Trail Name: Sentier des Vignes (a Ampuis)
Trail Type: Short distance circuit; varying surfaces, from tarmac/concrete (about half) to earthen, to loose gravel, fairly well maintained, and fairly well marked.
Length: 7.1 kilometers/4.4 miles
Convenient to: Lyon or Vienne, France
Marking: Black lettering “Ampuis 1” on yellow and white (beginning at Route de la Brocarde)
Trail Name: Giro dei Vigneti
Trail Type: Medium distance circuit; well-maintained and almost all hard surface (either paved or hard packed earth); Marking on the trail is rather good.
Length:
Total – 10 kilometers/ 6 miles
Convenient to: Bardolino, Italy
Marking: Stylized black hiker on white background, on brown signs with trail name in white letters
Trail Name: Durch die Reben des Oelberg (Through Oelberg Vineyards)
Trail Type: A short distance circuit; well-maintained, but with varying surfaces, from grass to tarmac, marking on the trail is generic, but good throughout.
Length:
Total – 6.8 kilometers/ 4.25 miles
Convenient to: Waldshut-Tiengen, Germany; Schaffhausen, Switzerland
Marking:
Yellow diamond (See featured photo, and comment section below.)
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Trail Name: Weinwanderweg Mannaberg
Trail Type: Long distance; well-maintained and almost exclusively paved or hard surface throughout, marking on the trail good in places, and missing altogether in others
Length:
Total – 21 kilometers/ 13 miles
Convenient to: Heidelberg, or Wiesloch, Germany
Marking: Blue grapes in a white circle on an orange background
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Trail Name: Sentier de la Fontaine
Trail Type: Short distance circuit; Somewhat roughly maintained; Marking on the trail is limited.
Length: 3.5 kilometers/2 miles
Convenient to: None, but the closest big city is Perpignan
Marking: Wooden signpost with a pointing finger, with the trail name inscribed, at the beginning and end of the trail, (see the featured photo) and educational signboards, see below, along the way.
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Trail Name: Gorizia a Cormons (AKA: Slow Collio, Un Paesaggio da Bere)
Trail Type: Short distance cycling circuit (with a short tail from Gorizia); about half on lightly travelled paved roads through and between towns, and half on improved earthen trails through countryside, mostly in a protected nature zone; well maintained, but the route itself is well-marked in places, but not in others.
Length: 23 kilometers/ 14.3 miles
Convenient to: Udine, Gorizia, Italy
Marking: FVG3 and Slow Collio.
Trail Name: Hiwweltour Bismarckturm
Trail Type: Mid-distance circuit; trail surface variable – from earthen to paved, includes stairs, well maintained overall; the route itself is fairly well-marked.
Length: 10.3 kilometers/6.4 miles
Convenient to: Mainz, Germany
Marking: A cursive lower-case “h” on a half-blue/half-green rectangular-shaped background
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Trail Name: Traumrunde Dettelbach
Trail Type: Mid-distance hiking circuit; well-maintained and almost exclusively paved, good marking on the trail.
Length: 10.5 kilometers/ 6.5 miles
Convenient to: Wuerzburg, or Kitzingen, Germany
Marking: Red semi-circle on a white background
Trail Name: Chemin du Vignoble
Trail Type: Long distance, two-stage bike trail from Martigny to Leuk (aka Loeche), in the Valais Canton in Switzerland; well-maintained and almost exclusively paved, but marking on the trail can be problematic in places.
Length:
Total – 83 kilometers/ 51.5miles
Stage One – 36 kilometers/22.4 miles
Stage Two – 47 kilometers/29 miles
Convenient to: Martigny, Montreux, or Sion, Switzerland
Marking: Red stylized grapes with 72 in white, on a blue square, on a red arrow.
Trail Name : Circuit de Stromberg (AKA: Boucle de Stromberg)
Trail Type: Short distance circuit; mostly hard surfaces, to include about 100 steps, somewhat maintained, but the route itself is only intermittently marked.
Length: 7.7 kilometers/4.75 miles
Convenient to: Thionville, France; Remich or Schengen, Luxembourg; Perl, Germany
Marking: Yellow rectangle/Red and white rectangles thru town/Red dot; as well as location and directional signposts
