CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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.
Lake air and mountain silhouettes without overdoing it. 109 km round from Rosenheim - plan on about 1 h 46 of riding. The stops in between: Chiemsee shore, Aschau mountain view and Miesbach roads. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,000 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The coast is the point of it.
Slow enough to look. The surface follows the shoreline, so the corners arrive where the water decided, not where an engineer did. Water arrives beside the road and stays for 42 km. The line follows the shore because there is nowhere else for it to go.
Rosenheim is the main town of the Inn valley south of Munich, a city of around sixty thousand people at the point where the Mangfall flows into the Inn. Its name means rose home, though the town grew rich on something less romantic: salt. For centuries salt from Bad Reichenhall travelled here through a pipeline of wooden pipes, was boiled in local pans and loaded onto boats on the Inn, and the merchants who handled it built the arcaded houses around Max-Josefs-Platz that still give the old centre its look. Television viewers may know it from a detective series, but the real thing is livelier and less murderous.
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Next is Chiemsee shore.
The Chiemsee is the biggest lake in Bavaria, so big that Bavarians call it the Bavarian Sea, and from the shore near Gstadt and Prien it looks like one, a wide pale expanse with the Alps behind it. Two islands sit in the middle. The Herreninsel carries the palace that Ludwig II began building in the 1870s as his copy of Versailles, never finished, and the smaller Fraueninsel has a Benedictine abbey that was founded in the eighth century and is still occupied by nuns. The islands are reached by ferry from Prien, and on the road to the pier, a little steam railway runs from the town to the harbour, an old-fashioned way to start an excursion.
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Chiemsee shore comes up about 24 km into the recorded legs. Next is Aschau mountain view.
Aschau im Chiemgau lies at the mouth of the Prien valley, where the river leaves the mountains for the plain, and it has the best view of the Kampenwand, the jagged limestone ridge that stands over the Chiemsee region. The summit reaches about 1,670 metres, and a cable car from the village takes walkers to the top. Seen from the road at the right time, with low sun on the pale cliffs and shadows in the gullies, it is a classic Bavarian skyline. The village has about five thousand people, a few shops and a petrol station, with Frasdorf, three thousand people, just along the road.
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about 37 km into the recorded legs you reach Aschau mountain view. Next is Miesbach return roads.
Miesbach is the main town of the Oberland district of the same name, a place of about eleven thousand people on the Schlierach river, where the foothills rise from the plain. It sits in the Leitzach valley country that links the lakes of Schliersee and Tegernsee with Munich, and the roads leading out of it, to the capital to the north and to the lakes to the south, are among the pleasantest in Bavaria for a return ride. The town has everything you could need: petrol stations, supermarkets, bakeries, banks and a railway to Munich.
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Miesbach return roads, late in the day. Next is Back to Rosenheim fuel.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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Back at Back to Rosenheim fuel. That is the ride.
This Aschau mountain view → Miesbach return roads 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.