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.
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From Pontal do Paraná it runs 262 km to Pontal do Paraná; allow about 5 h 33 of riding. The stops in between: Pico do Marumbi State Park, Guaraquecaba Ecological Station and back through Pico do Marumbi State Park. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 54 km this is Estrada da Graciosa, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
On the coast of Paraná, between the port city of Paranaguá and the beaches of Pontal do Paraná, the Guaraguaçu Ecological Station protects a stretch of lowland forest, mangrove and sandy restinga along the Guaraguaçu river. It belongs to the network of Atlantic Forest reserves that UNESCO lists for the south and southeast of Brazil, here around the Paranaguá bay, one of the best preserved estuaries on the Brazilian coast. Access to the station itself is restricted, as ecological stations are mainly for research, but the surrounding landscape gives a strong sense of what it protects.
Read the complete Guaraguacu Ecological Station write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Guaraguaçu Ecological Station is where the day begins. Next is Pico do Marumbi State Park.
There are two ways down from Curitiba to the sea, and both are worth knowing. The modern highway, the BR-277, hurtles down the Serra do Mar in a series of viaducts and tunnels, and the old road, the Estrada da Graciosa, built in the nineteenth century, winds through the same forest on cobblestones, with bends so tight and views so green that bikers talk about it for years. The Serra do Mar is a steep coastal range, covered in Atlantic Forest, with clouds that cling to the peaks, and Pico do Marumbi, at about fifteen hundred metres, is the rocky summit that dominates the skyline.
Read the complete Pico do Marumbi State Park write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Pico do Marumbi State Park comes up about 54 km into the recorded legs. Next is Guaraquecaba Ecological Station.
Guaraqueçaba is one of those places in Brazil where the road gives up before the forest does. It lies on the northern shore of the great bay of Paranaguá, on the coast of Paraná state, surrounded by mangroves, islands, tidal channels and the steep, forested slopes of the Serra do Mar. The ecological station protects a large area of mangroves and coastal forest, and it is part of the Atlantic Forest South-East Reserves, a World Heritage Site that preserves some of the best remaining stretches of the Mata Atlântica, a forest that once covered much of Brazil's coast and has now been reduced to a fraction of its former extent.
Read the complete Guaraquecaba Ecological Station write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 130 km into the recorded legs you reach Guaraquecaba Ecological Station. Next is back through Pico do Marumbi State Park.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Pico do Marumbi State Park write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Pico do Marumbi State Park, late in the day. Next is Guaraguacu Ecological Station.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Guaraguacu Ecological Station write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Guaraguacu Ecological Station. That is the ride.
Guaraguaçu Ecological Station → Pico do Marumbi State Park is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Pico do Marumbi State Park → Guaraquecaba Ecological Station is 76 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Guaraquecaba Ecological Station → back through Pico do Marumbi State Park is 78 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Pico do Marumbi State Park → Guaraguacu Ecological Station is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.