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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From Piraquara it runs 158 km to Piraquara; allow about 3 h 45 of riding. It goes by way of Zone & State Park Pau Oco Turistical Prese, Guaraguacu Ecological Station and back through Zone & State Park Pau Oco Turistical Prese. The line favours views over speed.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 25 km this is Estrada da Graciosa, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
There are two ways down from Curitiba to the sea, and both are worth knowing. The modern highway, the BR-277, hurtles down the Serra do Mar in a series of viaducts and tunnels, and the old road, the Estrada da Graciosa, built in the nineteenth century, winds through the same forest on cobblestones, with bends so tight and views so green that bikers talk about it for years. The Serra do Mar is a steep coastal range, covered in Atlantic Forest, with clouds that cling to the peaks, and Pico do Marumbi, at about fifteen hundred metres, is the rocky summit that dominates the skyline.
Read the complete Pico do Marumbi State Park write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Pico do Marumbi State Park is where the day begins. Next is Zone & State Park Pau Oco Turistical Prese.
In 1873, the province of Paraná in southern Brazil opened a road down the Serra do Mar from Curitiba to the coast, and it is still there, paved with stone setts, winding through the Atlantic forest in more than a dozen kilometres of bends. The Serra do Mar here is part of the Atlantic Forest South-East Reserves, listed by UNESCO in 1999, one of the largest remaining stretches of a forest that once covered much of the Brazilian coast.
Read the complete Zone & State Park Pau Oco Turistical Prese write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Zone & State Park Pau Oco Turistical Prese comes up about 25 km into the recorded legs. Next is Guaraguacu Ecological Station.
On the coast of Paraná, between the port city of Paranaguá and the beaches of Pontal do Paraná, the Guaraguaçu Ecological Station protects a stretch of lowland forest, mangrove and sandy restinga along the Guaraguaçu river. It belongs to the network of Atlantic Forest reserves that UNESCO lists for the south and southeast of Brazil, here around the Paranaguá bay, one of the best preserved estuaries on the Brazilian coast. Access to the station itself is restricted, as ecological stations are mainly for research, but the surrounding landscape gives a strong sense of what it protects.
Read the complete Guaraguacu Ecological Station write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 83 km into the recorded legs you reach Guaraguacu Ecological Station. Next is back through Zone & State Park Pau Oco Turistical Prese.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Zone & State Park Pau Oco Turistical Prese write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Zone & State Park Pau Oco Turistical Prese, late in the day. Next is Pico do Marumbi State Park.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Pico do Marumbi State Park write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Pico do Marumbi State Park. That is the ride.
Pico do Marumbi State Park → Zone & State Park Pau Oco Turistical Prese is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zone & State Park Pau Oco Turistical Prese → Guaraguacu Ecological Station is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Guaraguaçu Ecological Station → back through Zone & State Park Pau Oco Turistical Prese is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Zone & State Park Pau Oco Turistical Prese → Pico do Marumbi State Park is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.