Route library
Routes you can plan — or ride with us
Rides out of Delhi and the NCR, from a half-day Aravalli loop to a two-week Himalayan run. Every route below has the distance, the road, the fuel stops and the best season written down in plain language, so any rider can plan it. Ride them on your own, or come do one with a briefed ROAR group.
By season: October picks · where to ride in the monsoon · winter rides
Close to the city
Out and back in a day or a single night — the shortest rides in the library and a good first outing with the group.
Delhi to Sohna's Hot Springs & Aravalli Backroads
A half-day loop through the Aravalli hills south of Gurugram — old sulphur hot springs, quiet ridge roads, and almost no traffic once you're off the highway.
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → ShortDelhi to Panipat's Battlefields
The field where three empire-deciding battles were fought — the Kabuli Bagh mosque, the Panipat war memorial, and an easy highway run north.
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → ShortDelhi to Loharu Fort
A crumbling princely-state fort in the dry Haryana-Rajasthan borderlands, with a Mirza Ghalib family connection and almost no other visitors.
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → ShortAravalli Backroads: Mangar, Damdama & Dhauj
A half-day loop through the quiet side of the NCR Aravallis.
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → ShortDelhi Wetland Loop: Sultanpur & Bhindawas
A flat, easy loop to two of the region's best bird wetlands — Sultanpur National Park, and Bhindawas, the largest in Haryana — with a crumbling Mughal-era…
Best Nov–Feb
See the route → ShortDelhi to Rakhigarhi
Rakhigarhi, in Hisar district, is one of the largest known cities of the Indus Valley Civilisation — older than and larger than many better-known sites,…
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Morni Hills & Tikkar Tal
Morni Hills, just above Panchkula, is the only hill station in Haryana — a low Shivalik ridge of pine and scrub topping out around 1,220 m.
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Nahan, Suketi Fossil Park & Trilokpur
Nahan, at about 930 m in Sirmaur, is a compact, tidy Shivalik town of tanks and colonial streets.
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Kurukshetra
Kurukshetra, around Thanesar in Haryana, is the landscape the Mahabharata places the great war on.
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Farrukhnagar & Mewat
Farrukhnagar, barely 40 km from Delhi, is a small walled town founded in 1732 as a salt-trade centre — it still has the Sheesh Mahal (a mirror-work…
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → ShortDelhi to Sardhana
Sardhana, a small town north of Meerut, was the seat of Begum Samru — a dancer who married a European mercenary, inherited his troops, converted to…
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Dhosi Hill
Dhosi Hill is an extinct volcano — a lone 700-odd-metre cone rising off the plains where Haryana, Rajasthan and the Aravalli tail meet, near Narnaul.
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Hansi & Tosham
Hansi, west of Hisar, is a walled town built around Asigarh (Prithviraj Chauhan's fort), with four surviving gates, the Char Qutub dargah, and a Jain-temple…
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Hisar & Agroha
Hisar was founded by Firoz Shah Tughlaq in 1354, and his palace complex — Gujari Mahal, a pillared hall, a stepped tank — still stands, half-ruined,…
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Bairat (Viratnagar)
Bairat — today's Viratnagar, in Jaipur district — was a Mauryan regional capital, and it holds two of Ashoka's rock edicts, including the Bhabru…
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Pinjore
Pinjore, just before Kalka on the Himachal edge, is best known for the terraced Yadavindra (Pinjore) Gardens — a 17th-century Mughal charbagh on…
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → ShortDelhi to Surajkund & Anangpur
A stepped medieval reservoir attributed to the Tomar kings, an old dam upstream, and quiet ridge lanes — an easy morning loop just south of Delhi.
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → ShortDelhi to Murthal — the Highway Dhabas
The classic Delhi breakfast ride — a fast run up the Grand Trunk Road to a strip of highway dhabas famous for stuffed paranthas, and home before the heat.
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → ShortDelhi to Narnaul & its Sur–Mughal Tombs
A small Haryana town full of sixteenth-century tombs — the tomb of Sher Shah Suri's grandfather, a water palace in a stepped tank, and a Mughal minister's pavilion.
Best Oct–Mar
See the route →Mountain weekends
One or two nights away. Your first hill roads, cooler air, and quiet places most riders drive straight past on the way to somewhere busier.
Delhi to Lansdowne
A good first hill ride. Lansdowne is a small, orderly Garhwal cantonment at about 1,700 m, sitting in oak and pine forest above Kotdwar. The ride is mostly easy…
Best Oct–Jun
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Kanatal & Dhanaulti
Everyone rides to Mussoorie and sits in its traffic.
Best Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Chakrata & Deoban
Chakrata is an old British-era cantonment that tourism mostly forgot — no big market, no traffic, just a quiet hill town at around 2,100 m.
Best Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Chopta & Tungnath
Chopta is a string of meadows at about 2,900 m with a road running right through it and a huge view of the Kedarnath range.
Best Apr–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Khirsu
Khirsu is a small village above Pauri that almost no rider bothers to reach — which is the whole point.
Best Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Kausani
Kausani is a small ridge town in Kumaon at about 1,900 m that Gandhi once called the Switzerland of India.
Best Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Binsar
Binsar is a small wildlife sanctuary on a forested ridge above Almora, topping out near 2,400 m.
Best Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Pithoragarh & Chaukori
Pithoragarh sits in the wide Soar valley at about 1,500 m, the last big town before the Nepal border and the Byas and Darma high valleys.
Best Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Tirthan Valley
The Tirthan Valley runs off the Kullu highway at Aut and almost nobody turns in.
