All stages

Every stage is described once. The routes pick the stages they need, in the right order. Options like harder, easier or shorter variants sit inside each stage.

Shared roads show as nested lines: green (C) outside, blue (B), red (A) inside.

• 1Taipei → Fuxing ABC
  into the hills south of Taipei53 km970 m up
• 2Fuxing → Nanzhuang ABC
  via Shimen Reservoir 石門水庫 & Neiwan 內灣101 km1,970 m up
• 3Nanzhuang → Taichung ABC
  via Tai'an 泰安 & Dongshi 東勢97 km1,510 m up
• 4Taichung → Puli ABC
  via Chikan Peak 赤崁頂 & Guoxing 國姓67 km1,190 m up
• 5aPuli → Sun Moon Lake BC
  via Ren'ai 仁愛 & the Aowanda/Bukai 奧萬大/武界 valley88 km1,950 m up
• 5bPuli → Sun Moon Lake A
  a short hop to the lake38 km730 m up
• 6Sun Moon Lake → Alishan BC
  over the Yushan (Tataka) Pass 玉山132 km3,080 m up
• 7Alishan → Chiayi BC
  via Zhangshuhu 樟樹湖 & the 36 Hairpins of Meishan 梅山36彎77 km1,150 m up
• 8Chiayi → Meinong BC
  via the Dongshan Coffee Highway 東山咖啡公路 & Zengwen Reservoir 曾文水庫136 km2,300 m up
• 9Meinong → Kaohsiung BC
  via the Tianliao badlands 田寮 & Foguangshan 佛光山68 km520 m up
• 10Kaohsiung → Kenting BC
  via Donggang 東港 & Hengchun 恆春124 km200 m up
• 11Kenting → Daren C
  via Eluanbi 鵝鑾鼻 & Manzhou 滿州90 km910 m up
• 12Daren → Dulan C
  via Taitung 台東81 km350 m up
• 13Dulan → Yuli C
  via road no. 23 into the East Rift Valley 花東縱谷83 km870 m up
• 14Yuli → Hualien C
  through the East Rift Valley95 km650 m up
• 15Hualien → Lishan C
  through Taroko Gorge 太魯閣127 km4,120 m up
• 16Sun Moon Lake → Lishan A
  via Bukai/Aowanda 武界/奧萬大, Ren'ai & Wuling Peak 武嶺 (3,275 m)135 km4,230 m up
• 16bSun Moon Lake → Hualien A
  via Wuling Peak & Taroko Gorge 太魯閣202 km5,020 m up
• 17Lishan → Jiaoxi AC
  down the mountains via Nanshan 南山120 km1,010 m up
• 17bHualien → Jiaoxi AC
  along the Su'ao Coastal Highway 蘇澳公路133 km1,480 m up
• 18Jiaoxi → Jiufen AC
  via the cyclists' tunnel & Buyan Pavilion 不厭亭59 km630 m up
• 19Jiufen → Taipei AC
  via Keelung 基隆 & Yangmingshan 陽明山74 km970 m up

Stages 16b and 17b are the coastal variants via Taroko and the Su'ao Highway.