CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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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curated scenic road. high alpine, lakes, hairpins. A one-way ride of 28 km, Davos to Zernez - roughly 29 min in the saddle. The highest point is about 2,400 m. Fluela Pass is subject to seasonal closure - check it is open before you set off. The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 9 km this is Grand Tour of Switzerland, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Check the pass is open before you commit to it.
At about 1,560 metres, Davos is often called the highest town in Europe, and it is certainly one of the most unusual. It lies in a long, broad valley of Graubünden, with ski slopes on both sides, a lake, a main street that looks like a motorway, and a mix of grand old sanatoria, apartment blocks and hotels that tells the story of the town.
Read the complete Davos write-up.
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Fluela Pass Road point 1 sits at 0 km, early in the day. Next is Fluela Pass Road point 2.
Flüela tops out at 2,383 metres, a wide, bare saddle between the Schwarzhorn and the Weisshorn, and the first thing you notice when you get there is the silence. The road from Davos has climbed through the Flüela valley, first through pine and larch, then out onto open pasture, and now you are in a stony world of scree, snowfields and two small dark lakes beside the road. The old hospice at the top, a solid stone building, has served travellers for generations and still serves coffee, soup and cake to riders who arrive cold.
Read the complete Near Davos write-up.
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Fluela Pass Road point 2 comes up 10 km in. Next is Fluela Pass Road point 3.
Zernez is a small village in the Lower Engadine, at about fifteen hundred metres, and the gateway to Switzerland's only national park. The Inn river runs through the valley, a cold green stream fed by glaciers, and the surrounding mountains are dark with larch and pine. The village has an unusual look for the Alps, with white houses decorated with sgraffito, patterns scratched in plaster, and small windows set deep into thick walls, typical of Engadine architecture. Most of the older buildings date from after 1872, when a fire destroyed much of the village, and the rebuilt streets are wider than most in the valley.
Read the complete Near Zernez write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
28 km in you reach Fluela Pass Road point 3.