# Canelones by bike

12.7 km of coastal bike path, and the missing link.

Original: https://pedaleando-uruguay.bike/places/canelones

- [Flying in with a bike](https://pedaleando-uruguay.bike/plan/by-air): One airport that matters, Carrasco, and one number to research before booking: what each airline charges for a boxed bike.
- [Coastal Utopias](https://pedaleando-uruguay.bike/routes/coastal-utopias) — Ester Zaha: From Carrasco to Neptunia along the Río de la Plata shore — a half-day ride that reads a century of successive coastal utopias written into the landscape.
- [Montevideo is learning to ride](https://pedaleando-uruguay.bike/uruguay-by-bike/montevideo): The everyday cycling city — the Rambla, the new protected lanes, and what the numbers say about where Montevideo is heading.
- [Slow cycle-touring — what it means here](https://pedaleando-uruguay.bike/uruguay-by-bike/slow-cycling): A bicycle as a way of knowing a place at the right speed, not a machine for going fast, and why Uruguay suits the practice.
- [Canelones opens a short pedestrian seafront path and announces one to Atlántida](https://pedaleando-uruguay.bike/uruguay-by-bike/atlantida-seafront-path): A 500-metre pedestrian path is open in Parque del Plata; the announced link to Atlántida has no route or firm timetable.
- [Is Montevideo safe to cycle?](https://pedaleando-uruguay.bike/plan/is-montevideo-safe-to-cycle): Yes, with a map in your head: where the protected network holds, where the gaps are, and where to pay attention.
- [Montevideo to Cabo Polonio: the Atlantic coast in stages](https://pedaleando-uruguay.bike/routes/montevideo-cabo-polonio): 325 kilometres from Montevideo to Cabo Polonio in five flat, forgiving stages, ending at a car-free village in the dunes.
- [Ciudad de la Costa: the corridor that took more than a decade](https://pedaleando-uruguay.bike/routes/ciudad-de-la-costa): Built piece by piece over more than a decade along the Canelones shore: a story of patience, not of an inauguration.
- [Montevideo](https://pedaleando-uruguay.bike/community/montevideo): Close to a quarter of Uruguayans ride at least once a week, and the capital counts some seventy-seven kilometres of bike lane.
- [Past events](https://pedaleando-uruguay.bike/uruguay-by-bike/events/past): Every listing stays after its date has passed, so the archive shows which groups organise regularly, and how often.

## About this section

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 in this section.