the best biking in Bavaria

I should have called some of my blogs something catchy - this is the best place we have found on our travels I think, and few English folk know of it.  21/06/2014 we did the best biking road in Bavaria...there are loads of bikers riding it.

This is the panoramic road in the Bavarian Alps called Rossfeld scenic road. Bikers come from all over to ride it, as the experience and the views are amazing. At the summit you have views of mountains at every side, all rising over 2000 metres. 

As it costs the administration of Obersalzburg quite a bit to keep the road clear, especially in winter, it is a toll road. There is a nice map of the area.

Usually it costs €4 for a bike and €7 for a car with two adults, but there was a car rally on and half of the road was closed. So we went to the summit for €2 and came back down the same way. Lovely church on the way up.

With Carol prodding me to stop at every opportunity for the view and the photo, we took it a a leisurely pace. The road rises about 3000 feet from the Berchtesgaden valley to the summit, where there is parking for several hundred cars. The summit is at 5100 feet, and you get there by a sequence of hairpin bends, good twisty road, and over a dozen or so bridges.  The nearest mountain is Hoher Goll at 2522 metres and is very close.

When we stopped going down for more pictures I took these of the bike, as I was quite pleased with how it got us up some pretty steep sections of road. Carol took the chance of a lie down..