56,24 km cycling route from Mulhouse to Montbéliard
Elevation of the stage
Waytypes of the stage
Surface of the stage
The Route
Leave Mulhouse in the direction of Brunstatt and Montbéliard, the cycle route following an unbroken greenway (the cycle path exiting town completely separate from motorized traffic) along the Canal du Rhône au Rhin. You can ride easily into the centre of Montbéliard thanks to a footbridge running alongside the bridge over the railway tracks.
Links
At the level of Bourogne, there’s an 18km-long link to reach the town of Belfort via the Francovélosuisse cycle route.
At the lock, the Écluse de Brognard, there’s a cycle path along the Canal de la Haute-Saône up to Danjoutin, south of Belfort. There’s a signposted trail to reach Belfort centre via Promenade F. Mitterrand. There are many train connections between Belfort and Montbéliard (15mins journey).
Connexions
À l’EuroVelo 5 - Moselle / Alsace à hauteur de Mulhouse
À la Grande Traversée du Jura à vélo à hauteur de Montbéliard,
Practical information
Tourist offices
- Mulhouse Tourisme: 03 89 35 48 48
- Pays de Montbéliard: 03 81 94 45 60
SNCF train stations
- Train stations at Mulhouse, Montreux-Château et Montbéliard.
Don't miss
- Mulhouse: the Musée de l'Impression sur Étoffe (Museum of Printed Fabrics), on the Canal du Rhin au Rhône trail; the Musée de l'Automobile (on cars); the Quartier des Grands Musées (reached by following the canalized River Ill), its collection of museums earning Mulhouse its title of European Capital of Technical Museums.
- Zillisheim: a deeply historic village
- Illfurth: the lively historic town; St Martin’s Church
- Dannemarie: a lively small traditional town with a river port
- Montreux-Château: a river stop.
- Brebotte: Musée de l’Artisanat et des Traditions (on local crafts and traditions)
- Froidefontaine: an historic village with a Romanesque church
- Bourogne: an interesting village, with multimedia centre
- Fesches-le-Châtel: Cristel Fabricant d’ustensiles culinaires
- Brognard: a pretty lock as well as a navigational aqueduct at the junction of canals
- Sochaux: Museum L’Aventure Peugeot
- Montbéliard: the historic town centre; the Château des Ducs de Wurtemberg; the museum; the Parc du Près-la-Rose public gardens
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