Studentenweg – Kandelhöhenweg
Description
This route is a fusion of two classic Freiburg tours to create a day-long single trail highlight. However, the tour begins unspectacularly with a ride on the road up to the valley station of the Schauinsland cable car. Thanks to this, you are "given" 1000 meters in altitude, which means that the actual start of the tour is at the mountain station. From here, you ride around the Schauinsland summit with its viewing tower on the south side and head straight into the fantastic singletrail descent past the Hundsrücken ridge down to the Studentenweg trail, which you reach after the Rappenecker meadow. This descent is fun and flowy, but also offers the occasional root section or racy serpentine bend. It is considered one of the top descents in the Freiburg region.
In Kirchzarten, the second part of the tour begins with the return trip to Freiburg on the opposite side of the valley. First of all, you'll need your own muscle power for the 350-metre ascent on country roads. A little above the village, you reach the start of the Kandelhöhenweg trail. This is a smooth and fun ride, often almost flat, towards Freiburg. Every now and then there is a stretch of gravel road, sometimes a short ascent, then another descent. In this attractive and varied way, you finally reach the Rosskopf, the starting point of the legendary Borderline Trail. This brings a somewhat rougher finissima to the tour, which has been extremely flowy so far. The Borderline Trail ends at the bottom of the valley. Well-developed and signposted cycle paths now ride directly into the city center of Freiburg.
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Details of the tour
54 km
995 m
1715 m
271 above sea level
1241 above sea level
1 day
Freiburg i.B.
Freiburg i.B.
2309
well suited
More information
several options in Kirchzarten and St. Peter
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User comments (4)
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Very cool trail tour with fun descents
A wonderful trail tour! We started from Kirchzarten, where you start with the asphalt part first and then the rest is great trails. We cranked up the Schauinsland, which makes the tour really crisp.
Thanks for this tour!
The section from Laubisköpfle to Kirchzarten is overgrown in the upper part. Alternatively, you can take the remaining Studentenweg down to Neuhäuser
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