{"id":657514,"date":"2026-06-25T12:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T12:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/657514\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T12:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T12:59:09","slug":"new-gravel-route-unveiled-in-dumfries-and-galloway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/657514\/","title":{"rendered":"New gravel route unveiled in Dumfries and Galloway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kesteven, who helped plan the route, said they had worked hard to take in &#8220;traffic free paths and quiet back lanes, linking trail centres, craggy coasts, smugglers coves, seemingly endless forests and wild mountainscapes&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Despite being the closest part of Scotland to England, the area remains largely overlooked and undiscovered,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s somewhere you can experience the wild solitude of Scotland&#8217;s dark sky parks, whilst also taking in deep history, delightful towns, villages, remote farms and stunning scenery at every turn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In short, it really has been the perfect biking area to build a route in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Routes are free to download from the Cycling UK website as a GPX file, ready to use with a cycling computer or smartphone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alongside the file, riders will also receive essential safety tips about how to ride responsibly and respect the countryside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kesteven, who helped plan the route, said they had worked hard to take in &#8220;traffic free paths and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-657514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}