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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A 92 km round trip from Helsingør - roughly 1 h 49 in the saddle. It goes by way of Grønholtvangen north of Grønholt Vang, Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn and back through Grønholtvangen north of Grønholt Vang. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 24 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
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.
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Kronborg Castle is where the day begins. Next is 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.
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Grønholtvangen north of Grønholt Vang comes up about 18 km into the recorded legs. Next is 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.
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about 46 km into the recorded legs you reach Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn. Next is back through Grønholtvangen north of Grønholt Vang.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Grønholtvangen north of Grønholt Vang write-up.
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back through Grønholtvangen north of Grønholt Vang, late in the day. Next is Kronborg Castle.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kronborg Castle write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Kronborg Castle. That is the ride.
Kronborg Castle → Grønholtvangen north of Grønholt Vang is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Grønholtvangen north of Grønholt Vang → Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn → back through Grønholtvangen north of Grønholt Vang is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Grønholtvangen north of Grønholt Vang → Kronborg Castle is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.