Samedan sticks to bans - but opens old single trail | Ride MTB

Samedan sticks to bans - but opens old single trail

The extensive plans to ban mountain bikers in Samedan have caused a stir and led to a working group being convened at short notice. The result: the municipality of Samedan is sticking to the bans, but is explicitly opening up an old hiking trail. The route has long been known among local bikers and is considered much more attractive than the now banned routes. We show where the new route goes through.

The new, old route begins just below Alp Muntatsch and then rides through the sparse forest towards Bever. The trail has a perfect gradient and is actually a world-class trail in its own right - but so far hardly any mountain bikers have taken notice of it because it is not signposted as a hiking or biking trail. This will not change in the future, as the municipality of Samedan has no plans to signpost this route. This means that not much will change for mountain bikers who are unfamiliar with the area: from Alp Munt onwards, they will primarily have to struggle with prohibition signs without knowing where the really fun and legal route leads. It remains to be seen whether the municipality of Samedan will be as flexible here as it is in putting up prohibition signs - the prohibition sign on Alp Munt is still illegally in place because the prohibition is not even recorded as such in the structure plan. Conflicts are therefore inevitable despite the well-intentioned alternative proposal - if mountain bikers are not directed to this single trail

The map below shows the trail that bikers are now officially allowed to ride from Alp Munt down towards Samedan. We have also put together a fun singletrail tour via the Trais Fluors and the high trail to Alp Munt. The final bouquet in this case is the aforementioned singletrail. Link to the tour: click here


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