Why this ride
Salt air first, soft hills after coffee. 108 km round from Bad Doberan - plan on about 1 h 53 of riding. On the way it passes Kühlungsborn beach road, Rerik cliffs and Neukloster inland. It keeps close to the shore for long stretches.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Baltic Coast · Kühlung Hills · Wismar
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 108 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 53
- Journey
- Loop
Distance and timing basis
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Scenic road chapters
Baltic Coast Scenic Road
For about 13 km this is Baltic Coast Scenic Road, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it — expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 13 km
- Named road
- Baltic Coast Scenic Road
Rerik cliffs photo stop → Neukloster inland sweep
40 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it. Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 37 km
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Bad Doberan minster roads
Planning note
Bad Doberan minster roads sits at 0 km, early in the day. Next is Kühlungsborn beach road.
2. Kühlungsborn beach road
Kühlungsborn is really three villages that were married in 1938 and given a name that sounds like a spa. Brunshaupten, Arendsee and Fulgen had all been fishing hamlets and then bathing resorts, and today the merged town runs along the Baltic for some three kilometres, with a long promenade, a sea bridge that reaches out over the water, and a line of white villas in the old resort style with carved balconies and little towers.
Read the complete Kühlungsborn beach road write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Kühlungsborn beach road comes up about 13 km into the recorded legs. Next is Rerik cliffs photo stop.
3. Rerik cliffs photo stop
The coast between Kühlungsborn and Rerik is the one stretch of this part of Mecklenburg that has any drama. The land here rises into a low cliff of clay and sand, a metre-by-metre record of the ice age, and the Baltic keeps chewing at it so that trees lean out over the edge and every storm drops a slice onto the beach. Stand back from the lip when you take a photo. The ground is softer than it looks, and the sea does not care about a view.
Read the complete Rerik cliffs photo stop write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 27 km into the recorded legs you reach Rerik cliffs photo stop. Next is Neukloster inland sweep.
4. Neukloster inland sweep
Neukloster is a small town of just over four thousand people, tucked between woods and a lake south of the Baltic coast, and it is named for the thing that made it. In the early thirteenth century a Cistercian nunnery was founded here, and its brick church still stands at the centre, a good example of the Gothic building style that spread along this part of the Baltic. Brick instead of stone because there is no stone here: the glaciers left clay, so the whole region learned to bake its own building material and became very good at it.
Read the complete Neukloster inland sweep write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Neukloster inland sweep, late in the day. Next is Back to Bad Doberan.
5. Back to Bad Doberan
Planning note
Back at Back to Bad Doberan. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Rerik cliffs photo stop to Neukloster inland sweep
This Rerik cliffs photo stop → Neukloster inland sweep stretch is for rhythm and scenery. Keep your head up, let the view breathe, and resist turning every open bend into a target. Stop once properly rather than half-stopping everywhere.
Neukloster inland sweep to Back to Bad Doberan
Neukloster inland sweep → Back to Bad Doberan is the reward section in Wismar. Look through the bends, use legal pull-offs for photos and keep a little margin for tractors, cyclists and damp shade. The best ride here is smooth, not noisy.
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