Wild Northerner Magazine Spring 2018 | Page 56

Heritage Silver Trail Bike Tour

Cycling Destination

Cycling – Heritage – Silver

Historic Town

By Back Roads Bill

For Wild Northerner

As a bicyclist how do you find the best lower-traffic roads and routes here in the north?

When you Google “cycling routes in northern Ontario” you retrieve very little. Scroll down, eventually within the query results, there is an article on urban biking trails including North Bay, Sudbury, Timmins and Manitoulin Island, but what about the hinterland?

One may be closer than you think with a theme that epitomizes our back roads heritage with lots of options. There was a time when the name “Cobalt” resonated around the world.