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 Lomonosov it runs 284 km to Lomonosov; allow about 4 h 57 of riding. The stops in between: Peterhofskaya Road, Park «The Menagerie», Koltushskoe Highway and back through Park «The Menagerie». It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 38 km this is Saint Petersburg Imperial Shore, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
The south shore of the Gulf of Finland west of St Petersburg is a strip of dachas, palaces and old military ground, and the place marked here as Maximov's Datcha sits within it, a couple of kilometres from the town of Lomonosov.
Read the complete The Maximov's Datcha write-up.
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The Maximov's Datcha is where the day begins. Next is Peterhofskaya Road.
Peterhofskaya Road was once the grandest road out of St Petersburg. Running southwest from the city along the shore of the Gulf of Finland toward Strelna and Peterhof, it was lined in the eighteenth century with country estates, dachas and palaces built by the nobility, who wanted to be close to the imperial residences along the coast. Peter the Great started the trend, granting plots to courtiers along the road, and the result was a chain of estates with gardens, parks and ponds stretching for miles. Many of these estates survive in some form, and the road and its surroundings are part of the UNESCO listing of the historic centre of St Petersburg and related groups of monuments.
Read the complete Peterhofskaya Road write-up.
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Peterhofskaya Road comes up about 38 km into the recorded legs. Next is Park «The Menagerie».
Gatchina is one of the great imperial estates ringing St Petersburg, and the Menagerie, the Zverinets, is its wild back garden: a large walled tract of forest north of the palace that was laid out in the eighteenth century as a hunting reserve, with deer and other game kept for the court. Today it is mostly woods, ponds and paths, and on a hot day it is the coolest place within reach.
Read the complete Park «The Menagerie» write-up.
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about 76 km into the recorded legs you reach Park «The Menagerie». Next is Koltushskoe Highway.
East of Saint Petersburg, the Koltushskoe highway runs through suburban sprawl and countryside toward the village of Koltushi, and it belongs to a memorial landscape that ties the whole region together: the Green Belt of Glory, a chain of monuments marking the defensive line around Leningrad during the siege of 1941 to 1944, when nearly nine hundred days of blockade cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of civilians. Monuments, steles and memorials stand along the roads where the front lines and supply routes ran, including the Road of Life across Lake Ladoga.
Read the complete Koltushskoe Highway write-up.
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Koltushskoe Highway, about halfway. Next is back through Park «The Menagerie».
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Park «The Menagerie» write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Park «The Menagerie» sits at 185 km, about halfway. Next is back through Peterhofskaya Road.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Peterhofskaya Road write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Peterhofskaya Road comes up about 243 km into the recorded legs. Next is The Maximov's Datcha.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Maximov's Datcha write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The Maximov's Datcha closes the day.
The Maximov's Datcha → Peterhofskaya Road is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Peterhofskaya Road → Park «The Menagerie» is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Park «The Menagerie» → Koltushskoe Highway is 67 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Koltushskoe Highway → back through Park «The Menagerie» is 62 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Park «The Menagerie» → back through Peterhofskaya Road is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Peterhofskaya Road → The Maximov's Datcha is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.