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W7 Ilsenburg Cliff Route
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- 24.98 km long
- Round trip
- Difficulty: medium
- Condition: medium
- Great panorama
- Mountain bike

The bizarre landscape in the area of the many cliffs east of Brocken

- 3:00 h
- 24.98 km
- 728 m
- 726 m
- 309 m
- 889 m
- 580 m
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- Start: At the end of the street "Im Ilsetal", 38871 Ilsenburg

The route leads from the northern edge of the Harz up to the eastern areas of the High Harz.

The mountain route goes through the picturesque Ilsetal and the large Sandtal up to the crucifix and then steeply uphill to Scharfenstein. From there you get a very good view of the Eckertal dam. However, the highlight of the route is only reached at the Zeterklippen; until then, the ascent is steep. At the Zeterklippen, there are demanding trails. From there it goes downhill and past some cliffs and rocks back to Ilsenburg.

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Harz: Magische Gebirgswelt

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Pavements

Trail (17%)

Asphalt (3%)

Gravel (80%)

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Directions & Parking facilities

**Public transportation**From the central station it is about 2 km to the starting point of the MTB routes in the famous Ilsetal. From there, you take the MTB tracks W3, W6, and W7 into the Harz National Park.

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Additional information

The Volksbank Arena Harz is also available on YouTube.

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Author

Volksbank Arena Harz

Organization

Harz: Magische Gebirgswelt

License (master data)

Map

**The Harz for Mountain Bikers**

Through the extremely varied North German low mountain range landscape run 74 signposted mountain bike circular routes (total length 2,300 km), classified into three difficulty levels. 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. There is also 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

Ilsenburg (Harz)

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