Best Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Bir Billing
Bir sits in the Kangra valley at about 1,400 m, backed by the Dhauladhar range.
Best Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Barot Valley
Barot sits at about 1,900 m on the Uhl river in Mandi district, reached by a narrow road that peels off the Jogindernagar ridge and drops through forest into the valley.
Best Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Dalhousie & Khajjiar
Dalhousie is a small colonial hill town spread over five low ridges at about 2,000 m, laid out by the British in the 1850s and still full of stone churches,…
Best Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Narkanda & Hatu Peak
Narkanda is a ridge town at about 2,700 m on the Hindustan-Tibet road, an hour and a half past Shimla and far quieter.
Best Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route → WeekendDelhi to McLeodganj & Triund
McLeodganj, above Dharamshala in the Kangra valley, is the seat of the Dalai Lama and a Tibetan town wedged under the near-vertical Dhauladhar wall.
Best Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Gwaldam & Wan
Gwaldam sits at about 1,600 m on the seam between Garhwal and Kumaon, an old tea-and-orchard town looking straight at Trishul and Nanda Ghunti.
Best Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Kartik Swami
Kartik Swami is a tiny shrine to Kartikeya perched on a knife-edge ridge at about 3,050 m, south of Rudraprayag.
Best Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Jageshwar & Abbott Mount
Jageshwar, near Almora at about 1,870 m, is a cluster of more than a hundred stone temples from the 7th to 12th centuries, packed along a stream in a dark grove…
Best Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Gairsain & Dudhatoli
Gairsain, at about 1,750 m in central Garhwal, was declared Uttarakhand's summer capital and given an assembly building at Bhararisain — but it is still a…
Best Apr–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Sitlakhet & Syahi Devi
Sitlakhet (Sheetlakhet) is a quiet ridge at about 1,830 m near Almora — pine forest, apple and peach orchards, a KMVN and very little else.
Best Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Nachiketa Tal
Nachiketa Tal is a small, still lake at about 2,430 m in the forest above Uttarkashi, ringed by oak and rhododendron with a tiny temple on the shore.
Best Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Shangarh & the Sainj Valley
The Sainj Valley is the quiet middle sister of Tirthan and Kullu, running up into the Great Himalayan National Park.
Best Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Sarahan & the Bhimakali Temple
Sarahan, at about 2,165 m above the Sutlej, was the old summer capital of the Bushahr kingdom.
Best Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Karsog, Janjehli & Shikari Devi
The Karsog valley sits in inner Mandi, off the main tourist lines — a country of old Kath-Kuni temples (Mamleshwar, Kamaksha), apple orchards and…
Best Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Renuka Lake & Haripurdhar
Renuka Lake in Sirmaur is the largest natural lake in Himachal — a forested, D-shaped water said to trace the outline of the goddess Renuka lying down,…
Best Sep–Jun
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Hanol & the Mahasu Devta Temple
Hanol, on the Tons river where Uttarakhand meets Himachal, is the seat of the Mahasu Devta — four brother-deities of the Jaunsar-Bawar and Trans-Giri highlands.
Best Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Dayara Bugyal
Dayara Bugyal is one of the biggest and most forgiving high meadows in Uttarakhand — a wide, rolling grassland between about 3,000 and 3,600 m above the…
Best Apr–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Lakhamandal & the Kalsi Edict
Lakhamandal, on the Yamuna in the Jaunsar country below Chakrata, is a group of stone temples from around the 6th–8th centuries, the main one a fine Nagara…
Best Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Matogi
Matogi is a small village on the Yamuna in the Jaunsar foothills below Chakrata, near Kata Patthar and about 20 km past Vikasnagar in Dehradun district.
Best Sep–Jun
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Devidhura
Devidhura, on a forested ridge between Almora and Lohaghat, is the seat of Varahi Devi (Barahi Dham) — a temple built around huge boulders, one of which…
Best Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov (Bagwal at Raksha Bandhan, Aug)
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Purnagiri & the Sharda River
Purnagiri (Punyagiri) is a Shakti Peeth on a cliff at about 1,600 m above the Sharda (Kali) river, just past Tanakpur where the plains give way to Kumaon.
Best Oct–Jun
See the route → OutstationDelhi to the Parvati Valley
The Parvati Valley runs east off the Kullu valley at Bhuntar — a deep gorge of deodar, apple orchards and old wood-and-stone hamlets.
Best Apr–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Malana
Malana, in a hanging side-valley above the Parvati, is one of the most insular villages in the Himalaya — it runs its own council in the name of the deity…
Best Apr–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Masrur & Pong Dam
Masrur (Masroor), in the Kangra valley, is a group of 8th-century temples carved from a single sandstone ridge — a monolithic complex, weathered and…
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Rewalsar (Tso Pema)
Rewalsar, in the hills south of Mandi at about 1,360 m, is a small dark lake ringed by shrines of three faiths at once.
Best Oct–Jun
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Naggar Castle & the Roerich Estate
Naggar, on the quiet left bank of the Kullu valley, was the old capital of the Kullu rajas.
Best Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Rohru & the Pabbar Valley
The Pabbar valley, beyond Shimla and Kotkhai, is deep apple country — orchards to the ridgelines, a clear trout river, and old stone-and-timber temples.
Best Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Chamba Town & the Churah Valley
Chamba town, on the Ravi at about 1,000 m, was the seat of one of the oldest hill states in India — it has the painted Rang Mahal, the Bhuri Singh museum…
Best Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Kanvashram
Kanvashram sits on the Malini river in sal forest about 14 km north of Kotdwar, at the very foot of the Garhwal hills.
