Why this ride
From Trørød it runs 195 km to Trørød; allow about 3 h 54 of riding. The stops in between: Store Dyrehave, Kronborg Castle, Grønholtvangen north of Grønholt Vang and back through Grønholtvangen north of Grønholt Vang.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn and Kronborg Castle
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 195 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 3 h 54
- 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
Store Dyrehave → Kronborg Castle
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 31 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 34 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
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Planning note
Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn is where the day begins. Next is Store Dyrehave.
2. Store Dyrehave
North of Copenhagen the royal family once hunted on a scale that reshaped the landscape, and Store Dyrehave, the Great Deer Park, near Hillerød, is a piece of that design. The forest is cut by straight rides, long avenues that radiate like the spokes of a wheel, so that horsemen and hounds could follow a stag at speed without losing sight of it. This kind of hunting, called par force, was fashionable at European courts in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the Danish kings built an entire landscape for it, now recognised by UNESCO as the Par Force Hunting Landscape in North Zealand.
Read the complete Store Dyrehave write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Store Dyrehave 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 59 km into the recorded legs you reach Kronborg Castle. Next is Grønholtvangen north of Grønholt Vang.
4. Grønholtvangen north of Grønholt Vang
North Zealand is the part of Denmark where kings went to relax. The coast road runs up the Øresund from Copenhagen to Helsingør, past beach villas and harbours, and inland, behind the first ridge, lies a quieter country of beech woods, lakes and rolling fields around Fredensborg and Lake Esrum. Grønholtvangen is a stretch of open land and woodland north of Grønholt Vang, a name that suggests an old common, in a landscape that was shaped by royal hunting and by the great beech forest of Gribskov, one of the largest in Denmark. The ride belongs to Kronborg Castle, the Renaissance fortress at Helsingør that Shakespeare turned into Elsinore, the home of Hamlet.
Read the complete Grønholtvangen north of Grønholt Vang write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Grønholtvangen north of Grønholt Vang, about halfway.
5. Kronborg Castle
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kronborg Castle write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Kronborg Castle sits at 102 km, about halfway. Next is back through Grønholtvangen north of Grønholt Vang.
6. back through Grønholtvangen north of Grønholt Vang
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Grønholtvangen north of Grønholt Vang write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
back through Grønholtvangen north of Grønholt Vang comes up about 116 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Kronborg Castle.
7. back through Kronborg Castle
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kronborg Castle write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
about 135 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Kronborg Castle. Next is back through Store Dyrehave.
8. back through Store Dyrehave
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Store Dyrehave write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
back through Store Dyrehave, late in the day. Next is Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn.
9. 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
The route ends here after 195 km.
Leg by leg
Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn to Store Dyrehave
Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn → Store Dyrehave is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Store Dyrehave to Kronborg Castle
Store Dyrehave → Kronborg Castle is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kronborg Castle to Grønholtvangen north of Grønholt Vang
Kronborg Castle → Grønholtvangen north of Grønholt Vang is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Grønholtvangen north of Grønholt Vang to Kronborg Castle
Grønholtvangen north of Grønholt Vang → Kronborg Castle is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kronborg Castle to back through Grønholtvangen north of Grønholt Vang
Kronborg Castle → back through Grønholtvangen north of Grønholt Vang is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Grønholtvangen north of Grønholt Vang to back through Kronborg Castle
back through Grønholtvangen north of Grønholt Vang → back through Kronborg Castle is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Kronborg Castle to back through Store Dyrehave
back through Kronborg Castle → back through Store Dyrehave is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Store Dyrehave to Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn
back through Store Dyrehave → Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.