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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
curated scenic road. high alpine, historic route, gorges. A one-way ride of 73 km, Brig to Domodossola - roughly 1 h 23 in the saddle. The highest point is about 2,500 m. Simplon Pass is subject to seasonal closure - check it is open before you set off. It crosses from Switzerland into Italy - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 16 km this is Simplon Pass Road, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Check the pass is open before you commit to it.
Brig is a small town with a big palace, and its position at the foot of the Simplon Pass gives it a significance out of proportion to its size. It sits in the upper Rhône valley in the canton of Valais, where the river runs west to Lake Geneva, and a route over the mountains to Italy has existed here since Roman times. The Stockalperschloss, the biggest private residence in Switzerland when it was completed in the late seventeenth century, was built by Kaspar Jodok von Stockalper, a merchant who controlled the Simplon trade and became the richest man in the country. With its three onion-domed towers, named for the Three Kings, it dominates the old town and is open to visitors.
Read the complete Brig write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Simplon Pass Road point 1 sits at 0 km, early in the day. Next is Simplon Pass Road point 2.
Simplon Pass Road point 2 comes up 14 km in. Next is Simplon Pass Road point 3.
Brig is a small town with a big palace, and its position at the foot of the Simplon Pass gives it a significance out of proportion to its size. It sits in the upper Rhône valley in the canton of Valais, where the river runs west to Lake Geneva, and a route over the mountains to Italy has existed here since Roman times. The Stockalperschloss, the biggest private residence in Switzerland when it was completed in the late seventeenth century, was built by Kaspar Jodok von Stockalper, a merchant who controlled the Simplon trade and became the richest man in the country. With its three onion-domed towers, named for the Three Kings, it dominates the old town and is open to visitors.
Read the complete Brig write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
27 km in you reach Simplon Pass Road point 3. Next is Simplon Pass Road point 4.
Domodossola is the Italian doorstep of the Simplon, a town of about eighteen thousand that sits at the junction of several Alpine valleys in the northern Piedmont, at the point where the Ossola valley opens toward Lake Maggiore. For centuries it has been a place of passage, with merchants, pilgrims and armies crossing the mountains by the Simplon road, and its old centre, built around the Piazza Mercato, still has the arcades, wooden balconies and frescoed houses of a market town. The weekly market is lively, and local cheeses, cured meats and the sweet wines of the valley are for sale.
Read the complete Domodossola write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Simplon Pass Road point 4, late in the day.