Best Oct–Jun
See the route → WeekendDelhi to George Everest & Benog
West of Mussoorie's crowded centre, a quiet ridge road runs out past Cloud's End to Park Estate — the ruined house and observatory of Sir George Everest,…
Best Sep–Jun
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Kanasar & Budher
Kanasar, about 25 km past Chakrata, is a clearing in deep deodar forest with a single enormous cedar — among the largest and oldest in India, its girth…
Best Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Devalsari
Devalsari, in the Jaunpur block below Mussoorie, is a small village wrapped in old-growth deodar and oak that the community protects as a conservation and…
Best Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route → WeekendDelhi to the Aglar Valley
Behind Mussoorie, the Aglar river runs through a deep, terraced farming valley that most riders never see — Nainbagh, Thatyur and a string of hamlets on a…
Best Sep–Jun
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Chirbatia
Chirbatia is a scatter of houses on a high ridge on the little-used back road between Kanda (near Rudraprayag) and the Chopta area.
Best Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Ranikhet
A quiet Kumaon cantonment on a pine ridge — a golf course, a working army town, and Himalayan views without the Nainital crowd.
Best Oct–Jun
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Mukteshwar
A quiet Kumaon ridge at 2,170 m — a working Shiva temple, a natural rock arch, a waterfall, and one of the widest Himalayan panoramas in the region.
Best Oct–Jun
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Bhimtal & Sattal
Seven small lakes tucked into Kumaon forest, a short and easy ride from Nainital's crowds — good birding, boating and a genuinely quiet base.
Best Oct–Jun
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Mussoorie & Landour
The old "Queen of the Hills" cantonment above Dehradun — Camel's Back Road, the Landour bazaar, and views into the Doon valley and the snow line beyond.
Best Oct–Jun
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Champawat
The forgotten Chand-dynasty capital on the Kali river border — old stone temples, the Vivekananda ashram at Mayawati, and almost no other riders.
Best Oct–Jun
See the route → WeekendDelhi to New Tehri & the Reservoir
One of Asia's largest reservoirs, a rebuilt hill town on the ridge above it, and a growing water-sports scene — an easy, unusual Garhwal weekend.
Best Oct–Jun
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Shimla
The old summer capital of British India — the Ridge, Christ Church, and a working hill-station bazaar at 2,200 m, easily reached in a day.
Best Oct–Jun
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Kasauli & Chail
Two small colonial-era cantonments above the plains — Kasauli's quiet mall, Chail's cricket ground and palace, and neither one crowded like Shimla.
Best Oct–Jun
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Dharamshala
The Dalai Lama's home in exile, a working Tibetan town below McLeodganj, and the Dhauladhar range rising straight up behind it.
Best Oct–Jun
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Mandi
"The Varanasi of the hills" — a temple town of eighty-plus shrines on the Beas, and the practical gateway to Kullu, Manali and Spiti.
Best Oct–Jun
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Palampur
Himachal's tea country — rolling gardens against the Dhauladhar backdrop, and a far quieter alternative to the Kangra valley's better-known towns.
Best Oct–Jun
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Nainital
The classic Kumaon lake town — a crescent lake at about 2,000 m, a temple on the shore, a ropeway to Himalayan views. Best ridden early, and off-peak.
Best Oct–Jun
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Almora
A Kumaon ridge town with real depth — stone-paved lanes, the Kasar Devi ridge, a 9th-century sun temple and the famous bal mithai — beyond the usual lake-town weekend.
Best Oct–Jun
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Rishikesh & Neelkanth
Where the Ganga leaves the hills — an evening aarti, a forest road up to Neelkanth Mahadev and a sunrise ridge at Kunjapuri. The easiest foothill weekend from Delhi.
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Bageshwar & Baijnath
A Kumaon temple town where the Saryu and Gomti meet, with a twelfth-century Katyuri temple group nearby — a quiet, valley-floor weekend beyond Almora.
Best Oct–Jun
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Srinagar (Garhwal) & Dhari Devi
Garhwal's warm river-valley town on the Char Dham road, with the Dhari Devi shrine upstream on the Alaknanda — a quiet, low-altitude weekend most riders skip.
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Naldehra & Tattapani
A pine ridge and a century-old golf course just beyond Shimla's crowds, and a drop to the Sutlej for natural hot springs on the river bank.
Best Oct–Jun
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Dwarahat & Dunagiri
A Kumaon town of medieval temple groups just beyond Ranikhet, and a forested hill with one of the region's best-loved Devi shrines.
Best Oct–Jun
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Kangra Fort & Jwalaji
One of the oldest hill forts in the Himalaya, a city temple of the goddess, and a Shakti shrine where flames rise from the rock — a foothill weekend with real history.
Best Oct–Jun
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Guptkashi & Ukhimath
Two temple towns on the Mandakini where the deities of Kedarnath and Madmaheshwar spend the winter — the road to Kedarnath without the trek, and the base for Chopta.
Best Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Uttarkashi & Gangnani
A temple and mountaineering town on the Bhagirathi, and a hot spring on the river road toward Harsil and Gangotri — the upper valley without the long ride.
Best Oct–Jun
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Dagshai, Barog & Sanawar
A colonial cantonment with an old jail museum, a station beside the longest tunnel on the Kalka–Shimla line, and pine ridges without Shimla's crowd.
Best Oct–Jun
See the route →Mountain expeditions
Three days and up, real remoteness and real self-reliance — high passes, long fuel gaps and the mountains proper.
Delhi to Jalori Pass & Jibhi
Jibhi sits in the Banjar valley of Himachal — pine forest, waterfalls, old wooden houses, and a fraction of the crowd that Kasol and Manali pull.
