
Your fastest bike on this dirt loop will be a gravel bike – learn more here.
Route Description
Route profile by ZwiftHub – the place to plan and track your route achievements!
The route begins at a large stone arch located 4.1km from the start pens, but free riders will spawn just before the arch.
Once you’re through the start arch you’ll decend the dirt a bit before turning right onto the Mayan Bridge road. This twisty cutoff road is a mixture of dirt, stone, and wood, and takes you across the river to the other side of the Jungle Circuit.
Turn right at the end of the cutoff and you’re back on the Jungle Circuit, riding uphill. Wave to the sloth, cross the rope bridge, and descend to the stone arch/start finish. All done!
zwift really ‘pushed the boat out’ on this one 🙄
Was excited when I saw the name of the route as if there would be new gravel/dirt routes available. How many ways can they reuse the same roads…
Yeah, it does kinda feel like they are just creating new routes to give all of us badge hunters out there another thing to do eh? They can’t keep doing it forever otherwise the route list is just going to become a huge list full of not-really-that-useful routes.
Climby enough for the Crux?
Whoa!
There’s gravel wheelsets?
Missed that…..
Rode Jungle loop today and thought there was a new powerup drop, couldn’t see an arch though; this was at the location of the start / finish of this course.
Wow zwift way to go. You made a route that’s really just a segment inside a route and then locked it by making it event only forcing anyone that wants the badge to participate in an event they may not be interested in.
Dick move.
Is that really that big of a hardship on you to get the badge? The event will likely have events every hour, and you can just ignore the other people if you don’t care. The route is so short anyways, it’s barely a challenge at all to complete it and you’ve likely already ridden those roads several times before, so adding event only makes it a little more interesting.
You don’t want to get double xp double length power ups and experience new routes with hundreds of people?
Yay?
I don’t think I am alone in the category of: “I wish they would make some new offroad trails.”
What’s the point of the mountain bike?
with these new wheels good question
What’s the point of the mountain bike in the first place? MTB is for bike handling and skills, and not just for training the legs. But I’m not cycling in the jungle since they released the different rolling resistance for dirt. Just useless imho.
The point of the mountain bike is for dirt and just because you don’t like dirt doesn’t mean the bike for it is useless
Except now gravel bikes with the best gravel wheels are faster than the MTB on dirt now.
And I just recenlty bought the Epic S-Works. Waste of money (drops), it appears…
This one is missing in the Veloviewer Zwift Insider leaderboard.
So are other event only routes that have a badge. A few are in the leaderboard but doing it as an event won’t match the segment. And some the existing rebel route segment created before the event only route was created will match.
So I purchased a gravel bike and wheels for this and Zwift doesn’t allow me to use them in the ToW? What a fail!
Is there any sign of this being added as a normal route? Not sure why the other rebel routes were added ut not this one?
“The route begins at a large stone arch located 4.1km from the start pens, but free riders will spawn just before the arch”
Free riders? 
hello.
Can we do it solo on running mode?
Can’t made on TOW…. 😥
How to do this route now there are now events on this route (anymore)?
*now =no
Great resource here.
https://zwifthacks.com/app/events/?route==Handful%20Of%20Gravel
Hi,
I can find this one on the Hub but not on my smartphone-Zwift??
Any idea, anyone?
I see this running badge is “event only”. Will they ever have the event again? I don’t see it on the schedule.
I don’t get it, is it Event only or rebel?
This page says “Your fastest bike on this dirt loop will be a gravel bike with the ENVE or Roval gravel wheels.”, but zwifterbikes lists an MTB as the fastest choice. Which one is correct?
I’d go gravel. See this recent post: https://zwiftinsider.com/jungle-speed-tests/