Trans Canadian Adventure Trail · 2026
One rider. 40,000 km. Every kilometre of the Trans Canada Adventure Trail, verified. Craig Luke rode solo from Grant Bay, Vancouver Island to St. John's, Newfoundland to remap the TCAT with fresh GPS data.
The greatest adventure route in Canada
The TCAT is the greatest adventure route in Canada. It's also getting stale. Trails get decommissioned. Gates go up. Bridges wash out. Riders following old GPX files end up on private land, dead ends or terrain way past their skill level.
Nobody had ridden the whole thing recently and published clean data. So Craig did it. All 40,000 km. Every section logged, verified and graded Green, Blue or Red so riders of every level know exactly what they're getting into.
He did it on $50 a day. Not as a stunt. As proof. Adventure riding doesn't need a $30,000 bike and a sponsor-funded film crew. It needs a capable machine, good data and the nerve to leave the driveway.
The Route
Ways to sponsor Craig
Every dollar went to the trail
No overhead. No hotels. No middleman. Your $50 covered one honest day on the trail.
149 days × $50 = $7,450 funded the entire expedition
Fuel
The biggest line. Every single day, tank after tank.
Food
Cooked on a camp stove. No restaurants, no drive-thru.
Tires & repairs
Dirt eats tires and parts. This kept the bike moving.
Camp & basics
The essentials to sleep rough and start again at dawn.
Backed by
Craig rode supported by the brands he trusts on the trail.
Want your gear on the next one?
Most gear gets tested on a two hour loop close to home. This ran 40,000 km across ten provinces over 149 days. Mud, sand, rock, snow and a lot of gravel in between. Nothing about it was staged.
Kove, Turkana, Motoz and Outback Motortek were on the bike the whole way. Every kilometre got filmed. If something broke we say so, and if it held up riders hear it from someone who actually rode it.
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