Baltic Bike Path

Baltic Bike Path

The bicycle path along the Baltic Sea shore takes you nearly 300 miles from Travemünde west to the Danish border. From Travemünde you head towards Niendorf, a dreamy fishing and farming village.

Then you continue on to the Timmendorf beach. Once there, you can either saunter on the magnificent beach promenade and take a break at one of the cafés, or you can visit the Sea Life Centre.

You continue your ride along the Baltic Sea shore past Neustadt, Grömitz, Kellenhusen and Dahme, stopping and resting anywhere, any time you like. Or you can interrupt your ride to visit the Hansapark in Sierksdorf, where you'll find fun and action for the entire family.

Continue on to the sunny island of Fehmarn, boasting the highest number of sunshine hours per year in all of Germany. This is the ideal place for you to relax for a few hours and soak in the sun. You can, of course, go ahead and spend a day at Weißenhäuser Strand, or even in the villages of California and Brazil. Weißenhäuser Strand in particular offers dune scenery unique in the Baltic Sea. From Fehmarn, cycle along the shore, past the Bay of Hohwacht, Schönberg and Laboe, until you reach the state capital, Kiel, where you can view the superb ships moored at the harbour. From Kiel, cycle on towards Eckernförde with its fishing port and old town, both well worth seeing. It is not far from Eckernförde to the swing-bridge at the Schlei, which takes you to Kappeln with its narrow alleyways and harbor museum.

Now you are approaching the end of your bicycle tour. Riding past Gelting and Langballig, you eventually enter Flensburg. The moated castle in Glücksburg is definitely worth seeing. To the east, you can cross the River Trave on the Priwall ferry and continue the Baltic Coast Cycle Route on the other side to the border of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

Starting at Lübeck Bay, cycle along beaches, past seaside resorts and through the Hanseatic towns of Wismar, Rostock, Stralsund and Greifswald. Along the whole route, you are never more than four kilometers from the coast.