Glan-Blies cycle path | Waldmohr - Staudernheim

Requirement: Without long ascents, only some short climbs, and on dedicated paths, therefore suitable as an easy and safe cycle route for everyone.

Route character: Lots of nature, wide landscapes, and far from the hustle and bustle of hectic life.

Routing in Rhineland-Palatinate:

• 63 km of forest, agricultural, and cycle paths
• 7.5 km urban areas without cycle paths
• 1.5 km rural areas without cycle paths

Surface qualities in Rhineland-Palatinate:

• 54.5 km asphalt surfaces
• 17.5 km water-bound, fine surfaces

Use of railway lines:

• Routing on longer sections on tracks of former railway lines from just after the state border to before Glan-Münchweiler, with interruptions between Ulmet and Staudernheim. In Saarland, mostly on the track of the former Bliestal railway Homburg - Reinheim, also several kilometers in France on this railway track.

Route overview:

• France and Saarland: In the valley of the Blies (55 km)
• Waldmoor - Ulmet: In the narrow valley of the young Glan (34 km): In its upper course, the young Glan has little space and is squeezed into the western hilly landscape. The Glan-Blies cycle path first uses the gentle gradient track of a former railway line to Glan-Münchweiler and then alternates over a mix of agricultural roads, streets, and cycle paths past Altenglan to Ulmet.
• Ulmet - Staudernheim: In the wide Glan valley (38 km): In the second half, the Glan valley widens significantly and the cycle path leads through a lovely, gently embedded meadow landscape. From Altenglan via Lauterecken to Staudernheim, it is accompanied by the draisine route, and most of the time the cycle path and draisine share the formerly double-track railway. Towards the end, Meisenheim with its pretty old town core invites a detour from the railway track cycle path. Shortly before the end of the Glan-Blies cycle path at the access to Disibodenberg, in the triangle of the confluence of the Nahe and Glan, the trip must be interrupted for a view over the whole land from the historic monastery ruins.

The route in the cycle path network: The Glan-Blies cycle path connects in the southwest to the Saarland network and continues north into the Nahe cycle path. Between Waldmoor and Altenglan, it is a section of the Rhineland-Palatinate cycle route.

Source and more info: www.radwanderland.de