I am heading out to Canada at the beginning of May and plan on cycling across the country over around 5 months.
The aim would be to cycle the whole way across the country from the West to the East with the prevailing wind. I wouldn't be upset if I didn't make it the whole way though, it's more about seeing and experiencing as much as possible rather than trying to go as fast as possible.
The main route I've been looking at is the Great Northern Bikepacking Route – https://www.greatnorthernbikepacking.com/route-info.html – the only downside of this route is that it's quite new so I imagine it could be quite chaotic! I'm also a little concerned that if I started heading West from BC in May then I could run into issues with snow in the rockies.
The other route I was looking at was the TransCanada Ultra route – https://transcanadabikerace.com/en/ – it's a bike touring route rather than bikepacking but it seems more established. I'm not sure of how busy/unpleasant some of the roads might be though.
I'm planning on settling down in Revelstoke for the Winter so one thought I had was to do the Great Northern Bikepacking Route from Calgary to the West Coast first, fly over to BC and then do the Victoria -> Calgary sections. That might be a better way to manage the possibility of snow in the high BC/Alberta elevations?
by Starky04