Best Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Harsil & Gangotri
Harsil is a small army-and-apple village on the Bhagirathi at about 2,600 m, ringed by deodar and snow peaks, and far quieter than the Char Dham crowds that…
Best May–Jun, Sep–Oct
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Munsiyari
Munsiyari sits at the end of a long road in the far east of Kumaon, at about 2,200 m, with the five Panchachuli peaks rising almost straight out of the valley in…
Best Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Chitkul, Kinnaur
Chitkul is the last inhabited village on the Indian side of this valley, at about 3,450 m, reached by the old Hindustan–Tibet Road along the Sutlej and then up the Baspa.
Best mid-May–Jun, mid-Sep–mid-Oct
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Sangla & Kalpa
Kinnaur is the valley the Sutlej cuts on its way out of Tibet, and the old Hindustan-Tibet road is carved into its cliffs.
Best Apr–Jun, Sep–Oct
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Joshimath & Auli
Auli is a run of open meadows above Joshimath at about 2,900 m, best known for its winter ski slope and for one of the cleanest road-accessible views of Nanda…
Best Apr–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Bharmour
Bharmour, at about 2,200 m in the far interior of Chamba district, was the capital of the Gaddi shepherd kingdom for centuries and still holds the Chaurasi group…
Best Apr–Jun, Sep–Oct
See the route → OutstationDelhi to the Valley of Flowers
The Valley of Flowers is a glacial hanging valley in Garhwal, a UNESCO site, that erupts into alpine flower through July and August.
Best Jul–Aug for the bloom
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Chanshal Pass
The Chanshal Pass, at roughly 4,520 m, is the highest motorable point in Shimla district and one of the least-travelled high passes within a two-day ride of Delhi.
Best mid-Jun to Oct
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Lahaul & Sissu
The Atal Tunnel under the Rohtang ridge turned Lahaul from a five-month summer cul-de-sac into a valley you can reach in an afternoon from Manali.
Best Jun–Oct
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Spiti Valley Circuit
The full loop, ridden anticlockwise: in through Kinnaur along the Sutlej, up into the cold desert of Spiti to Kaza, over Kunzum La at about 4,550 m to…
Best mid-Jun–mid-Oct
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Kalpeshwar & the Urgam Valley
Kalpeshwar, at about 2,200 m, is the fifth of the Panch Kedar and the only one open all year and reachable almost to the door — a short walk from Devgram…
Best Apr–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Madmaheshwar
Madmaheshwar (Madhyamaheshwar), at about 3,490 m, is the second of the five Panch Kedar — a stone temple in a high meadow with Chaukhamba standing right behind it.
Best May–Jun, Sep–Oct
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Pancheshwar
Pancheshwar is the meeting of the Kali (Mahakali / Sharda) and the Saryu, on the India–Nepal border in far-east Kumaon at about 600 m.
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Churdhar Peak
Churdhar (Chur Chandni), at about 3,647 m, is the highest peak of the outer Himalaya — a bald rock dome south of the main range, topped by the Shirgul…
Best Apr–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Bhaderwah & Padri Pass
Bhaderwah, in Jammu's Doda district at about 1,600 m, is a pine-ringed town in the Chenab valley that people call ‘mini Kashmir’ and then never visit.
Best May–Oct
See the route → OutstationDelhi to the Darma Valley
The Darma Valley runs north from Dharchula in far-east Kumaon, parallel to the Byans valley, along the Dhauli Ganga.
Best Jun–Sep
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Adi Kailash & Om Parvat
The Byans Valley runs to the tri-junction of India, Nepal and Tibet.
Best Jun–Sep
See the route → OutstationDelhi to the Pangi Valley
Pangi is a valley of the Chandra-Bhaga (Chenab) walled off between the Pir Panjal and the Zanskar range, reached from Chamba only over the rough Sach Pass at…
Best Jul–Sep
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Rudranath
Rudranath, at about 3,600 m, is the fourth of the Panch Kedar and the one most riders never reach — a natural-rock Shiva face under an overhang, on a…
Best May–Jun, Sep–Oct
See the route → OutstationDelhi to the Pindari Glacier Road
The Pindari Glacier is the classic Kumaon ‘glacier you can almost walk to’ — a graded trail up the Pindar river valley from the roadhead at…
Best May–Jun, Sep–Oct
See the route → OutstationDelhi to the Bhabha Valley
The Bhabha Valley runs north off the Sutlej at Wangtu, deep in Kinnaur — a green, forested side-valley that most riders on the Kinnaur road never see.
Best Jun–Oct
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Spiti's High Villages
Above Kaza, a loop of rough roads climbs the Spiti plateau to the villages that top every list: Langza with its giant hillside Buddha and its fossil beds; Komic,…
Best Jun–Sep
See the route → OutstationDelhi to the Pin Valley & Mud
The Pin Valley branches south off the Spiti river below Kaza — a dead-end valley protected as the Pin Valley National Park, home to ibex, blue sheep and a…
Best Jun–Sep
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Dodra Kwar
Dodra Kwar is the most isolated tehsil in Himachal — two high villages, Dodra and Kwar, in valleys walled off from the rest of the state.
Best Jun–Oct
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Leh via Kinnaur & Spiti
The back door to Ladakh. Instead of the fast, brutal Manali sprint, this route climbs the Sutlej through Kinnaur, crosses Spiti and Kunzum La (4,590 m) into…
Best Jun–Sep
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Hanle & the Changthang
Hanle, in the far south-east of Ladakh's Changthang, sits at about 4,300 m in a broad valley of the upper Indus tributaries.
