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 315 km round trip from Kronstadt - roughly 5 h 40 in the saddle. On the way it passes Primorskoe Highway, Sestroretsky Razliv, The Park «Alexandria» and back through Sestroretsky Razliv. It keeps close to the shore for long stretches.
67 km on The Coastal Fort «Reef» → Primorskoe Highway.
For about 59 km this is Saint Petersburg Imperial Shore, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it. Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast.
In the shallow, grey waters of the Gulf of Finland, a chain of fortified islands guards the sea approach to Saint Petersburg. Peter the Great founded the naval base of Kronstadt on Kotlin Island in 1703, and over the following two centuries forts were built on artificial islets and reefs to the north and south, to form a defensive screen. In many cases the forts are military or ruined, and visits require permission.
Read the complete The Coastal Fort «Reef» write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The Coastal Fort «Reef» is where the day begins. Next is Primorskoe Highway.
Zelenogorsk used to be Terijoki, a Finnish resort town on the Gulf of Finland, and it belonged to Finland until the Winter War of 1939 to 1940, when this stretch of the Karelian Isthmus passed to the Soviet Union. Before that, Terijoki was a place where Russian aristocrats and artists kept summer houses, and the wooden villas that survive among the pines still have some of that air. The Primorskoe highway runs north-west from Saint Petersburg along the shore to Vyborg, and this is the part of it where the road threads a sandy, forested coastal strip with dunes on one side and wet pinewoods on the other.
Read the complete Primorskoe Highway write-up.
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Primorskoe Highway comes up about 67 km into the recorded legs. Next is Sestroretsky Razliv.
Sestroretsk is a small town on the north shore of the Gulf of Finland, in a landscape of pine-covered dunes, shallow bays and lakes, and it has an industrial origin that surprises visitors. In 1721 Peter the Great founded an arms factory on the Sestra river here, and a dam created a broad reservoir to power it. That reservoir, Razliv, which means flood or spill, is the lake that gives the place its name. The water, ringed by reeds and birches, is a favourite spot for locals to swim, fish and walk.
Read the complete Sestroretsky Razliv write-up.
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about 106 km into the recorded legs you reach Sestroretsky Razliv. Next is The Park «Alexandria».
Alexandria Park is one part of the great Peterhof estate that most visitors skip, which is a good reason to visit it. Peterhof is known for its Grand Cascade and golden statues, the fountains that Peter the Great designed to rival Versailles, and for the crowds that pack the Lower Park in summer. Alexandria, on the other side of the road, is quieter, with winding paths, ponds, old oaks and a collection of small romantic buildings set among the trees.
Read the complete The Park «Alexandria» write-up.
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The Park «Alexandria», about halfway. Next is back through Sestroretsky Razliv.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sestroretsky Razliv write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Sestroretsky Razliv sits at 118 km, about halfway. Next is back through Primorskoe Highway.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Primorskoe Highway write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Primorskoe Highway comes up about 258 km into the recorded legs. Next is The Coastal Fort «Reef».
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Coastal Fort «Reef» write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The Coastal Fort «Reef» closes the day.
The Coastal Fort «Reef» → Primorskoe Highway is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Primorskoe Highway → Sestroretsky Razliv is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sestroretsky Razliv → The Park «Alexandria» is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Park «Alexandria» → back through Sestroretsky Razliv is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Sestroretsky Razliv → back through Primorskoe Highway is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Primorskoe Highway → The Coastal Fort «Reef» is 57 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.