12.7 km of coastal bike path, and the missing link.
If you fly in through Carrasco, you land in Canelones: the airport sits on the department's side of the Arroyo Carrasco, about nineteen kilometres from central Montevideo.
Ciudad de la Costa's shorefront path, the Rambla Paseo Costero, grew in stages from 2015 — more than a decade of building that ended in November 2025 with a final 3,600-metre stretch to the Arroyo Carrasco. Today the path runs unbroken for 12.7 kilometres between El Pinar and the stream. Getting there from Montevideo is another matter. East of the Prefectura de Pocitos the capital's rambla offers no continuous protected lane — a gap of about fourteen and a half kilometres between Pocitos and the stream. The 2025 opening joined two departmental projects that had been advancing in parallel — there was never a metropolitan plan — and as of August 2026, Montevideo's administration has published no cycling plans for the missing stretch, the one carrying the heaviest everyday demand. Back in 2020 Yamandú Orsi, then the intendant of Canelones, was already saying the promenade needed its connection to Montevideo's.
Inland is wine country. A good share of Uruguay's vineyards grow between Las Piedras, Canelón Chico, Juanicó and Sauce, where quiet roads roll through loops of sixty to a hundred kilometres. Las Piedras also keeps the memory of the 1811 battle — the 1911 obelisk and an open-air museum, some twenty-four kilometres from Montevideo. Everything we've covered in Canelones is gathered below.