Best Jun–Sep
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Turtuk & the Nubra-Shyok Villages
Turtuk, at the far end of the Nubra valley near the line with Pakistan, is a Balti village — stone-and-timber lanes, water channels, apricot and walnut…
Best Jun–Sep
See the route → OutstationDelhi to the Aryan Valley (Dha-Hanu)
On the lower Indus below Leh, past Khaltse where the river turns toward Pakistan, a handful of villages — Dha, Hanu, Biama, Garkone — are home to the…
Best Jun–Sep
See the route → OutstationDelhi to the Nelong Valley
North of Gangotri, past Bhaironghati, the Nelong (Jadhang) valley opens into a cold-desert, Tibetan-plateau landscape — ochre cliffs, thin grass, blue…
Best May–Jun, Sep–Oct
See the route → OutstationDelhi to the Milam Glacier Road
The Johar valley beyond Munsiyari was one of the great Indo-Tibet trade routes until the 1962 war closed the border.
Best May–Jun, Sep–Oct
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Panwali Kantha
Panwali Kantha is a wide alpine meadow at around 3,600 m on the historic foot-traverse between Ghuttu (near Budha Kedar) and Triyuginarayan (near Kedarnath)…
Best May–Jun, Sep–Oct
See the route → OutstationDelhi to the Gurez Valley
Gurez lies in the Kishanganga (Neelum) valley of north Kashmir, reached over the 3,300 m Razdan Pass from Bandipora.
Best Jun–Sep
See the route → OutstationDelhi to the Kutti Valley & Jollingkong
Past Dharchula and Gunji, the road up the Kuthi Yankti river runs to Kutti village at about 3,700 m — one of the highest permanently-inhabited villages in…
Best May–Jun, Sep–Oct
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Padum (Zanskar)
Padum is the main settlement of Zanskar — a high, dry, deeply Buddhist valley walled off by the Great Himalayan and Zanskar ranges, historically reachable…
Best Jun–Sep
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Joshimath & Tapovan
The gateway town for Auli, Badrinath and Valley of Flowers — a working Garhwal hill town with hot springs and a cliffside Narsingh temple, at 1,875 m.
Best May–Jun, Sep–Oct
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Mana Village
The last village on the Indian side before Tibet — Vasudhara falls, the Saraswati river vanishing into a gorge, and a road that simply stops.
Best May–Jun, Sep–Oct
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Mori & the Tons Valley
A remote river valley on the Himachal border, upstream of Har-ki-Dun — apple orchards, deodar forest, and almost no tourist infrastructure at all.
Best Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Yamunotri
The Yamuna's source, a hot-spring roadhead, and the last stretch on foot or by pony — one of the quieter Char Dham approaches.
Best May–Jun, Sep–Oct
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Hemkund Sahib
A glacial lake at 4,300 m ringed by seven peaks, reached from Govindghat by a genuine trek on foot — one of the highest Sikh shrines in the world.
Best Jun–Sep
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Chandratal Lake
A crescent-shaped high-altitude lake at 4,300 m in Spiti's Kunzum range — one of the most photographed, and most demanding, lakes in the Himalaya.
Best Jul–Sep
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Sach Pass
One of the most demanding motorable passes in Himachal, at 4,420 m — a narrow, glacier-fed track linking Chamba's Pangi valley to the outside world.
Best Jul–Sep
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Chehni Kothi & the Banjar Valley
A 1,500-year-old five-storey wooden tower in a quiet Himachal village — the Banjar valley's less-visited answer to the crowds at Jibhi.
Best Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Manali & Solang
The classic Himachal ride, done properly — the Beas-valley highway, Old Manali, the Hadimba temple, Solang, and the Atal Tunnel through the Pir Panjal.
Best Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Kullu & Bijli Mahadev
The Beas valley's orchard town, famous for its autumn Dussehra, and a short walk up a ridge to a Shiva temple said to draw the lightning.
Best Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route →Camping trips
Ride to the trailhead, then camp on the mountain. Bikes secured in the last village, gear and a guide arranged, and a leave-no-trace camp the group commits to.
Delhi to Nag Tibba (camping)
Nag Tibba, at 3,022 m, is the highest peak of the lower Garhwal range and one of the easiest true Himalayan summits to reach from Delhi — a ride to the trailhead…
Best All year (Dec–Feb for snow)
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Prashar Lake (camping)
Prashar Lake sits in a bowl of meadow at about 2,730 m above Mandi, with a small floating island that drifts across it and a three-storey wooden pagoda temple on…
Best Apr–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Lohajung & Brahmatal (camping)
Brahmatal is a small lake on a high ridge in Garhwal at about 3,700 m, reached on a winter camping trek that gives one of the closest road-trip-accessible views…
Best Dec–Feb for snow; Mar–Jun green
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Sankri & Kedarkantha (camping)
Kedarkantha, at about 3,800 m, is the best-known winter snow trek in the country — a gentle climb through pine and oak to open camps and a broad summit…
Best Dec–Apr for snow; May–Jun green
See the route → CampingDelhi to Deoria Tal
Deoria Tal is a small lake at about 2,400 m in oak and rhododendron forest above Sari village, near Ukhimath in the Kedar valley.
Best Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route → CampingDelhi to Khaliya Top
Khaliya Top is an alpine meadow at about 3,500 m directly above Munsiyari, facing the five-summited wall of the Panchachuli.
Best Apr–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route → CampingDelhi to Dodital
Dodital is a small, spring-fed lake at about 3,000 m in thick oak and deodar forest in the Assi Ganga valley above Uttarkashi.
