Shanghai Cycling Route Recommendations: Great Places to Ride

Spring and autumn are the best seasons for cycling and sightseeing. The weather is mild and the sunshine is warm and gentle. Shanghai, a modern metropolis full of attractions, is a great place to go for a cycling trip. It’s a great way for busy urbanites to relax and take in the city’s unique sights. Here are some of the best cycling routes in Shanghai.

Route One

Huangpu River – Old City Shrine – Yu Garden – Lujiazui

The 2,500-meter-long riverside avenue in Shanghai was completed in 1997. From Taidong Road to Dongchang Road, from the West Bund to Pudong, the river is a landscape project integrating sightseeing, greening, transportation and service facilities. It consists of a waterfront platform, sloped greening, semi-underground compartments and landscape roads.

Leaning on the river, the two banks of the East Pudong River compete with each other, and the combination of the movement and stillness of the Bund and the World Expo architectural complex gives people endless reverie, giving people a feeling of picking up the scenery. It floats like a ribbon on the east coast of the Huangpu River and is known as the new Bund in Pudong.

This is a landscape project along the river that integrates sightseeing, greening, transportation and service facilities, focusing on the urban ecological environment and functions. The avenue consists of a waterfront platform, sloped greening, semi-underground vehicle bodies and landscape roads. Facing the 21st century is Shanghai’s East Bund.

Route Two

Oriental Pearl Tower – Lujiazui – Shanghai Ocean Aquarium

Baoshan’s ecological trail mainly passes through Gucun Town, Luodai Town, Luojing Town and Guangdong. The overall planning of the trail is to adopt the form of a forest belt, establishing a 2-meter-wide flexible trail journey within the green belt. Green space is mainly based on forests. Tall, fast-growing trees and evergreen trees are combined, with ground cover plants planted under the forest.

Through the new construction or renovation of existing green spaces, as well as the ingenious use of natural rivers, farmland villages and road green belts, the surrounding areas of the trail have initially integrated the existing green landscapes along the way. Through its further construction, people can faintly feel the charm and huge role of the future green trail.

Route Three

Eco-Leisure Tourism Route

Speaking of good places for eco-leisure tourism, we have to mention the city park located between Ring Lake Road 2 and 3. It is both a comprehensive theme park for green and intelligent ecology and a demonstration sponge park for the construction of sponge cities. The park is full of green trees and intertwined rivers, closely connected with the surrounding communities, integrating people’s lives, work and the region’s large ecosystem.

There are trails through the forest for walking, and getting closer to nature. There is an open waterfront square, showcasing the rich character of the countryside, and providing comfortable rest. You won’t want to miss this comfortable and peaceful “nearby park”!

Shuyuanrenjia is known as the leisure paradise of the new Lingang area. It is fresh and natural, far from the hustle and bustle of the city, and is a stylish farmhouse.

Here, every brick and tile, every grass and tree is imbued with a strong Jiangnan flavor. Here, resort lodging, sightseeing and tea tasting, rural picking, children’s outdoor activities, traditional cuisine, Zen meditation, everything you could want is available….

Route Four

Red Tourism Route

The Nichen Revolutionary History Museum is located in Nichen Town. It has a glorious revolutionary history and excellent revolutionary traditions, making it the Yan’an of Pudong. Here, the nationwide Nichen Uprising took place, and the first shot of the Anti-Japanese War was fired here, opening up the first Anti-Japanese Revolutionary Base.

The museum consists of three parts: a large memorial square, a historical exhibition hall and the Nichen Ode Hall. It truly showcases the heroic deeds of the people of Nichen who sacrificed their lives for the revolution in various revolutionary periods, as well as the brilliant achievements of the people of Nichen in the period of construction and development, under the guidance of the red spirit, who bravely stood at the forefront and strived for excellence.

The “Original Aspiration Park” is located at the intersection of Laolu Highway and Yinshui South Road, covering an area of 16.13 mu. It aims to create a Party-building learning site integrating ecology, leisure and experience. The entire park is mainly divided into five functional sections: learning, thinking, practicing, understanding, and acting. There are oath squares, century-old trails, original aspiration roads, soaring China and red corridors in the spatial areas.

The “Original Aspiration Park” is a place for Party members to return to their original aspirations and missions, conduct ceremonial education, serve the surrounding residents in carrying out various cultural and sports activities, and is a carrier for new era civilized practices, Party discipline and integrity, and Party member learning education.

Route Five

Hengsha Island Circumnavigation Cycling Route

Hengsha Wharf – Xinmeng Road – Xinlian Road – Dongbin Road – Dongjiang Road – Fumin Sha Road – Hengsha Wharf

Features and highlights: The cycling route is 31km long, located on Hengsha Island at the mouth of the Yangtze River. You can reach the island by boat from Wusong Wharf, where you can rent bicycles. Small bridges, flowing water, and farmhouses are embedded in the vast expanse of rice paddies, fish ponds, orange groves, crab ponds and seedlings, offering the most ecological rural scenery in Shanghai.

Route Six

West Bund Cycling Route

Miajiang Road – Jiangbin Road – Longteng Avenue – Maritime Tower

Features and highlights: The cycling route is about 6km long, from the Huangpu Bund to the Xuhui Bund, passing by the West Bund Camp, with its modern style, and experiencing the international and modern Bund culture. There is also the Internet celebrity bridge landscape that has appeared in many movies and TV dramas at the Maritime Tower.

Route Seven

Baoshan Cycling Route

Hutai Road – Wenshui Road Animation Street – Baoshan International Folk Arts Expo – Gucun Park – Meilan Lake – Baoshan Temple

Features and highlights: The cycling route is about 29km long, with one-stop services including dining, entertainment and shopping.

Route Eight

Pudong Bund Cycling Route

Nanpu Bridge – Yangpu Bridge

Features and highlights: The cycling route is close to the Huangpu River, about 20km long, with a plastic cycling path, and multiple cycling stations providing rest and water replenishment services for cycling enthusiasts. When passing through the bustling Lujiazui area, the characteristic restaurants and cafes on both sides of the road are perfect for a short break.