Hoogekraal Hoogies Hammer Loop

This compact Hoogekraal loop is built around one main objective: gain the height and ride the Hoogies Hammer descent. The mapped configuration uses a direct climbing line before returning on purpose-built singletrack, creating a short climb-and-descend ride rather than a broader circuit of the farm. At 4.2 km, the route is brief, but the climbing […]

Bloemendal Blue

Bloemendal Blue is the current Blue route published by Tygerberg Mountain Bike Club for Bloemendal Trail Park. TMTBC lists it at 13 km with 267 m of elevation gain, describes the route as circular, and grades it Blue / Moderate. The current TMTBC route page identifies Home Run, Kuilvoergat, BloemeNice, Flow Terra, Lombard’s Terra and […]

Contermanskloof Supertubes & Cheeky Corners Loop

This loop brings together two of Contermanskloof’s named descents, Supertubes and Cheeky Corners, using the farm’s climbing and linking trails to connect them into a single ride. The character is simple: gain the height first, then spend much of the return on purpose-built singletrack. The 10.5 km configuration comes from a mapped route rather than […]

Uitkamp Wetland Nature Reserve

Uitkamp Wetland Nature Reserve protects 32 hectares of seasonal wetland and surrounding lowland veld on Mosselbank Road, on the northern edge of Durbanville. It is a small reserve in a part of Cape Town that has been built over quickly, and the reason it exists has less to do with scenery than with what would […]

Botterblom Nature Reserve

Botterblom Nature Reserve is 3.6 hectares on Botterblom Road in Vierlanden, Durbanville, which makes it the smallest reserve in the City’s northern network. It is best understood as a piece of protected habitat rather than a visitor facility. There is no gate operation, no visitor centre and no published opening hours, and the City runs […]

Bracken Nature Reserve

Bracken Nature Reserve is 36 hectares on the hill above Brackenfell, and most of it is vegetation the Cape has very little of left. The reserve protects critically endangered Swartland granite renosterveld and Cape Flats sand fynbos, two types the City describes as generally poorly conserved. What makes Bracken worth understanding is not that the […]

Bothasig Fynbos Nature Reserve

Bothasig Fynbos Nature Reserve is ten hectares of indigenous vegetation surrounded by houses. It sits on the border of Visserhof, Bosmansdam and Potsdam roads in Bothasig, and its significance has nothing to do with size or scenery. It is a surviving piece of the lowland fynbos that once covered this part of Cape Town, left […]

Durbanville Nature Reserve

Durbanville Nature Reserve is small enough to walk in an hour and important enough to have been protected on purpose. It covers six hectares on Racecourse Road in Durbanville, on the edge of a suburb that grew up around it, and it holds the meeting point of two critically endangered vegetation types: Swartland Shale Renosterveld […]

Tygerberg Nature Reserve

Cape Town’s northern suburbs have few large green spaces, and Tygerberg is the biggest of them. Where Intaka Island protects a constructed wetland inside Century City, Tygerberg conserves a whole hillside of the region’s original vegetation, and the top of that hill offers a view that takes in the entire city at once. Proclaimed as […]

Intaka Island

Unlike Cape Town’s mountain parks and coastal reserves, Intaka Island focuses on wetlands, birdlife and environmental education. Its level walking trails and tranquil setting make it equally enjoyable for families, photographers, birdwatchers and anyone seeking a quieter nature experience. Intaka Island was created as part of the Century City development to conserve and rehabilitate an […]