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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
308 km from Windischgarsten to Windischgarsten, about 4 h 40 of riding. It goes by way of Wallsee - Kastell, Blashausgraben - Wachtturm and back through Wallsee - Kastell. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
85 km on Kalkalpen - Hintergebirg → Wallsee - Kastell.
The Kalkalpen National Park is the largest forest wilderness in Austria, and the Hintergebirge is one of its quiet corners, a limestone mountain range in Upper Austria with steep wooded slopes, deep valleys and very few roads. It is a landscape of beech, spruce and fir, with some of the oldest unmanaged beech forest in the Alps, so valuable that it is included in the UNESCO listing of ancient beech forests of Europe. Walking in it feels like walking in the Europe before the roads.
Read the complete Kalkalpen - Hintergebirg write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Kalkalpen - Hintergebirg is where the day begins. Next is Wallsee - Kastell.
Wallsee is one of those Danube villages that people cycle through on the long riverside path without guessing how much history sits under their tyres. A castle rises on a rock above the river, and beneath and around the village lie the remains of a Roman fort that guarded this stretch of the Danube frontier. It is part of the Danube Limes World Heritage Site, inscribed in 2021, which follows the river from Bavaria through Austria to Slovakia, a line of forts, watchtowers and towns that held the northern edge of the empire for centuries.
Read the complete Wallsee - Kastell write-up.
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Wallsee - Kastell comes up about 85 km into the recorded legs. Next is Blashausgraben - Wachtturm.
The Wachau is the most beautiful stretch of the Danube in Austria, a narrow valley between Melk and Krems where the river winds between steep hills covered in vineyards and forest, with castles, abbeys and villages on its banks. It is a UNESCO World Heritage site in its own right. Near the village of Aggsbach, on the southern bank, a small Roman watchtower stood in the Blashausgraben, a side valley, as part of the Danube frontier of the Roman Empire.
Read the complete Blashausgraben - Wachtturm write-up.
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about 150 km into the recorded legs you reach Blashausgraben - Wachtturm. Next is back through Wallsee - Kastell.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Wallsee - Kastell write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Wallsee - Kastell, late in the day. Next is Kalkalpen - Hintergebirg.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kalkalpen - Hintergebirg write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Kalkalpen - Hintergebirg. That is the ride.
Kalkalpen - Hintergebirg → Wallsee - Kastell is 85 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Wallsee - Kastell → Blashausgraben - Wachtturm is 65 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Blashausgraben - Wachtturm → back through Wallsee - Kastell is 74 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Wallsee - Kastell → Kalkalpen - Hintergebirg is 84 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.