Trail Name: Sentier Viticole des Grands Crus (also known as the Perles du Vignoble)
Trail type: Mid-distance hiking circuit; mostly paved, some hard-packed gravel; very well-maintained and well-marked.
Length: Total – 17 km/10.5 miles
Convenient to: Colmar, Alsace, France
Marking: Mostly gold letters on brown wooden background
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Trail Names:
Circuit Cremant
Auto-Pedestre 1
Trail Types: 2 short distance circuits;
Cremant: Short hiking circuit; paved, well maintained and marked.
Auto-Pedestre 1: Short hiking circuit, some parts paved, some hard-packed, some soft dirt; some sections marked, but markings missing in a couple of crucial spots.
Lengths:
Cremant: 4.6 km/2.8 miles
Auto-Pedestre 1: 8 km/5 miles
Convenient to:
Luxembourg, Luxembourg, with local public transportation
Trier, Germany, with a car
Markings:
Cremant: Flute on a white pentagon, on red background with green edge
Auto-Pedestre 1: Black “1” on a blue triangle on white rectangular sign
(Note: The photo’s blue hexagon with a yellow rectangle is the sign for the Sentier de la Moselle, described below.)
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Trail Name: Circuit de Saint-Marc
Trail Type: Mid-distance hiking circuit; partly paved, part dirt; no specific marking for this trail.
Length: total: 11 km/6.8 miles
Convenient to: Epernay, France
Trail Name: Blauburgunder Panoramaweg
Trail Type: Long distance hiking trail; either paved or hard-packed gravel, well maintained.
Length: total: 12 km/7.5 miles
Convenient to: Schaffhausen, Switzerland
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Trail Name: Chemin des Grands Crus
Trail Type: Long distance hiking trail, wine-themed; with a widely varying trail surface from paved road to grass track, somewhat maintained, and signposted or marked at many intersections, but not all.
Length:
Convenient to: Dijon, Burgundy, France
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Trail Name: Rheinradweg (German)/Rhine Cycle Route, also known as Eurovelo 15
Trail Type: Long distance cycling trail; This segment is completely paved, well maintained, and much of it follows a dedicated trail for bicycles. The specific route marking is not always easy to see, but bike signs to the next town/destination are abundant. (Otherwise, just go with (or against) the flow, literally.)
Length:
Total: over 1200 km/circa 760 miles
Segment: circa 45 km/ 30 miles
Convenient to: Bingen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
Marking:
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Trail Name: German Wine Route Hiking Trail/Wanderweg Deutsche Weinstrasse
Trail Type: Long distance hiking trail; pavement or hard-packed trail surface throughout, well maintained, and fairly well-marked.
Length:
Total: 96 km/60 miles of the complete trail
First segment of the Mittelhaardt district: 18.5 km/11.5 miles
Second segment of the Mittelhaardt district: 24 km/15 miles
Convenient to: Ludwigshafen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
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Trail Name: Terrasses de Lavaux
Trail Type: medium distance hiking trail; almost exclusively paved, well maintained, and mostly marked, but not consistently.
Length: total: 11 km/6.85 miles
Convenient to: Lausanne, (Lake Geneva), Switzerland
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Trail Name: Trail of Lagrein and Sauvignon/Weinroute Nord (Northern Wine Route) of the Suedtirol Weinstrasse.
Trail Type: Mid-distance cycling circuit; almost exclusively paved, well maintained, but the route itself is not marked.
Length: Total: 45 km/28 miles
Convenient to: Bozen/Bolzano, Suedtirol/Alto Adige, Italy
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Trail Name: Grafschafter Weindoerferweg
Trail Type: Mid-distance hiking circuit; grassy pathway, steps, hard-packed gravel or paved in built up areas, well maintained and superbly marked.
Length: total: 18.5 kilometers/11.5 miles
Convenient to: Bernkastel-Kues, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
