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High Coast Route

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Recorded distance
104 km
Riding-time estimate
1 h 25
Journey
Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis

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Why this ride

Repeated coastal bends, headlands and frequent viewpoint stops. It also links naturally to High Coast and Kvarken Archipelago.

Access context

Check gravel share, wildlife risk and seasonal road works. Specific flag: seasonal.

Seasonal context

May-Sep

Waypoint introductions and full write-ups

  1. 1. Härnösand

    The land around Härnösand is still rising. When the ice sheet that covered Scandinavia melted at the end of the last ice age, the earth's crust, freed from the weight, began to spring back, and here on the High Coast it has risen by almost three hundred metres, the greatest such uplift known anywhere. That is why the High Coast, which starts just north of town, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site: ancient beaches and shorelines now lie high on the hillsides, far above the sea, and the land is still rising by almost a centimetre a year.

    Read the complete Härnösand write-up.

    Recorded stop-planning note

    May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.

    Planning note

    Härnösand sits at 0 km, early in the day. Next is Örnsköldsvik.

  2. 2. Örnsköldsvik

    A ski jump towers right over the middle of Örnsköldsvik, rising from a wooded hill called Paradiskullen, and it tells you a lot about this town on the northern edge of the High Coast. Ö-vik, as everyone calls it, is a sporting place, famous above all for ice hockey: the local club MODO has produced a remarkable number of stars, including Peter Forsberg, one of the finest players of his generation. With more than thirty thousand people, it is the largest town between Sundsvall and Umeå, set at the head of a bay among forested hills.

    Read the complete Örnsköldsvik write-up.

    Recorded stop-planning note

    May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.

    Planning note

    Örnsköldsvik comes up 104 km in.

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