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Black Forest B500

The Schwarzwaldhochstrasse from Baden-Baden along the ridge past the Mummelsee, south through Triberg and Furtwangen to the Feldberg and Freiburg.

Distance
127 miles (205 km)
Type
Point to point
Where
Black Forest

Plotted by us, not yet ridden

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Click a dot for details. White dots are the stops, each with a bed search. Yellow dots are places to see.

Main roads

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From the map

Longest gap between fuel
27 miles
Fuel stations near the line
27
Curvature
218 ° a mile
Campsites within 2 km
48
  • The longest stretch with no fuel station within 1 km of the line runs from mile 3 to mile 30. Check it against your range with the fuel range calculator.
  • The twistiest 20 miles run from mile 56 to mile 76, at 295 degrees of turning a mile.
  • Passes: Passhöhe Escheck (1,054 m, mile 68), Thurnerpass (1,035 m, mile 82), Feldbergpass (1,231 m, mile 100), Notschrei (1,120 m, mile 111).
  • Countries: Germany.
  • 6 motorcycle shops are within 3 km of the line.

Measured on the route line from OpenStreetMap data, which can be missing or out of date.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.

Before you go

  • Some roads in the Black Forest have weekend motorcycle restrictions and frequent speed checks. Look for the signs.

On the way

  1. Baden-Baden
  2. Mummelsee
  3. Ruhestein
  4. Alexanderschanze
  5. Triberg
  6. Furtwangen
  7. Titisee
  8. Feldberg
  9. Todtnau
  10. Freiburg
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1Getting there

Most riders cross to Calais by Le Shuttle or a Dover ferry, or take a longer ferry nearer the route.

Compare every crossing

2Places to stay

Search beds in Baden-Baden

3Cover

Check 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 cover

The country on this route

What GOV.UK says riders need for it, checked 05/11/2026. Rules change, so read the official page before you go.

Germany

Money
Euro
Ride on the
Right
  • Some city centres are low emission zones (Umweltzone): check whether your bike needs a sticker to enter
  • Riding a bike that is not yours? You may need written permission from the registered owner

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.

Places to see on the way

Castles, passes, viewpoints and more within easy reach of the line, in the order you reach them. Yellow dots on the map.

Kloster Kniebis
Monastery · 0.8 km off the route

Kloster Kniebis

Monastery.

Photo: Till Spiegel, CC0

Place details from Wikidata. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each card.

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