E-book: Practical Bikepacking Guide to La Loire à Vélo

900 km of route, including 640 km from Nevers to the Atlantic, along Europe's last wild river. Your first bikepacking trip starts here.

Dreaming of setting off by bike, sleeping outdoors and waking up facing the châteaux? La Loire à Vélo is the ideal playground to get started: flat, fully signposted, safe, and lined with more than 800 places to stay designed for cyclists. With this guide, we have done the groundwork so all you have to do is pedal.

What you will find inside:

• The route split into 4 discovery sections (Nevers → Orléans → Tours → Angers → Saint-Brévin), each one doable in a few days and reachable by train, with maps, elevation profiles, levels and points of interest
• Where to sleep: municipal campsites, Accueil Vélo certified places, wild camping, Warmshowers… from the simplest to the wildest, with our tested recommendations
• Safety and mechanics: the rules to ride with peace of mind and the gear to make yourself visible
• The complete gear list: clothing, sleeping, repairs, nutrition, electronics, the essentials without overloading
• The best apps to plan your route, find water, a place to stay… or riding companions
• A section dedicated to women: saddle, cycle, riding solo safely, because setting off alone is completely doable

Who is it for? For anyone who wants to try bikepacking without stress: from a first long weekend to the full 900 km adventure.