En Route Along Winding Trails – Bike Tours in South Tyrol

Scena – Verdines – Taser – Greitererhof – Egger – Gsteier – San Giorgio – Scena

From Verdines the road leads to the Schennaberg farm holdings on to Taser. Veer to the right shortly before this, and cycle to Greitererhof farm and then continue along the hiking trail to Egger. The Merano region is now at your feet. The High Mountain Trail continues further to the so-called Rabenschnabel, where there are a couple of stone steps to negotiate then on through the forest to a clearing with Gsteirerhof farm. We then take the access road up the mountain through the forest and past a couple of farm holdings before reaching St. Georgener Straße street and Scena.

This tour takes us from Scena in the direction of Avelengo, and on to the sunny Tschöggelberg plateau. At a height of 1,140 meters, it continues further through shaded forest regions and passes idyllic villages and then on to Meltina. From there we travel along plenty of curved sections on to Terlano, from where the biking path takes us in leisurely fashion in the direction of Merano. Finally it continues further along the hills of Scena. The 60 km long tour demands good levels of fitness, but it is a rewarding bike tour around the Merano region.

On winding roads through the picturesque Passeiertal Valley on the Timmelsljoch, this tour takes you past a multitude of points of interest that you will be enticed to stop at and explore. The Timmelsjoch is a mountain pass that separates Austria from Italy, and takes you into the high mountain world of the Alps. Along the way we are able to marvel at rich Alpine meadows and Alpine roses in bloom. Past pear trees and barren high mountain landscape, we arrive at the highest point of the pass. Due to snowfall, this tour is only suitable for the summer months. A tour for seasoned cyclists!

Scena – Riffianerweg path – Saltusio – S. Leonardo – return

The Riffianerweg tarmac road, which forks at Dorfplatz square, brings us with a moderate downward slope down to the Waalerhaus in “Labboden“. Starting at a lane and then along the rushing Passer river, it leads up the valley to Saltusio, where the valley station of the Hirzer funicular is located. The beautiful Dammweg trail then takes us past the Passeirer golf course to S. Martino and then below Sandwirt inn to S. Leonardo, the main town in the Passeiertal Valley. We follow the same route back.

Scena – Verdines – Hofer – Streitweideralm pasture – Videgg – Prenn – Talle di sotto – Scena

We cycle on the road that leads to Schennaberg mountain, up past Gasthof Hasenegg inn to Hoferhof farm. Right behind this at the bend we take the forest track, which with a moderate incline brings us to Streitweideralm pasture. A little lower down we keep to the left, crossing Röthbachstream and after a short incline reaching the small mountain hamlet of Videgg. The access road then leads on to Oberkirn and passes the cable car mountain station up to Prenn, the “main place” in Talle di sopra. We stay on the road for another 500 m in the direction of Saltusio; then turn left off route 20, which leads us to Talle di sotto and takes us past several farms to reach Verdines.

Scena – Goyen Castle – Labers Castle – Fragsburg – Greiterhof – retour

From the entrance of the town at Scena we leave Goyenweg trail, which takes us through orchards to Goyen Castle. Before it descends further, we cross a small forest, the so-called Himmelreich. After a short descent and passing Gasthof Kiendl inn, we cross over the road to Avelengo and arrive at a wooden bridge below Einsiedler inn, then following the forest path we reach Labers Castle. There we leave ”Idaweg“ path, which takes us to Laberser Straße street, which allows us to reach Fragsburg, in partly extremely easily and partly more strenuous. To reach our destination it is then uphill to Unterweiher and Oberweiher and until we finally reach Greiterhof at almost 1000 m.

Scena – Verdines – Vallplatz square – Holznerhof farm – Zmailerhof pasture – Scena

Along the road we reach Verdines, passing the cable car valley station, and on to Gasthof Hasenegg inn and further on small roads in the direction of Schennaberg mountain. After about 1 km, we turn to the right to Vallplatzhof farm and then have a level route until Holznerhof farm. At the edge of the meadow the access road then continues to Bergerweg path, before descending shortly and turning left onto the arm road, which brings us to Zmailerhof. From here there are amazing panoramic views of the entire Merano basin. We then travel back to Bergerweg, descending at Gasthof Jägerrast inn, where we then cross a hillside above Pension Fungganell inn and then to Rastlhof farm. The road now descends to S. Giorgio and on to Scena.