Why this ride
A 166 km round trip from Strel'na - roughly 2 h 47 in the saddle. On the way it passes The Barrier of Pile, Fort «Seraya Loshad» and back through The Barrier of Pile. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
P.K.Alexandrov's Datcha and Fort «Seraya Loshad»
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 166 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 2 h 47
- 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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Scenic road chapters
Saint Petersburg Imperial Shore
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 37 km this is Saint Petersburg Imperial Shore, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 37 km
- Named road
- Saint Petersburg Imperial Shore
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. P.K.Alexandrov's Datcha
Strelna lies at the beginning of the road to Peterhof, on the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland, and its main feature is the Konstantinovsky Palace, begun in the reign of Peter the Great and named for a later grand duke, Konstantin. Like Peterhof, it was heavily damaged in the Second World War and later rebuilt, and in the early 2000s it was restored for the three-hundredth anniversary of Saint Petersburg. The park, with its canals and ponds, runs down toward the water, and the view across the gulf is wide and grey.
Read the complete P.K.Alexandrov's Datcha write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
P.K.Alexandrov's Datcha is where the day begins. Next is The Barrier of Pile.
2. The Barrier of Pile
Izhora is an old name for this part of the coast. Long before Saint Petersburg, the land between the Neva and the Luga belonged to the Izhorians, a small Finnic people who fished, farmed and served as pilots on the river, and whose language survives only in a few villages. Bolshaya Izhora, the Great Izhora, is a modest settlement on the shore, with a church, some dachas and a sea wall, and the nearest town of any size is Kronstadt across the water. The point on the map sits at the edge of the gulf, in reed and low scrub, where the shallows run out for hundreds of metres and the horizon is a thin line of cranes and chimneys.
Read the complete The Barrier of Pile write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
The Barrier of Pile comes up about 37 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fort «Seraya Loshad».
3. Fort «Seraya Loshad»
Along the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland, west of Saint Petersburg, a low strip of pine forest and sand runs for kilometres between the road and the sea. Fort Seraya Loshad, the Grey Horse, stands in this coastal country, eleven kilometres from the village of Lebyazhye, among a group of forts built for the defence of the capital and the naval base at Kronstadt.
Read the complete Fort «Seraya Loshad» write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 79 km into the recorded legs you reach Fort «Seraya Loshad». Next is back through The Barrier of Pile.
4. back through The Barrier of Pile
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Barrier of Pile write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through The Barrier of Pile, late in the day. Next is P.K.Alexandrov's Datcha, 34 km on.
5. P.K.Alexandrov's Datcha
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete P.K.Alexandrov's Datcha write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at P.K.Alexandrov's Datcha. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
P.K.Alexandrov's Datcha to The Barrier of Pile
P.K.Alexandrov's Datcha → The Barrier of Pile is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Barrier of Pile to Fort «Seraya Loshad»
The Barrier of Pile → Fort «Seraya Loshad» is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort «Seraya Loshad» to back through The Barrier of Pile
Fort «Seraya Loshad» → back through The Barrier of Pile is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Barrier of Pile to P.K.Alexandrov's Datcha
back through The Barrier of Pile → P.K.Alexandrov's Datcha is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.