Dubai Hills Cycling Track: Map, Loops & Facts

Dubai Hills Park

The park is the centrepiece and the best turnaround point. It covers 180,000 sqm with 1,800 palms and trees, general entry is free and the green areas are open 24/7 (Bayut). Inside there is a 2.5 km running track, sports courts, and gated paid attractions including the Skate Park and Splash Park. There is no verified dedicated cycling track inside the park itself: the smooth internal paths are popular with children learning to ride (YallaCycle rates it a beginner and balance-bike venue), but adult riders should treat the park as walking pace and keep the real riding to the boulevard lanes outside.

Getting there

There is no metro station in the estate, so this is a drive-or-bus ride. The obvious start is Dubai Hills Mall, which opened in February 2022 at the northern corner of the estate where Umm Suqeim Street meets Al Khail Road, with around 7,000 parking spaces and about 650 stores for the post-ride coffee. From the mall the boulevard lanes run south-west through the community. Toward Al Barsha, the estate's north-west boundary road is Umm Suqeim Street (D63). We crossed it at street level under the flyover by Dubai Hills Mall, both ways, on 28 August 2026, waiting at the lights once; on the far side the track runs straight to the Hessa Street bridge over Al Khail Road. That bridge is part of the RTA's 13.5 km multi-use Hessa Street track from Al Sufouh to Dubai Hills, 4.5 m wide with dedicated cycle and pedestrian halves and bridges over Sheikh Zayed Road and Al Khail Road, which plugs the estate into the coastal network. We rode it on 28 August 2026; about 1.4 km in Al Barsha was still under works that night.

What riders should know

Rider knowledge: community consensus (local cycling guides and rider write-ups), not official RTA information.

This is polite-speed community riding, and the estate's daily rhythms set the tempo. Three GEMS schools (GEMS Wellington Academy Al Khail, GEMS International School and GEMS New Millennium School) share one campus zone on Al Marabea' Street at the edge of the estate, and the weekday school run floods the surrounding junctions with cars roughly 7 to 8 am and again at pickup; time your ride around it or route away from the school cluster. Expect e-scooters and delivery riders on the lanes, walking-pace crowds near the park entrances on winter evenings, and the usual Dubai rules on helmets and lights, see our rules page. We have not yet confirmed lighting along the full route, so treat after-dark riding as unverified for now. If you outgrow the loop, the estate is a 20-minute drive from the floodlit training circuits at Nad Al Sheba and the open desert kilometres of Al Qudra.