Winterberg bike park

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Upper part of the bike park
Practice course , in the background the summit region of the cap
Slopestyle , in the background the Panorama-Erlebnis-Brücke

The Bikepark Winterberg is a bike park in the Upper Sauerland part of the Rothaargebirge . It is located on the 776  m high cap on the west-south-west to south-west edge of the core town of Winterberg in the North Rhine-Westphalian Hochsauerlandkreis .

General

The Bikepark Winterberg is operated by the leisure company Erlebnisberg cap . According to the Federal Ministry of Transport, the sports facility is the largest of its kind in northern and central Germany. The catchment area covers a radius of 100 to 200 km. According to a study, only a few visitors came from the surrounding area. A large part comes from the urban centers on the Rhine and Ruhr. It is therefore a leisure offer with a decidedly supraregional character. In the 2006 season (May to October) 30,000 visitors visited the facility.

stretch

The total of eleven routes are over 12 km long. There are practice courses, forest stretches and relatively short, but extremely curvy racetracks in which up to four people can compete. The routes are called Beginner & Kids Parcours, Continental Track, RockShox Slopestyle, Woodpecker, Four Cross, Pinball, North Shore, Freeride, iXS Downhill, Black Line and SRAM Flow Country.

Lift for bicycles and riders in the lower part of the bike park with
panorama adventure bridge (rear)

Two lifts are available to transport the bicycles and the riders back up the mountain: a four- person chairlift in the area of ​​the easy and medium-difficulty routes on the northwest slope of the Cap and a six- person chairlift for the longer and medium-difficult to difficult routes on the eastern slope, both lifts used by skiers in winter as part of the Winterberg ski lift carousel .

Dirt Masters

The Dirt Masters in Bikepark Winterberg is the largest freeride festival in Europe. The cycling event has competitions in slopestyle , downhill , 4 cross and enduro . In 2010, 30,000 visitors came to the festival over three days; the rest of the season came to 21,000 cyclists. In 2011 the festival took place from June 2nd to 5th.

The Dirt Masters 2019 took place from May 30th. until June 2nd instead of. Around 40,000 visitors saw 11 races in different disciplines. On the sidelines of the event, there was a fatal accident at the so-called roadgap, a three and a half meter high wooden jump.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Completion of the Bikepark Winterberg on July 9th, 2005 (bicycle portal) , on national-radverkehrsplan.de
  2. ↑ Thomas Danz: Bike parks as a tourism concept in low mountain regions. In: Tobias Reeh, Gerhard Stöhlein (Eds.): Experience nature, stage space. Göttingen 2008, pp. 45-49
  3. ↑ Bikepark Winterberg routes , accessed on April 17, 2018
  4. ↑ Dirt Masters 2010 - in the most beautiful sunshine in Winterberg ( Memento from June 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), on archive.org, from May 26, 2010, from sport2.de
  5. ↑ 21,000 mountain bikers on the Winterberger cap. Winterberg extends its lead as the leading German bike park ( Memento from January 23, 2016 in the web archive archive.today ) (2010), from bikepark-winterberg.de
  6. ↑ Fatal accident overshadows the Dirt Masters in Winterberg Westfalenpost, accessed on June 3, 2019

Web links

Commons : Bikepark Winterberg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 5 ″  N , 8 ° 30 ′ 18 ″  E