Why this ride
A 146 km round trip from Trørød - roughly 3 h 00 in the saddle. The stops in between: The par force hunting landscape in North Z, Kronborg Castle, Grønholtvangen south of Grønholt Vang and back through Kronborg Castle.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn and Grønholtvangen south of Grønholt Vang
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 146 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 3 h 00
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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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Scenic road chapters
The par force hunting landscape in North Z → Kronborg Castle
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 29 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 27 km
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn
Danish kings loved to hunt, and in the late seventeenth century they laid out forests north of Copenhagen in a geometric pattern of straight paths radiating from central points, designed for par force hunting, in which riders and hounds chased a stag until it was exhausted. Jægersborg Dyrehave, the deer park, and Jægersborg Hegn are included in UNESCO's inscription of the par force hunting landscape in North Zealand, together with forests further north. The star-shaped network of rides is still visible, with numbered stone posts at the intersections that helped the hunters find their way.
Read the complete Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn is where the day begins. Next is The par force hunting landscape in North Z.
2. The par force hunting landscape in North Z
Par force hunting sounds like a French affectation, and it was. The kings of Denmark in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries imported the style from the French court, in which riders on horseback and packs of hounds chased a stag until it was exhausted. To make it work, they needed a landscape designed for speed, and in North Zealand the royal foresters cut long, straight rides through the woods, many of them meeting at star-shaped crossings, so that the hunters could see the quarry and keep control of the chase. The pattern is still visible in the forests of Gribskov and Store Dyrehave, and UNESCO listed the landscape in 2015.
Read the complete The par force hunting landscape in North Z write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
The par force hunting landscape in North Z comes up about 25 km into the recorded legs. Next is Kronborg Castle.
3. Kronborg Castle
Hamlet never lived at Kronborg, but Shakespeare put him there, and the castle has been Elsinore in the imagination of the world ever since. It stands on a point of land at Helsingør where the Øresund narrows to about four kilometres, with Sweden clearly visible across the water, and for centuries it controlled one of the most important shipping lanes in Europe. King Frederik II built the castle in its Renaissance form in the 1570s and 1580s, and every ship passing through the strait had to stop and pay the Sound Dues, a toll that made the Danish crown rich for over four hundred years until it was abolished in 1857. Kronborg was inscribed on the UNESCO list in 2000.
Read the complete Kronborg Castle write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 52 km into the recorded legs you reach Kronborg Castle. Next is Grønholtvangen south of Grønholt Vang.
4. Grønholtvangen south of Grønholt Vang
North of Copenhagen the Danish landscape turns into a mixture of beech woods, lakes and open meadows, a fragment of what the whole country looked like before the farmers took over. Grønholt Vang belongs to that world, a patch of countryside near Hillerød and Fredensborg in north Zealand, where woodland and open ground sit side by side. The word vang is old Danish for a field or open ground, and it hints at the pattern.
Read the complete Grønholtvangen south of Grønholt Vang write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Grønholtvangen south of Grønholt Vang, about halfway. Next is back through Kronborg Castle.
5. back through Kronborg Castle
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kronborg Castle write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Kronborg Castle sits at 105 km, about halfway. Next is back through The par force hunting landscape in North Z.
6. back through The par force hunting landscape in North Z
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The par force hunting landscape in North Z write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through The par force hunting landscape in North Z comes up about 121 km into the recorded legs. Next is Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn.
7. Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn closes the day.
Leg by leg
Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn to The par force hunting landscape in North Z
Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn → The par force hunting landscape in North Z is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The par force hunting landscape in North Z to Kronborg Castle
The par force hunting landscape in North Z → Kronborg Castle is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kronborg Castle to Grønholtvangen south of Grønholt Vang
Kronborg Castle → Grønholtvangen south of Grønholt Vang is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Grønholtvangen south of Grønholt Vang to back through Kronborg Castle
Grønholtvangen south of Grønholt Vang → back through Kronborg Castle is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Kronborg Castle to back through The par force hunting landscape in North Z
back through Kronborg Castle → back through The par force hunting landscape in North Z is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The par force hunting landscape in North Z to Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn
back through The par force hunting landscape in North Z → Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.