Why this ride
123 km from Lillerød to Lillerød, about 2 h 10 of riding. On the way it passes Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn, Kronborg Castle and back through Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Store Dyrehave and Kronborg Castle
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 123 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 2 h 10
- 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
Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn → Kronborg Castle
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 36 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 36 km
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Store Dyrehave
North of Copenhagen the royal family once hunted on a scale that reshaped the landscape, and Store Dyrehave, the Great Deer Park, near Hillerød, is a piece of that design. The forest is cut by straight rides, long avenues that radiate like the spokes of a wheel, so that horsemen and hounds could follow a stag at speed without losing sight of it. This kind of hunting, called par force, was fashionable at European courts in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the Danish kings built an entire landscape for it, now recognised by UNESCO as the Par Force Hunting Landscape in North Zealand.
Read the complete Store Dyrehave write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Store Dyrehave is where the day begins. Next is Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn.
2. 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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn comes up about 25 km into the recorded legs. Next is Kronborg Castle.
3. Kronborg Castle
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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 61 km into the recorded legs you reach Kronborg Castle. Next is back through Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn.
4. back through Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn, late in the day. Next is Store Dyrehave.
5. Store Dyrehave
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Store Dyrehave write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Store Dyrehave. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Store Dyrehave to Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn
Store Dyrehave → Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn to Kronborg Castle
Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn → Kronborg Castle is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kronborg Castle to back through Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn
Kronborg Castle → back through Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn to Store Dyrehave
back through Jægersborg Dyrehave and Jægersborg Hegn → Store Dyrehave is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.