Best Apr–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route → CampingDelhi to Kuari Pass
Kuari Pass, about 3,650 m above Joshimath, sits on the historic Lord Curzon / Nanda Devi trail — a route surveyed a century ago for its view.
Best Apr–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route → CampingDelhi to Ali & Bedni Bugyal
Ali and Bedni Bugyal, above Wan village in the Nandakini valley, are among the largest alpine meadows in the Himalaya — open, rolling grass at…
Best Apr–Jun, Sep–Oct
See the route → CampingDelhi to Har Ki Dun
Har Ki Dun — the ‘valley of gods’ — is a cradle valley at about 3,500 m in the upper Tons basin, in Govind Pashu Vihar national park,…
Best Apr–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route → CampingDelhi to Pangot Forest Camp
A birding camp in oak-and-pine forest above Nainital — over 200 recorded species, and a genuinely quiet alternative to the lake town below.
Best Oct–Jun
See the route → CampingDelhi to Bhrigu Lake Base Camp
A high-altitude lake above Manali reached in two days from the road — meadow camping at Gulaba, then a genuine trek to a lake at 4,300 m.
Best Jun–Oct
See the route → CampingDelhi to Shivpuri — Ganga Riverside Camping
A tent on a sandy bend of the Ganga above Rishikesh, a raft down the rapids by day and a bonfire by night — a first camping ride that needs no trek.
Best Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route → CampingDelhi to Tiger Falls & Chakrata (camping)
A quiet cantonment hill, a forest road out to a waterfall of nearly ninety metres, and a camp within earshot of it — a wilder alternative to the standard Chakrata weekend.
Best Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route → CampingDelhi to Corbett — Kosi Riverside Camp
A riverside camp on the Kosi at the edge of the tiger reserve, a small temple on a rock in the stream, and elephant country beyond the fence.
Best Nov–Jun
See the route → CampingDelhi to Kanatal & Surkanda Devi (camping)
A forest camp in deodar and oak at about 2,600 m, and a short climb to a hilltop Shakti temple with a wide Himalayan view.
Best Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route → CampingDelhi to Sattal — Lakeside Camping
A cluster of small lakes in oak and pine forest a few kilometres beyond Bhimtal — lakeside camps, birds at dawn, and quiet evenings.
Best Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov
See the route →Jungle & wildlife
Rides to the edge of a tiger reserve, a grassland, a wetland. You often cannot take a bike inside — drives are by permitted vehicle — but the ride puts you on the boundary, on the river, in the buffer.
Delhi to Jim Corbett
Jim Corbett, founded in 1936, is India's oldest national park and one of its densest tiger populations.
Best Nov–Feb
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Pilibhit Tiger Reserve
Pilibhit is a long, narrow tiger reserve in the Uttar Pradesh terai, hard against the Nepal border — sal forest, tall grassland and the Sharda canal…
Best Nov–Feb
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Ranthambhore
Ranthambhore is dry deciduous forest, ravines and lakes wrapped around a 10th-century hill fort that still stands inside the reserve.
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Dudhwa Tiger Reserve
Dudhwa is a strip of the terai pressed against the Nepal border in far-north Uttar Pradesh — sal forest, marsh and grassland that grows taller than a person.
Best Nov–Mar
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Pench Tiger Reserve
Pench straddles the Madhya Pradesh–Maharashtra border in the Satpura foothills — teak forest, bamboo and open grassland along the Pench river, and…
Best Nov–Mar (Apr–Jun for sightings)
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Kalesar National Park
Kalesar, in the far north-east corner of Haryana against the Yamuna and the Himachal line, is a genuine sal forest in the Shivaliks — contiguous with…
Best Nov–Jun
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Tal Chhapar & Churu
Tal Chhapar, in the Churu district, is a flat saline grassland sanctuary — a rare patch of open savanna in the Thar's fringe, thick with blackbuck, and a…
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Khichan & Phalodi
Khichan, a Marwari village near Phalodi in the Jodhpur district, hosts one of India's great wildlife spectacles: every winter, residents scatter grain at a…
Best Nov–Feb
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Jawai & Bera
Between Pali and Sirohi, the plains break into a field of rounded granite hills — and among the caves and boulders lives one of the densest leopard…
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Sariska by the Tehla Gate
Sariska is a tiger reserve in the Alwar Aravallis, and most people see it from the busy main gate on the Alwar–Jaipur road.
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Keetham Lake & the Bear Rescue
Sur Sarovar — better known as Keetham Lake — is a broad reservoir inside a bird sanctuary about 20 km short of Agra, thick with wintering waterfowl:…
Best Nov–Feb
See the route → WeekendDelhi to the Chambal Ravines at Dholpur
The Chambal is one of the cleanest large rivers in northern India, and the National Chambal Sanctuary protects a long stretch of it for gharial, marsh crocodile,…
Best Nov–Mar
See the route → WeekendDelhi to the Nawabganj Bird Sanctuary
The Nawabganj Bird Sanctuary — officially the Chandrashekhar Azad sanctuary — is a shallow oxbow lake on the Lucknow–Kanpur road in Unnao…
Best Nov–Feb
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Kuno National Park
Kuno National Park, near Sheopur in the north-west corner of Madhya Pradesh, is the dry-deciduous forest and open grassland chosen for India's cheetah…
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Ratapani & Bhimbetka
On the Vindhyan escarpment south-east of Bhopal, the Ratapani Tiger Reserve wraps sandstone gorges, teak forest and the Ratapani lake around a population of…
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Rajaji National Park
Elephant, tiger and leopard country straddling the Shivalik foothills near Haridwar and Dehradun — a proper jungle safari a day's ride from Delhi.
