Hmm, at places it really does offer a few too many choices. Perhaps after extensive re-editing, it will become a really useful set of cues for someone unfamiliar with the area.
Oh well, here it is:
An optional scenic route adds 12km, but causes you to spend less time on the relatively busy Orangeville Road. This makes this portion of the route more pleasant. Also, it makes the later Elmira "side-trip" optional, while still leaving a 162km route.
Go to [*] to skip this scenic route.
Turn LEFT onto the Orangeville Road, and take the next paved RIGHT.
Warning this is rough pavement. Not hacked up smooth asphalt, but durable rough pavement. Users of 19c tyres may wish they had nice fat 23c tyres like mine. Or larger.
Follow this road to Oustic. Note the signs to drive slowly.
Continue northeast until a stop sign at the seventh line (beyond which the pavement completely disintegrates, anyway)
Warning: While this scenic detour to Oustic does reduce traffic going to Belwood, the Garafraxa Road return route into Fergus does get relatively busy, including campers and trailers. So it is best to plan to get to Belwood relatively early, and you may even decide it is better therefore to take the shorter smoother route anyway.
[*]Turn LEFT onto the Orangeville Road. Follow this northeast to the seventh line, which is paved and marked with a flashing amber light
[There are snacks in Belwood; there is a decent restaurant and take-out by a park on the road if you turn left just before the top of the hill].
Follow this road all the way back to Fergus.
It becomes Garafraxa Road.
Follow it (past a set of lights) until it ends at a T-intersection.
[Actually, now I tend to arrange follow a quieter road, Hill Street, one to the left, through Fergus, going out to Garafraxa when Hill Street ends]
You may want to try and look for snacks in Elora.
Find David Street leading out of Elora, perpendicular to the main street, Geddes, and parallel to the way you arrived, a couple of streets to the northwest.
My old route is to follow David Street all the way to West Montrose. I have a new variation, however, which takes you to Floradale, and avoids the heavily trafficked stretch around Conestogo. Send me e-mail and I'll tell you about it, and might get around to adding it in here a yet another variation.
Anyway, following David Street all the way to West Montrose involves a stop-sign, a four-way stop-sign, passing Randall's house which will be on the left, passing a little brick castle turret at the top of a rise which will be on the right, passing a new order Mennonite church which will be on the left, and another stop sign (old Hwy 86), until you come to the stop sign in West Montrose.
[Click here to skip optional Elmira side-trip]
Look for the first paved road on the right.
This is the second right turn; the correct road is paved if you turn right, but not if you were to turn left.
and follow this into
Just before the Stop Sign at Hwy 86, you can turn onto a parallel access road marked at "Industrial Road". There is a McDonald's and a Donut Shop along here. Once you've passed the McDonald's, you can turn around and follow the road all the way back to where you picked it up.
That is, from McDonald's, follow Industrial Road to Stop Sign.
Turn LEFT. Follow pavement (it makes a couple of turns) until you get to an intersection beyond which the pavement ends.
[end optional Elmira side-trip]
Traffic lights for Hwy 86 just outside St. Jacob's.
Hope some helpful car trips them for you.
Follow the road across Hwy 86, straight through the next intersection to a T-intersection. This is avoiding the main St. Jacob's business district. You may rather want to go visit and/or look for snacks.
NB. On Sundays there is very little between St. Jacob's and Bamberg for snacks--about 40km, and it feels like even more at that point in the ride.
At the T-intersection turn LEFT,
and take the next RIGHT.
This is fairly clearly marked as Hawkesville Road.
Follow this not quite to the end, but until it is obviously going to end up on a private gravel pit.
Turn RIGHT at this effective T-intersection.
Follow the road left up the hill and past Hawkesville, and continue on the same road until you arrive in
Continue until the pavement ends.
Turn LEFT. There are signs pointing you to Cross Hill and Wellesley.
Cross Hill. The road appears to curve, but is also an intersection. Follow the RIGHT curve, but not the next LEFT.
Immediately after a big brown sign announcing Wellesley, there is a little green arrow sign saying "Wellesley" pointing left down a road.
Turn LEFT to follow that sign.
And soon you will arrive in
The road you end up on heads toward Bamberg, but a bit south of it. It also curves around, and would take you to St. Agatha, but you don't want to follow it that far.
So, after finding this road near Wellesley, head east (basically) along it until you come to an three-way stop sign. This is just past a mailbox being held up by a bear silhouette.
Turn LEFT.
After arriving in Bamberg, turn RIGHT.
Follow the road to the end, turn LEFT, then RIGHT.
Unless you need another hill. 8-)
After the longish downhill curve, turn left at the flashing light in Erbsville onto the Conservation Drive.
Four-way STOP. Straight through.
Follow Conservation Drive to Northlake Drive.
Turn RIGHT.
Take next useful RIGHT (onto High Point Road), and cross Northfield Drive at the stop sign.
After Northfield Drive, take the first LEFT. (Rolling Hills).
Then the next RIGHT. (FallingBrook)
Follow Fallingbrook out to Glen Forest (stop sign, non residential suburban street), turn RIGHT, and follow that to Bearinger Road.
Turn LEFT onto Bearinger.
You probably want to find your way home from somewhere around this point, but to complete the route, I go straight along Bearinger, straight through the traffic lights, follow the road RIGHT, and it becomes Hazel Street, although you may want to take Philip Street back to the University.
I have measured total distance at about 162km for this course.