Introduction

The Saale Cycle Path runs from the source of the Saale river at Großer Waldstein to the mouth of the Elbe at Barby. It is considered one of the most demanding river cycling routes in Germany. In its upper reaches it is characterized by many climbs. ( Partially quoted fromWikipedia.) This page describes a 431Km version starting in Magdeburg, which has good train connections.

Our plan (see spreadsheet below) was to cycle the distance in 8.5 days (average 51Km/day) without rest days.

In reality, we cycled 440Km in 8.5 days (average 52Km/day).

Much effort went into making the data files listed below. See here for copyright and licensing.

Map

Notes about map:

• green pin: route start
• red pin: route end
• blue pins: campsites - click for (possibly obsolete) URL

Photos

Downloads

Notes about downloads:

• saale-route-combined.gpx has routes divided into chunks of 250 route points for compatibility with older Garmin devices
• saale-waypoints-camps.gpx and saale-route-combined.gpx were both generated from the other two files using scripts in the traveltools repository; they are provided here for convenience