East Coast Route (Part 2)

The official East-Coast Route covers only the top two thirds of South Korea’s east coast. Planners mapped it out using two separate bike paths with a cycleable 37-kilometer gap between them:

• The Gangwon Bicycle Path spans 242 kilometers along Gangwon Province’s coast and forms the top section of the East Coast Route.
• The Gyeongbuk Bike Path is the East Coast Route’s bottom section. It crosses 76 kilometers along North Gyeongsang Province’s coast, between Yeongdeok and Uljin Counties.

You won’t find stamp booths or an official Certification Bike Path between Yeongdeok County and Busan Metropolitan City along the bottom third of Korea’s east coast. However, a series of coastal roads allow cyclists to conquer this lower section.