A multi-day stage route offering the biker an authentic and unexplored experience of the Val di Non.
Tour de Non is a multi-day stage route for mountain bikers that connects the mountainous regions of Trentino between the Brenta Dolomites and the Adige Valley. With a total length of 154 kilometers and over 6005 meters of elevation gain, the route is ideally divided into 4 stages. The route is at times very challenging and there are days where the accumulated elevation gain exceeds 1500 meters. For this reason, Tour de Non targets trained riders with technical skills as well as alpine experience.
Tour de Non offers the biker an authentic experience of the Val di Non, its biodiversity, fruit growing reality, and alpine world, places more anthropized as well as wilder and unexplored, even if this means riding some short less enjoyable sections on asphalt or climbing with the bike on your shoulder.
The concepts on which this tour is based are two:
1. to find and use as much as possible technically interesting trails minimizing dirt roads and asphalt roads 2. to cross all the landscape and cultural facets of the broad Val di Non: the southern area dedicated to the cultivation of the famous DOP apple, the imposing Brenta Dolomites with the famous Tovel Lake to the west, the amphitheater of the wild Maddalene group to the northwest, the Mendola massif to the east with 28 kilometers of ridge overlooking the Adige Valley, border areas between Italian and German-speaking populations.
Ranging from the lowest point at Ponte della Rocchetta (248 m) up to the highest point on Monte Roen (2100 m), the biker finds an ideal arena for two wheels made of wide plateaus, narrow rock canyons, panoramic peaks, ridges, and always changing altitudes.
A characteristic feature of the Tour de Non is the passage through small villages at the border between the province of Trento and the province of Bolzano where the strong contrasts in language, customs, and traditions of these mountain people are noticed, each living with their cultural heritage. This is the case of the South Tyrolean origin territory called Deutschnonsberg to the north of Val di Non with the populations of Proves/Proveis, Lauregno/Laurein, Senale/unsere Liebe Frau im Walde, and San Felice/St. Felix. Like the region that the Tour de Non crosses, it is a mixture of curiosities and contrasts.
