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Cycling Routes in Randers

Jump on your bike and go! The town of Randers and its surrounding area is simply calling you to come and ride your bike through spectacular scenery and exceptional outdoor experiences. 

Cykeltur langs Gudenåen ved Randers
Photo: Jacob Lerche

Ride along Gudenåen and Randers Fjord inlet, across streams and through inlet landscape that characterises this fascinating area.

Not all routes have signs posted along the way, but at this website, you will find detailed maps and useful tips for wonderful experiences along the way.

Fussing Sø
Photo: Randers Kommune

Cycling route: From the Gudenå to a bathing lake

This 44.3 km long bike ride goes along the Gudenå along the cycle path between Randers and Langå. The trip also goes to Fussingø Castle, where you can take a swim from the bathing bridge in Fussing Lake. The Gudenå is 158 km and is the longest river in Denmark.
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Cycling route: Around the Randers Fjord
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Cycling route: Around the Randers Fjord

This tour leads all the way around Randers Fjord. It is possible to shorten the trip by crossing the fjord with the ferry at Mellerup-Voer. Length of the route: 85 km / 48.4 km.
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Biking in Randers
Photo: Randers Kommune

Cycling route: Children's route around Randers

Take the whole family on a cosy and adventurous bike ride! This 18.1 km route is tailor-made for children and takes you in a big, gentle arc around Randers - far from traffic and close to nature. Along the way you can enjoy green areas, look for animals and take breaks in the open air.
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View from Lysnet
Photo: Randers Kommune

Cycling route: The mountain and hill route

Are you ready to feel your heart rate rise and your legs work? Then take a bike ride in the hilly landscape south of Randers, where beautiful views and serious climbs go hand in hand. This route gives you a real taste of the elevation changes that make cycling in East Jutland both challenging and incredibly rewarding.
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Cycling route: Around Randers
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Cycling route: Around Randers

The city of Randers was founded on the spot where the crossing of the Gudenå from north to south through Jutland was easiest - or vice versa. The name Randers also means "the city on the hill at the mouth", and here in the Viking Age a trading town arose.
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Biking in Randers
Photo: Randers Kommune

Cycling route: Around the remains of the Gudenådelta

Just before the expiration in Randers Fjord, the Gudenå formed a delta for millennia. This tour leads all the way around the old delta and along the way there is the opportunity to study the bird and wildlife from two bird towers.
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Hvidsten Gruppen memorial
Photo: VisitRanders

Cycling route: Hvidsten Resistance Group

Hvidsten Resistance Group (Hvidsten Gruppen) was a receiving group associated with the Danish resistance movement during the German occupation of Denmark 1940-45. The tour leads to some of the sites that are associated with the group's efforts during WW2.
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Asferg Church
Photo: VisitRanders

Cycling route: Rune stones and other ancient monuments

In the municipality of Randers there are about 350 visible and preserved ancient monuments: burial mounds, stone jets from the Stone Age and rune stones from the Vikings.
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Cycling route: The Hamlet Route
Photo: Jakob Lerche

Cycling route: The Hamlet Route

It is the chronicle writer Saxo Grammaticus, who about the year 1200 tells the story of the Jutland chief son, Amled. Amled must have lived around the year 500, and when he himself died, he must have been buried at Ammelhede by Randers, the target of this trip.
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Læsten Bakker near Randers
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Cycling route: Fussingø and Læsten Bakker

The tour first goes along the Gudenå through the Vorup Enge nature area and past Fussingø Castle and Fussing Lake, before reaching the protected nature area Læsten Bakker, where animal and plant life is incredibly rich.
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Pøt Mølle Frijsenborgskove og Granslev Ådal
Photo: S. Juhl

Experience the Bike Route, Kulturringen, Across the Favrskov Region

The Kulturringen bike route crosses through the beautiful Favrskov area, and you can choose to go the entire distance, or take your pick among three lovely and shorter bike trips – from Pøt Mølle to Gudenåen (18.7 km), from Gudenåen to Laurbjerg (24.4 km), and from Laurbjerg to Clausholm (24.4 km).
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Randers Regnskov and Gudenåen
Photo: VisitRanders

Cycling route along the old railway

Enjoy at cycling tour along the old railway and one of Jutland's first railways - the section between Randers and Hadsund. Today it is a bike and hiking trail from Randers to Spentrup and via Bjergby and Borup.
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Cycling route
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Railway path on cycle route 29 from Randers to Silkeborg

Experience beautiful nature and relics from World War ll on the route between Randers and Silkeborg.
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Bike
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Cycling Route: Randers - Mariager

Experience nature and historic places on your trip along the routes 18 and 26 between Randers and Mariager. On route 18 you'll pass Bjerregrav Mose (Bjerregrav Bog), Fårup and Glenstrup Lake. Route 26 is particularly good if you interested in Danish history - the route passes famous author Steen Steensen Blicher's home and grave, Allestrupgård Plantation which was used by the British during the Second World War as a dropzone.
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Rail bike trip with Djursland for Fuld Damp
Photo: Djursland for Fuld Damp

Rail bike trip with Djursland for Fuld Damp

Rent a dresine, a rail push trolley, from Djursland for Fuld Damp and have a ride on the old railway track between Allingåbro and Randers for a total length of 16 km. Each railbike can accommodate up to 4 people.
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