Pustertal Valley Cycle Path
A gentle valley glide from Innichen to Bruneck, shadowed by Dolomite spires and punctuated by smokehouses.
- Distance
- 44.5 km
- Elevation gain
- 320 m
- Est. duration
- 3–4 h
- Difficulty
- Easy
Innichen / San Candido → Bruneck / Brunico
Elevation profile
Stops along the route (3)
Speckstube Niederrasen
Bauernspeck cut by hand, with rye Schüttelbrot
- Cyclist-friendly4
- Secure bike parking3
- Quick service2
- +2
Hofschank Berger
Spinatknödel in brown butter with grated Graukäse
- Cyclist-friendly4
- Secure bike parking3
- Quick service2
- +2
Pension Radlerhof
Family pension 300 m off the Pustertal cycle path with a locked bike garage and 6 a.m. breakfast.
- Locked bike storage5
- E-bike charging2
- Early breakfast2
- +3
About this route
The Pustertal is a corridor of light. You start in Innichen where the Sesto Dolomites still hold the morning cold, and for forty-odd kilometres the path simply lets you go — a lazy descent beside the Rienz, past hay meadows that smell of clover by ten in the morning. This is not a ride you attack. It is a ride you graze. Every village along the way keeps a smokehouse, and the scent of juniper and beech smoke drifts over the path long before you see the building. By Bruneck you will have eaten twice, drunk a Vernatsch you did not plan on, and understood why South Tyroleans measure distance in Marende breaks rather than kilometres.