All cycling routes

From cheerful, sleepy little Kaiserstuhl am Rhein through the turbulent Wehntal and Furttal industrial landscapes. After a stop at the Chatzensee lake, on to Switzerland’s throbbing business heart, «we are living Zurich» to plagiarize Zurich’s Euro 2008 slogan.

The perfect way to discover the Valais.

Mountainous route, primarily on paved roads with excellent views of the Linth valley and the nearby mountains. The highest section on the Fronalp coincides with the Schabziger Alpine Trail, a theme path illustrating a regional cheese specialty.

This 12 km excursion between the resort and upper pastures, of medium difficulty, is a last test before attacking the more difficult routes on offer in Crans-Montana. The route offers a good compromise between all terrains: tarmac, beaten earth and paths.

The route Col d'Anzana is a pleasant surprise for all riders conquering it for the first time. In spite of the relatively modest altitude of over 2,200 metres, the Col d'Anzana offers a fascinating descent down to Tirano incorporating a difference in altitude of 1,800 metres.

This loop featuring three major mountain passes starts in Meiringen, the village made famous by the Reichenbach Falls, where Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s fictional hero Sherlock Holmes dies – or does he?

Ancient flooding rights in the water meadows around Langenthal, the serene silence in the St. Urban Monastery gives you goose bumps, the roar of the motorway in Wiggertal shatters the dream, the tiny town of Sursee offers reassuring charm.

This itinerary along the Orbe plain and the Jura foothills offers the opportunity to have a break in a bucolic setting between vintners' villages and charming hamlets with the extraordinary panorama of the Alps in the background.

From the Gothic houses of Fribourg old town along the Schiffenensee, over peaceful, gently-undulating countryside to Murtensee. From medieval Murten over the bold bike bridge into Grosse Moos vegetable country and on to Erlach on the Bielersee.

In the saddle right across the whole Principality of Lichtenstein, with two spectacular mountain prizes: the Rheintal Bike route gives you exceptional views into the Rhine Valleyl between Buchs and Sargans.

From Yverdon through the Plaine de l’Orbe. Roman mosaics on the slopes, the Romanesque abbey church in Romainmôtier is serene. Your calf muscles are on fire but lovely deciduous forests soothe your soul.

For those, who prefer to go downhill instead of uphill, this tour is for you. The trail down the southeast flank of Parpan Rothorn makes every freerider's heart beat faster.

The Trans-Altarezia route ends with Italian ambiance and a pizza, as it should be. But first, the route from Poschiavo to Tirano offers a lot of biking fun.

The River Limmat winds steadfastly westward, the monastery looks on unperturbed. The Aargau mega shopping mile is only touched at its perimeter. Always following the Limmat, you reach the spa town of Baden.

With renewed energy following the curves of the Rhaetian Railway. The Albulapass, stony, windswept and beautiful. Perspiration is the price paid to enter sub-Alpine Engadine. The National Park, where nature is free to unfold, is nearly one hundred years old.

Above the terraced La Côte vineyards, below on the lake the market towns of Morges, Rolle, Nyon. Open shore becomes rarer, villas and yachts larger, soon cosmopolitan Geneva greets us with boulevards and its 140m-high water fountain «Jet d'eau».

From Lausanne up to Grand Mont. The hilly landscape is characterized by woodland and open fields, the villages by farmsteads with impressive archways. Along the Canal Oriental on to Yverdon-les-Bains, a lakeside spa town with a castle.

This loop starts in Aigle and goes in search of the classic passes of the Vaud Alps. The little town of Aigle in Switzerland’s Chablais region is home to the UCI, the International Cycling Union.

The route winds leisurely up through the typical meadow slopes of the seemingly untouched «Tal des Lichts» (Valley of Light) to the gentle pass into the Surselva. The descent to Trun leads via St. Martin on the sun terrace of Obersaxen.

Shingle-clad farm buildings scattered in a green, strongly contoured pre-Alpine landscape, a tough pedal over crests and through deep gullies, up on Chellenmoor a dragonfly buzzes over high moorland, the Churfirsten in Toggenburg greet from a distance.

Solid stone houses tell of harsh winters, the National Park protects unspoilt nature, the picture-book village of Guarda enchants tourists, the mineral springs in Scuol promise cyclists relief for aching muscles.

Past mighty Grandson Castle, alongside Lac de Neuchâtel’s inviting beaches and up to the wide valley basin of the Val de Ruz.

Fimber Pass from Ischgl to the Lower Engadine is part of so many transalpine routes. On the Trans-Altarezia route it forms the start of a fantastic mountain bike week.

Questo è uno dei percorsi ciclistici più belli ad ovest di Thun. Conduce attraverso un paesaggio incontaminato, passando davanti ai quattro laghi morenici formatisi sulla morena mediana del ghiacciaio scomparso dell'Aare. Imperdibile è una sosta presso la chiesa di Amsoldingen con il castello.

Useful but unpredictable water from richly forested Tösstal. Culturally and industrially confident Winterthur, a city without airs and graces. Whether with a gentle murmur or a roar, the turbines of the «silver birds» announce the arrival of Zurich.

This medium-loop circuit leaves from St-Cergue and leads through woods and pastures to La Givrine through the Regional Nature Park of the Vaudois Jura. The return trip takes bikers through beautiful little valleys back to the village.

The start in the stony Alpine reduit (fortress), over the treeless pastures of the Urserental, perspiring on the climb to the 2430m Furkapass and an indescribable freewheel past the ice caves of the Rhone Glacier.

Many only know the highway rest area or the famous cheese of the Gruyère region, but the area has much more to offer, especially to mountain bikers and most particularly on the Panorama Bike route between Charmey and Les Paccots.

This tour offers Appenzell hospitality, delicacies and unique views over typical alpine landscapes. You'll be tempted by a carefully selected menu that you can enjoy at a single location - or course by course at different restaurants.

The Panorama Ride takes us around the entire Prättigau valley. It features amazing views of the stunning Rätikon mountain range, takes us through the gentler terrain of the Duranna region, not to mention a number of tasty climbs and runs back down into the valley on single trails. In a word: unique!

Rugged and steep up through the Schinschlucht (gorge) to Tiefencastel, later nice and easy through the Alvaneuer Albulatal, where sulphur springs promise relief. High above, red trains on the curved Landwasser viaduct.