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O10 Large Upper Harz Circular Route
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- 48.54 km long
- Round trip
- Difficulty: difficult
- Condition: very difficult
- Great panorama
- Mountain bike

Great trails in Spiegeltal

View from the Schalke to the Brocken

At the edge of the Okertalsperre

The Upper Harz Water Management System

- 5:00 h
- 48.54 km
- 1,044 m
- 1,065 m
- 411 m
- 757 m
- 346 m
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- Start: Tourist Information, Bergstraße 31, 38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld (Zellerfeld). Start of the route also possible: 38707 Schulenberg, church parking lot, Unter den Birken and from Altenau.

The route leads through the Upper Harz landscape, passing many ponds and ditches.

Challenging mountain-valley route with frequent changes between gravel and asphalt. Hardly any steep ascents, but some single-trail sections with partly high demands. Beautiful view from the Schalke observation tower. For the Oker reservoir (drinking water supply and flood protection), the village of Schulenberg was relocated from the valley to the Wiesenberg meadow.

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Harz: Magische Gebirgswelt

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Pavements

Asphalt (14%)

Street (6%)

Gravel (53%)

Path (7%)

Trail (19%)

Unknown (1%)

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Additional information

The Volksbank Arena Harz is also available on YouTube.

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Map

**The Harz for Mountain Bikers**

Through the extremely varied North German low mountain range landscape, there are 74 signposted mountain bike circular routes (total length 2,300 km), classified into three levels of difficulty. Official map set "The Harz for Mountain Bikers." Completely revised and expanded new edition. The new map set consists of a route book with detachable individual descriptions and detailed maps of the routes. In addition, there is a topographic overview map (1:50,000) on weatherproof and durable POLYART material.

ISBN 978-3-935806-28-2

Price €16.80

Publisher map solutions, Karlsruhe 2017

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Contact

Clausthal-Zellerfeld

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