Why this ride
243 km one way from Skalica - plan on about 3 h 24 of riding. It crosses from Slovakia into Austria - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Gesäuse National Park Weekend · part 3
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 243 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 3 h 24
- Journey
- One way; return travel is separate
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.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Vienna / Eastern Alps
The border here is the Morava river, which runs through flat meadows and woods, and it forms part of the frontier of the Záhorie, a region of sandy plains and pine forests between the Small Carpathians and Moravia. Until 1993 this was not an international border at all, since Czechs and Slovaks lived in a single state, and the crossing is now invisible, a bridge and a sign.
Read the complete Skalica, on the way back write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Vienna / Eastern Alps is where the day begins. Next is Gesäuse National Park Weekend checkpoint 8.
2. Near Perchtoldsdorf
Perchtoldsdorf lies on the very edge of Vienna, where the city's southern suburbs meet the first hills of the Vienna Woods, and it has the relaxed atmosphere of a wine village rather than a suburb. The hills behind the town are covered in vineyards, and the old streets are lined with Heurigen, the traditional wine taverns where producers serve their own new wine with simple cold food. When a Heuriger is open, it hangs a bunch of pine branches over the door, a sign that has been used for centuries.
Read the complete Near Perchtoldsdorf write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Finish at Gesäuse National Park Weekend checkpoint 8. That is the ride. Next is Back to Gesäuse.
3. Back to Gesäuse
This one is on the western shore of the Neusiedler See, the great steppe lake on the Austrian-Hungarian border, which is about as far in character from the Gesäuse's limestone walls as you can get without leaving Austria. Where the Gesäuse is vertical, the Neusiedler See is horizontal: a shallow lake, rarely more than a couple of metres deep, fringed by one of the largest reed beds in Europe, with the Hungarian plain vanishing into haze on the far side.
Read the complete Gesäuse write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
The route ends here after 243 km.