Trsat Castle
Castle in Trsat, Croatia.
Read about it on Wikipedia Photo: Ante Perkovic, CC BY-SA 3.0The Croatian coast road from Rijeka south past Senj and the Velebit mountains, through Zadar, Šibenik, Trogir and Split, along the Makarska Riviera and over the Pelješac bridge to Ston and Dubrovnik.
At 150 to 300 miles a day, this is 2 or 3 days of riding. Set your own daily distance and add rest days.
Plotted by us, not yet ridden
Click a dot for details. White dots are the stops, each with a bed search. Yellow dots are places to see.
Measured on the route line from OpenStreetMap data, which can be missing or out of date. Curvature is degrees of turning a mile, measured every 100 metres. On our routes they run from 6 on the E19 to 701 on the SP638.
Pick the miles you like to ride in a day. Each day ends at the named place on the route nearest that distance, and you get a GPX file for each day.
This is your pace, not our estimate of how long the riding takes. Day lengths vary because each day ends at a named place.
Most riders cross to Calais by Le Shuttle or a Dover ferry, or take a longer ferry nearer the route.
Compare every crossingSplit the route into days above and each day gets its own bed search for where it ends.
Back to the daysCheck your bike insurance covers riding abroad, get travel insurance that covers motorcycling at your engine size, and breakdown cover that recovers a motorcycle in every country on the route.
What to check before you buy coverWhat GOV.UK says riders need for it, checked 05/11/2026. Rules change, so read the official page before you go.
On every trip abroad: your licence, insurance that covers riding abroad, the V5C and travel insurance with medical cover. The tour planner turns all of this into a checklist each rider in your group can tick off.
Castles, passes, viewpoints and more within easy reach of the line, in the order you reach them. Yellow dots on the map.
Castle in Trsat, Croatia.
Read about it on Wikipedia Photo: Ante Perkovic, CC BY-SA 3.0
Cathedral.
Read about it on Wikipedia Photo: Palauenc05, CC BY-SA 4.0
Monastère bénédictin à Zadar en Croatie.
Read about it on Wikipedia Photo: Maestralno, Public domain
Cathedral in Croatia.
Read about it on Wikipedia Photo: SchiDD, CC BY-SA 4.0
Castle in Croatia.
Read about it on Wikipedia Photo: VitVit, CC BY-SA 4.0
Roman Catholic basilica in Trogir, Croatia.
Read about it on Wikipedia Photo: Helmlechner, CC0
Zoo in Split, Croatia.
Read about it on Wikipedia Photo: Smooth_O (talk · contribs), CC BY-SA 3.0
Church building in Makarska, Croatia.
Read about it on Wikipedia Photo: Makarska-bs-007.jpg: László Szalai (Beyond silence) derivative work: Mario Žamić, Public domain
Cathedral.
Read about it on Wikipedia Photo: Zitumassin, Public domainPlace details from Wikidata. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each card.