Best Nov–Jun
See the route → ShortDelhi to Asola Bhatti Wildlife Sanctuary
Delhi's own leopard-and-nilgai forest, folded into the Aravalli ridge inside the city's southern edge — a short morning ride and walk, not an overnight trip.
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Keoladeo National Park, Bharatpur
A flat, easy run to a UNESCO wetland explored by bicycle at dawn — hundreds of bird species in the cold months, plus a fort town for the afternoon.
Best Nov–Mar
See the route → ShortDelhi to Okhla Bird Sanctuary
A barrage-fed wetland at the Delhi–Noida border where storks, ducks and waders gather in winter — the easiest birding trip from the city.
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Jhalana Leopard Reserve, Jaipur
A dry-forest reserve on Jaipur's outskirts where leopards are seen on jeep safaris — big-cat country with a city skyline behind it.
Best Oct–Mar (Apr–Jun for sightings)
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Simbalbara National Park & Paonta Sahib
A small sal-and-bamboo national park on the Himachal border, and a historic gurdwara on the Yamuna — an easy, uncrowded forest weekend.
Best Nov–Jun
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Jhilmil Jheel, Haridwar
A grassland-and-wetland reserve beside Haridwar where swamp deer graze and elephants pass — a small, easy wildlife weekend on a national highway.
Best Nov–Jun
See the route →Desert & forts
The dry country west and south — painted merchant towns, hill forts, step-wells, dunes and salt flats, on flat open roads.
Delhi to Shekhawati
Shekhawati is a cluster of dusty market towns in northern Rajasthan where 19th-century Marwari merchants covered their havelis — courtyard mansions — in painted…
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Kumbhalgarh & Ranakpur
Kumbhalgarh is a 15th-century hill fort in the Aravallis, the birthplace of Maharana Pratap, wrapped in a continuous wall about 36 km long — often called…
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Bundi & Kota
Bundi is a compact blue town in south-east Rajasthan, packed under the Taragarh fort and honeycombed with step-wells — the great Raniji ki Baori among more…
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Mount Abu
Mount Abu is a granite plateau at about 1,220 m near the Rajasthan–Gujarat border — the state's only hill station and, at Guru Shikhar, the highest…
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Jaisalmer
Jaisalmer is a sandstone city in the western Thar, built around a 12th-century hill fort that is still lived in — one of the very few ‘living…
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → OutstationDelhi to the Rann of Kutch
The Great Rann of Kutch is a seasonal salt marsh the size of a small country in western Gujarat — underwater in the monsoon, then dried to a blinding white…
Best Nov–Feb
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Abhaneri, Bhangarh & Kesroli
This is an easy weekend loop through Alwar district that packs in three offbeat stops: Chand Baori at Abhaneri, a 13-storey stepwell of about 3,500 steps and one…
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Bikaner
Bikaner, deep in the Thar, is a desert-fort city that most riders skip on the way to Jaisalmer.
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Chittorgarh via Bijolia & Menal
Chittorgarh is the largest fort in India by area — a whole hilltop town of palaces, temples, tanks and the two towers, the Vijay Stambh and the Kirti…
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Alwar & Kesroli
Alwar is the closest of the Rajputana princely towns to Delhi and one of the least visited — the long hilltop Bala Qila, the lake-facing City Palace with…
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Mahansar & Ramgarh
The Shekhawati is an open-air gallery of painted merchant havelis, and most visitors see it at Nawalgarh, Mandawa or Fatehpur.
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Kishangarh & Roopangarh
Kishangarh, just off the highway near Ajmer, is India's marble-trading capital, and the runoff from its yards has turned a stretch of land into a startling…
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Nagaur
Nagaur, on the old caravan road between Jodhpur and Bikaner, holds the Ahhichatragarh (‘fort of the hooded cobra’) — a sprawling walled complex…
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Osian
Osian, about 65 km north-west of Jodhpur on the edge of the Thar, was a major trading and religious centre a thousand years ago, and it kept the temples to prove…
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Todgarh-Raoli & Goram Ghat
The Todgarh-Raoli Wildlife Sanctuary, in the southern Aravallis between Ajmer, Pali and Rajsamand, is a surprising pocket of dense hill forest, seasonal…
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Jodhpur & Mehrangarh Fort
The Blue City under a sandstone fort on a 120-metre ridge — one of Rajasthan's biggest, best-preserved forts, and a genuinely blue old town below it.
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Ranakpur's Jain Temples
A forest-valley temple complex with 1,444 uniquely carved marble pillars — no two identical — on the road between Kumbhalgarh and Udaipur.
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Pushkar & Ajmer
A holy lake ringed by ghats, one of the few Brahma temples in India, and Ajmer's great dargah over the ridge — a Rajasthan weekend with real weight.
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Jaipur & Amber Fort
A fast highway run to the Pink City, three great forts on the ridge above it, and an eighteenth-century observatory — Rajasthan's easiest weekend from Delhi.
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Udaipur
A long, fast highway to a lake city of palaces, marble ghats and green hills — the classic Rajasthan ride, split properly.
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Neemrana & Tijara Fort
A fifteenth-century hill fort on a spur above the highway, another palace-fort at Tijara, and quiet Aravalli roads between them — an easy fort weekend.
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Karauli & Kaila Devi
A small red sandstone palace town in eastern Rajasthan, a temple that fills for its Navratri fair, and Chambal-edge country beyond — a quiet corner.
