Germany: Mecklenburg Lake District - Epic road bike routes in the Mecklenburg Lake District

Our starting point Waren (Müritz) is located around 180 kilometres east of Hamburg and is one of the tourist centres of the Mecklenburg Lake District region. Geographers need quite a long time to define the region. In their definition, it stretches from Schleswig-Holstein all the way down to Brandenburg. Right in the middle, and sufficiently precise in this context, is the district of "Mecklenburg Lake District", founded in 2011, with the Müritz as Germany's largest inland lake (the larger Lake Constance also has neighbours such as Switzerland and Austria). The Müritz and hundreds of other lakes in the area are the result of glacial erosion between 15,000 and 18,000 years ago.

Although our tours are only between 10 and 140 metres above sea level, the undulating terrain adds up to plenty of metres in altitude. However, the gradient percentages remain in single figures. The road surface is a tougher test in places, especially the coarse pebble paving on some of the local roads. A number of side roads are hardly suitable for slipstreaming in groups due to the condition of the road and the attention required. Wide tyres are recommended. The route taken by our local guide avoids almost all busy roads and leads through remote hamlets.

These tours and the GPS data can be downloaded below:

- Tour 1: Castle and shortcuts (109 kilometres, 600 metres in altitude, max. 7% gradient)
- Tour 2: Through Mecklenburg Switzerland (130 kilometres, 1,000 metres in altitude, max. 10 % gradient)
- Tour 3: Around the Müritz (96 kilometres, 500 metres in altitude, max. 5 % gradient)
- Tour 4: Ladies' tour (88 kilometres, 650 metres in altitude, max. 8 % gradient)

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