Trail Name: Besen Tour
Trail Type: Medium distance cycling circuit; well-maintained and much of it paved surface, fairly good marking along the trail.
Length: 36.5 kilometers/ 22.5 miles
Convenient to: Karlsruhe, Pforzheim, or Heilbronn, Germany
Marking: A white square metal plaque with a broom and the words “Besen Tour”
Trail Name: Anello del Prosecco (Prosecco Circuit)
Trail Type: A short to medium distance circuit; very diverse surfaces (asphalt, trackless, cart trail, dirt), somewhat maintained; the route itself is marked diversely, and sometimes not at all.
Length:
Total – 15 kilometers/9.33 miles
Segment – 8.5 kilometers/5.25 miles
Convenient to: Valdobbiadene, Italy
Marking: Varies, sometimes following different CAI numbered paths (1019, 1014), and the occasional large iron stands with yellow and white signs waxing poetic on the wines and vines of the area.
Trail Name: Weisses Gold und Traubensaft
Trail Type: A medium-distance, themed bicycle circuit; almost exclusively paved, well maintained, but the route itself is not marked.
Length: Total: 49 kilometers/ 31 miles
Convenient to: Heidelberg, or Karlsruhe, Germany
Marking: None
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Trail Name: Fuisse (FU), Subtitled: Entre Pouilly et Fuisse
Trail Type: Short distance circuit; partly paved, partly hard-packed path, some rocky sections, well maintained, but the route itself is fairly well-marked.
Length: 8 kilometers/5 miles
Convenient to: Macon or Lyon, France
Marking: Posts with yellow signs indicating location, directions and distances; yellow (usually painted bars) on trail route will indicate that you are still on a trail, and your next change of direction (left or right)
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Trail Name: De Loire en Vignes;
Trail Type: A medium distance circuit; varied surfaces, from grassy, or rough, to asphalted road; marking is spotty on the trail.
Length: Total – 12.84 kilometers/ 8 miles
Convenient to: Nevers or Sancerre, France
Marking: A combination of trail specific (yellow grapes on a white background, yellow directional marking, and nothing.)
Trail Name: Kur und Wein (Cure and Wine) – Rundwanderweg LT 17
Trail Type: Long distance circuit trail; variety of paved or hard-packed surfaces, to include stairs; well maintained, and fairly well-marked, once beyond Bismarckstrasse in Bad Mergentheim.
Length: Total: 16.25 kilometers/ 11 miles
Convenient to: Wuerzburg, Germany
Marking: LT 17 (and Panoramaweg in Bad Mergentheim)
Trail Name: Monsteiner Rebweg
Trail Type: A short distance circuit; well-maintained, partly paved, with stairs in places, good marking on the trail.
Length:
Original – 4.8 kilometers/ miles
Extension – 6.4 kilometers/ miles
Convenient to: Bregenz, Austria
Marking: Signs with the words “Monsteiner Rebweg”. See the photo above.
Trail Name: Burgunderpfad
Trail Type: Long distance hiking trail; varied surfaces from grass to hardpacked dirt, to asphalt; well maintained, and mostly well-marked.
Length:
Total: 27.5 kilometers/ 17 miles
Segment (mine): Gottenheim to Munzingen: 17.5
Convenient to: Freiburg, Germany
Marking: Purple grapes with light green terraces in profile, in a white circle, on a red stripe
Trail Name: Hatzenport WeinWetterWeg
Trail Type: Mid-distance circuit; well-maintained, varied trail surfaces from rock, to scree, to grass and tarmac; excellent signage along the trail.
Length:
Total – 12 kilometers/ 7.5 miles
Convenient to: Coblenz, Cochem, Germany
Marking: A white rabbit and grapes, with directional arrow diagrams
Trail Name: Turckheim et Le Brand
Trail Type: Short distance circuit; almost exclusively paved or hard packed surface, well maintained, but the route itself is not specifically marked for this trail.
Length: Total: @5 kilometers/ 3 miles
Convenient to: Colmar, France
Marking:
Turckheim to Niedermorschwihr: Blue X
Niedermorschwihr to Turckheim: Yellow triangle