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Sambhar Salt Lake
India's largest inland salt lake — a white, shallow sheet running to the horizon, old salt works, and in winter, flamingos in their thousands.
Best Nov–Mar
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Deeg Palace
The eighteenth-century summer palace of the Jat kings — formal gardens, water pavilions and hundreds of fountains, built to recreate the monsoon.
Best Oct–Mar
See the route →Rivers, ruins & ravines
River gorges, forgotten temples and old badlands — gharial and dolphin water, hundred-temple ghats, empty palaces, rock-cut caves and hill forts, on the plains south and east.
Delhi to Bateshwar & the Chambal Ravines
Bateshwar, on a bend of the Yamuna near Bah in Agra district, is a long line of more than a hundred Shiva temples along the ghats, packed and re-built over…
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → OutstationDelhi to the Morena Temple Cluster
In the Chambal country of Morena district, a handful of extraordinary and near-empty sites sit within an hour of each other: the circular Chausath Yogini temple…
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Datia Palace & Sonagiri
Datia, in northern Madhya Pradesh, holds the Bir Singh Deo palace (Purana Mahal / Satkhanda) — a seven-storey stone-and-brick palace from about 1620,…
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Jhalawar
Jhalawar, in the far south-east of Rajasthan, is the heart of Hadoti country and full of things nobody rides to.
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Bhainsrorgarh, Menal & Bijolia
Bhainsrorgarh, in Chittorgarh district, is a slender fort strung along a rock spur almost encircled by the Chambal and the Bamani river — part of it is now…
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Dungarpur & Baneshwar
Dungarpur, in the Vagad country of far-south Rajasthan, is one of the loveliest un-touristed towns in the state.
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Garhmukteshwar & Anupshahr
Garhmukteshwar (Brijghat), on NH-9 about 100 km east of Delhi, is the nearest Ganga pilgrimage town — ghats, a long line of temples, and a huge Kartik…
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Hastinapur
Hastinapur, near Meerut, is where the Mahabharata places the Kuru capital — low mounds, an ASI site and a small museum.
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Orchha
Orchha, on the Betwa in Madhya Pradesh, was the Bundela capital and it has barely changed — the Jahangir Mahal and Raja Mahal palaces on their island, the…
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Chanderi
Chanderi, on the Malwa–Bundelkhand border in Madhya Pradesh, is a walled town under the hilltop Kirti Durg fort — a place of carved gates (the Khooni…
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Khajuraho, Panna & Raneh Falls
Khajuraho's Chandela temples — the Western, Eastern and Southern groups, carved in the 10th–11th centuries — are the famous draw, but the…
Best Oct–Mar (Apr–Jun for sightings)
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Kalinjar Fort
Kalinjar, in the Banda district on the northern rim of the Vindhyas, is one of the great hill forts of central India — held by the Chandelas, besieged by…
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Deogarh & the Betwa Gorge
Deogarh, in the Lalitpur district of Uttar Pradesh, holds the Dashavatara temple — a small 6th-century Gupta shrine, one of the earliest surviving…
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Mahoba
Mahoba was a Chandela capital, and its rulers left a ring of great reservoirs — Rahila Sagar with its ruined sun temple, Madan Sagar with a submerged…
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Ajaigarh Fort
Ajaigarh is a Chandela hill fort on a flat-topped hill above the Ken river gorge, on the northern edge of Panna.
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Shivpuri & Narwar
Shivpuri was the Scindias' summer capital and hunting ground, and it kept the evidence: an ornate pair of marble chhatris in a formal garden, the Madhav National…
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Gandhi Sagar
Where the Chambal cuts the Malwa plateau on the Madhya Pradesh–Rajasthan border, the Gandhi Sagar dam has flooded a dramatic gorge, and the surrounding…
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Mandsaur & Sondni
Mandsaur — ancient Dasapura — sits in the far west of Madhya Pradesh, and just outside it, at Sondni, stand the fragments of two great victory…
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → OutstationDelhi to Shahabad Fort & Sorsan
The far corner of Hadoti, in Baran district, is one of the least-ridden parts of Rajasthan.
Best Oct–Mar (Jul–Sep for the florican)
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Fatehpur Sikri
Akbar's deserted red-sandstone capital, abandoned within 15 years of being built — the Buland Darwaza, Jama Masjid and a ghost city preserved almost whole.
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Vrindavan & Mathura
The heart of Krishna's Braj country on the Yamuna — hundreds of temples, the Banke Bihari crowds, and the quieter ghats along the river.
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Gwalior Fort & Jai Vilas Palace
A sandstone fortress over a Scindia city — glazed-tile palaces, an eighth-century temple, and a musical tradition that runs back to Tansen.
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Devprayag & the Sangam
Where the green Alaknanda and the muddy Bhagirathi meet and become the Ganga, with an old temple on the ridge above — at the start of the Char Dham road.
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Haridwar
The easiest pilgrim-town weekend from Delhi — a fast highway, an evening aarti on the Ganga, and two hilltop temples reached by ropeway.
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Rudraprayag & Karnaprayag
Two more of the five Prayags on the Char Dham road — the Mandakini and the Pindar joining the Alaknanda — with the road to Kedarnath and Badrinath branching off.
Best Oct–Mar
See the route → WeekendDelhi to Jhansi Fort
A granite hill fort at the heart of Bundelkhand and the palace museum of the queen who fought in 1857, with Orchha a short ride away.
Best Oct–Mar
See the route →Rather ride it with a group?
Every route here can be run as a briefed ROAR ride — a lead and a sweep, fuel stops planned, and a nature action built into the day.