How to Create a Cycling Map and Find New Routes on MapMyRide

MapMyRide lets you plan a cycling route on a map and discover routes others have ridden near you. To do both, you need an account and a browser with JavaScript enabled — the site explicitly requires JavaScript "for the full interactive experience," so route creation and the interactive route finder won't work with it turned off. The homepage offers two entry points: Create a Cycling Map for planning your own route, and Find a Ride Near You for browsing by location.

Create a Cycling Map: What to Expect

The homepage lists "Create a Cycling Map" as a primary action, alongside "Find and Discover New Cycling Routes." The general workflow for a route planner of this kind:

1. Create an account (the homepage has a "Create Account" link) or sign in.
2. Open the map creation tool from the "Create a Cycling Map" entry point.
3. Set a start point — typically by searching an address or clicking the map.
4. Draw or click along roads to build the route; the planner snaps your path to rideable roads.
5. Check the distance and elevation the tool calculates as you go.
6. Save the route to your account so you can ride it or share it.

Expected result: a saved route you can pull up on your phone for turn-by-turn use. Common snag: if the map area is blank or buttons don't respond, JavaScript is almost certainly disabled — enable it and reload before troubleshooting anything else.

Find New Cycling Routes by Location

The "Find a Ride Near You" section is organized by US state, from Alabama through Wyoming. Each state link opens routes in that area. This is the fastest path when you know roughly where you'll ride:

• Pick your state from the list to see local route options.
• Use it before a trip or move to see what's rideable in an unfamiliar area.
• Combine it with route creation: find a route near your destination, then adapt it in the map tool.

Beyond Route Planning

MapMyRide also bundles training and motivation features the homepage highlights: live tracking (share your ride location in real time), audio coaching, performance insights, cycling challenges, training plans, and leaderboards with rewards. These sit alongside the mapping tools rather than replacing them — useful if you want one app for both planning and tracking.

Free vs. MVP Subscription

The homepage promotes MVP — "The Premium App Subscription for Cyclists" — as a paid tier separate from the base app. The page does not list MVP's price or exactly which features are gated behind it, so check the MVP page in-app or on the site before subscribing. Treat the free experience as the default assumption for basic mapping, and verify premium-only features directly rather than guessing.

Quick Decision Guide

If you only need occasional route planning, the free tools plus a JavaScript-enabled browser cover the core task. If live tracking, coaching, and structured training are central to how you ride, compare MVP's feature list against what you'd actually use before paying.