Why this ride
70 km from Peseux to Peseux, about 1 h 01 of riding. On the way it passes Port-Conty, Baie de Clendy and back through Port-Conty. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Les Graviers and Baie de Clendy
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 70 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 01
- 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.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Scenic road chapters
Jura Crest Scenic Road
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 14 km this is Jura Crest Scenic Road, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 14 km
- Named road
- Jura Crest Scenic Road
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Les Graviers
Auvernier is a wine village with its feet in the water. Its old stone houses, cellars and narrow lanes climb from the shore of Lake Neuchâtel into vineyards, and the lake bed just off its little harbour holds the remains of prehistoric villages. Les Graviers is one of the sites in the UNESCO listing of prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps, where archaeologists have found the traces of Neolithic and Bronze Age settlements, with wooden piles, tools, pottery and food remains preserved in the lake mud. Many of the finds from the region are displayed at the Laténium, a superb archaeology museum by the lake at Hauterive, on the other side of Neuchâtel.
Read the complete Les Graviers write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Les Graviers is where the day begins. Next is Port-Conty.
2. Port-Conty
Under the shallow water off Port-Conty lie the remains of villages that were built on stilts more than five thousand years ago, and you will see none of them from the shore. The site, near Saint-Aubin-Sauges on the north-western side of Lake Neuchâtel, is one of the many locations in the UNESCO listing of prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps. Archaeologists have found posts, tools, pottery and remains of food preserved in the lake mud, painting a picture of Neolithic and Bronze Age communities who farmed, fished and built their houses along the water's edge.
Read the complete Port-Conty write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Port-Conty comes up about 14 km into the recorded legs. Next is Baie de Clendy.
3. Baie de Clendy
At the southern tip of Lake Neuchâtel, just east of Yverdon-les-Bains, the shore curves into a shallow bay fringed with reeds, poplars and a beach where local families swim in summer. Behind it, in a meadow, stands a double row of tall grey stones. These are the menhirs of Clendy, raised by Neolithic farmers more than five thousand years ago and re-erected in the twentieth century after they were found toppled in the ground. Offshore and along the bay lie the remains of lakeside settlements of the same era, part of the UNESCO listing of prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps.
Read the complete Baie de Clendy write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 35 km into the recorded legs you reach Baie de Clendy. Next is back through Port-Conty.
4. back through Port-Conty
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Port-Conty write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Port-Conty, late in the day. Next is Les Graviers.
5. Les Graviers
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Les Graviers write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Les Graviers. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Les Graviers to Port-Conty
Les Graviers → Port-Conty is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Port-Conty to Baie de Clendy
Port-Conty → Baie de Clendy is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Baie de Clendy to back through Port-Conty
Baie de Clendy → back through Port-Conty is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Port-Conty to Les Graviers
back through Port-Conty → Les Graviers is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.