Why this ride
A 99 km round trip from Klaipėda - roughly 1 h 58 in the saddle. It goes by way of Curonian Spit and back through Curonian Spit. It crosses from Lithuania into Russia - carry ID and check the toll rules.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Klaipeda day out · Curonian Spit
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 99 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 58
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
The recorded total and the leg detail need reconciliation. Inspect the leg notes before using this record for timing or navigation. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Scenic road chapters
Curonian Spit Road
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 1 km this is Curonian Spit Road, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 1 km
- Named road
- Curonian Spit Road
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Klaipeda
Klaipėda is the sea gate of Lithuania, and for most of its history it belonged to somebody else. The Teutonic Knights built a castle at the mouth of the Danė river in 1252, and for seven centuries the town was known as Memel, part of Prussia and then Germany, until it was returned to Lithuania in 1923. Traces of the old name and culture remain in the half-timbered warehouses of the old town, a few of which have been carefully restored, and in a bronze statue of Ännchen von Tharau, the heroine of a seventeenth century German song, standing in the market square.
Read the complete Klaipeda write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Klaipeda is where the day begins. Next is Curonian Spit.
2. Curonian Spit
Nothing prepares you for the sand. The Curonian Spit is a sliver of land nearly a hundred kilometres long, split between Lithuania and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, lying between the Baltic Sea and the Curonian Lagoon and never more than a few kilometres wide. Great dunes, among the highest moving sand hills in Europe, run along its length, with pine forest holding the rest in place. UNESCO recognised it as a cultural landscape in 2000, because people have fought to keep this strip alive for centuries.
Read the complete Curonian Spit write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Curonian Spit comes up 33 km in.
3. Curonian Spit
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Curonian Spit write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
66 km in you reach Curonian Spit. Next is back through Curonian Spit.
4. back through Curonian Spit
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Curonian Spit write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Curonian Spit, late in the day. Next is Klaipeda.
5. Klaipeda
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Klaipeda write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Klaipeda. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Klaipeda to Curonian Spit
Klaipeda → Curonian Spit is 66 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Curonian Spit to Klaipeda
back through Curonian Spit → Klaipeda is 66 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
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