M³ Montafon Mountainbike Marathon ​-​ E​-​Mountainbike Hydropower Route 2025

Moderate
Einkehrmöglichkeit
Rundtour
(E-)Mountainbiken · Refreshment stops · Round trip
08:00 h duration
55,8 km Länge
1834 m Höchster Punkt
674 m Tiefster Punkt
1225 hm Aufstieg
1218 hm Abstieg
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Landschaft

Tourbeschreibung

The e-mountainbike hydropower route takes you on the trail of hydropower in the Montafon, offering you exclusive insights. What is a pumped storage power plant, how does it work, and how is the water captured and supplied to the power plants? You will learn all this and more on this route.

Approach

Take the A14 to the Bludenz/Montafon exit and continue on the Montafonerstraße L188 to Schruns town center.

Public transport

Just leave your car behind.

The regional buses operate throughout the Montafon. The main lines run every half hour from Schruns station.

Bus stop at the start/finish of the route: Schruns station

Timetable: www.vmobil.at

Getting to Montafon by train

The Montafon railway runs hourly (partly every half hour) from Bludenz station. There are also direct connections from Lindau (D) and from Bregenz.

Timetable: www.oebb.at

Parking

Underground parking Löwen Hotel, station parking garage

Directions

The guided tour starts in front of the Schruns tourism information and leads you down the valley past the Aktivpark Montafon along the bike path to Partenen. Along the way, the gigantic Kops dam, the highest point of our tour. Afterwards, it goes back through the Ganifer to Partenen, where the impressive Kops II cavern power plant is on the program. Once you have mastered this, you continue down the valley back to our starting point in Schruns.

Equipment

You should definitely carry weatherproof clothing with you. Weather changes are not uncommon in the high alpine terrain and can quickly become dangerous.

Tips

Note: This tour will take place in this exclusive form only once this year on July 26, 2025, as part of the M³ Montafon Mountainbike Marathon.

Destination

Schruns, center

Starting Point

Schruns, center

Sicherheitstipps für Mountainbike in Vorarlberg

NOTRUF:

140 Alpine Notfälle österreichweit 

144 Alpine Notfälle Vorarlberg 

112 Euro-Notruf (funktioniert mit jedem Handy/Netz) 

Eigenschaften
Routentyp (E-)Mountainbiken, Refreshment stops, Round trip
Schwierigkeit Moderate
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