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High Tatras loop

Round the Tatra mountains through Slovakia and Poland: from Poprad along the foot of the High Tatras to Zdiar, over the border to Zakopane, back through Orava to the Western Tatras at Zuberec, and home past the lake at Strbske Pleso.

Distance
138 miles (223 km)
Type
Loop
Where
Tatra mountains

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.

From the map

Longest gap between fuel
27 miles
Fuel stations near the line
30
Curvature
136 ° a mile
Campsites within 2 km
23
  • The longest stretch with no fuel station within 1 km of the line runs from mile 106 to mile 133. Check it against your range with the fuel range calculator.
  • The twistiest 20 miles run from mile 70 to mile 90, at 223 degrees of turning a mile.
  • Passes: Huty (1,065 m, mile 79).
  • 4 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Measured on the route line from OpenStreetMap data, which can be missing or out of date.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

  • The loop crosses between Slovakia and Poland twice. Carry your passport.
  • Slovak motorways need an e-vignette. This line keeps off them, but check if your own route uses one.

On the way

  1. Poprad
  2. Stary Smokovec
  3. Tatranska Lomnica
  4. Zdiar
  5. Zakopane
  6. Chocholow
  7. Zuberec
  8. Liptovsky Mikulas
  9. Strbske Pleso
  10. Poprad
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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.

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2Places to stay

Search beds in Poprad

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.

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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.

Slovakia

Money
Euro
Ride on the
Right

GOV.UK lists no extra road rules for this country beyond the ones for every trip abroad. Read its advice 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.

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.

Brestovská jaskyňa (national natural monument)
Cave · 1 km off the route

Brestovská jaskyňa (national natural monument)

Cave in Slovakia.

Photo: Huhulenik, CC BY 3.0
Saint Peter of Alcantara Church
Monastery · 0.3 km off the route

Saint Peter of Alcantara Church

Roman catholic church building in Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovakia.

Photo: Thaler Tamas, CC BY-SA 3.0

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

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