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    Rebel Routes: Spiral Into the Volcano

    Eric Schlange
    By Eric Schlange
    May 7, 2019
    LAST UPDATED January 24, 2024
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    UPDATE: this route is now an official Zwift route, added to the game to host the final stage of Tour de Zwift 2024! See official route page >

    “Rebel Routes” are Zwift rides which are not available on Zwift’s routes list, thus requiring manual navigation.

    See all rebel route posts >

    The reward for your rebel ride? Exploring a new route, knowing you’ve gone where few Zwifters have gone before. And a Strava segment rank in the tens or hundreds instead of the thousands!

    Route Description

    This is a long flat route which ends in a climb up the Volcano. It is most comparable to the Volcano Climb After Party event-only route, except Spiral Into the Volcano has an extra 10 miles of flat before the volcano climb.

    If you follow this route on a map you’ll see how it was named: an ever-tightening counter-clockwise spiral which culminates in the spiral climb up the volcano.

    We begin at the downtown start/finish in the reverse direction. Ride around the Volcano Flat to Ocean Blvd then Fuego Flats for a nice flat run through the desert which includes the longest timed “sprint” on Zwift.

    Ride through downtown Watopia and around Volcano Flat a second time, but this time when we get on Ocean Blvd we’ll take that all the way back through downtown Watopia. The spiral begins!

    Once more through downtown and around Volcano Flat, then hang a left at the Italian Villas to go over The Esses and back to the Volcano. We’ll loop once around the volcano (one lap of Volcano Circuit CCW), then hang a left for the Volcano Climb finish. The route ends at the top of the Volcano as you cross under the KOM banner.

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    This route is quite flat, with nothing more than short pitches or rollers until the final Volcano KOM finish which is 2.3 miles (3.6km) long at an average gradient of 3%.

    Route details:
    Distance: 55.6km (34.6 miles)
    Elevation Gain: 324m (1,064′)

    Getting Started

    When freeriding, select the “Volcano Flat” route to begin–this reduces your number of manual turns required to just 6. You will spawn just before the downtown start banner.

    IMPORTANT: you must ride down through the banner then flip a u-turn and ride through the banner in the reverse direction to begin the route!

    Turn by Turn

    There are many intersections of this route, but typically only 6 manual turns are required. All other intersections should be routed correctly by default, but sometimes Zwift changes the default turns when you’re deep into a randonneuring rebel route, so stay vigilant.

    Here is the complete list of turns:

    1. Right to Volcano Circuit
    2. Right to Volcano Circuit CCW
    3. Right to Volcano Circuit
    4. Right (Straight) to Italian Villas
    5. Right to 360 Bridge
    6. Right to Sequoia Circle
    7. Left (Straight) to Sequoia Circle
    8. Right to Epic KOM
    9. Left to Desert Flats
    10. Right (Straight) to Desert Flats
    11. Left to Downtown
    12. Straight (Right) to Ocean Blvd
    13. Right to Downtown
    14. Right to Downtown
    15. Right to Volcano Circuit
    16. Right to Volcano Circuit CCW
    17. Right to Volcano Circuit
    18. Right (Straight) to Italian Villas
    19. Right to 360 Bridge
    20. Right to Sequoia Circle
    21. Left (Straight) to Sequoia Circle
    22. Left (Straight) to Downtown
    23. Left (Straight) to Downtown
    24. Right to Downtown
    25. Right to Volcano Circuit
    26. Right to Volcano Circuit CCW
    27. Right to Volcano Circuit
    28. Right (Straight) to Italian Villas
    29. Left to Sprint
    30. Left (Straight) to Sprint
    31. Left to Volcano Circuit
    32. Right to Volcano Circuit CCW
    33. Right to Volcano Circuit
    34. Left to Volcano Circuit CCW
    35. Left (Straight) to Volcano
    36. Left (Straight) to Volcano KOM

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