Weiacher Höhe – Alter Züriweg Trail loop from Bülach

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Weiacher Höhe – Alter Züriweg Trail loop from Bülach

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Weiacher Höhe – Alter Züriweg Trail loop from Bülach

02:59

34.8km

580m

Mountain biking

Moderate mountain bike ride. Good fitness required. Advanced riding skills necessary. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: August 10, 2026

Tips

Includes a very steep uphill segment

You may need to push your bike.

After 6.12 km for 95 m

Waypoints

Start point

Train Station

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1.47 km

Singletrack trail along the railway to Glattfelden

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The tour is a single trail experience with everything from easy to challenging sections. Thanks to a few tree trunks on the way, it's also a bunny hop tour ;-) At point 3 downhill, the path is closed and impassable due to the many trees lying all over the place. Today we turned right at the intersection and found an equally cool path down. The tour is easy to do even in wet conditions and is mostly in the forest, which is a real shaded tour for the summer.
If you only know the region by car, you don't necessarily expect so many climbs and trails, but the region really has a lot to offer.

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5.92 km

Trail to Laubberg

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There is now an official cycling ban at the start of the Gradweg

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12.7 km

View of the railway bridge over the Glatt

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A stone arch bridge spans the Glatt just before the mouth.

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13.0 km

Rheinsfelden Hydroelectric Power Station

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Huge facility !!!

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15.5 km

Renatured Gravel Pit at Zurzach

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Natural demolition of a gigantic gravel pit

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19.9 km

Weiacher Höhe

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The "Stein" is a 547 meter high molasse mountain southeast of the town of Weiach. On top of the sandstones and marls of the molasse lies a layer of so-called "middle cover gravel". The former river gravel is partially cemented together. This means it resists erosion better than the deeper molasse layers and therefore forms striking rock faces on the north side facing the Rhine and on the southwest side. These contrast with the plateau-like plateau at the top of the "Stein".
Rock face formed by middle cover gravel on the southwest edge of the "Stein"; in the background, steam rises from the cooling tower of the Leibstadt nuclear power plant.
On the plateau-like plateau at the top of the "Stein".
The best view from the edge of the plateau of the "Stein" is in winter, when the deciduous trees are bare. In places, the view then extends as far as the Alps.
At the foot of the rock face formed by the middle cover gravels, a small cave has been formed by weathering.
The middle cover gravels were deposited in an earlier ice age, not the last one, and are therefore at least 200,000 years old. If the molasse beneath them is removed by erosion, the cover gravels can temporarily form unstable overhangs. Eventually, rock masses break off and fall as small rockfalls over the mountain flanks. The fallen cover gravel blocks now form magical miniature landscapes in some places on the wooded slopes.

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20.3 km

Viewpoint

28.1 km

Alter Züriweg Trail

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slightly sloping and practically root-free flowiger Trail

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34.8 km

End point

Train Station

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

20.1 km

6.90 km

2.94 km

2.52 km

2.15 km

143 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

11.1 km

8.86 km

7.69 km

5.29 km

1.11 km

656 m

< 100 m

Elevation

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Highest point (540 m)

Lowest point (340 m)

Weather

Thursday 15 October

21°C

9°C

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Max wind speed: 4.0 km/h

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Comments

April 10, 2025,Mountainbiketour

It was a great tour, with lots of flowing trails. Only the section along the Rhine was very difficult, narrow, and dangerous, as the path slopes toward the river.

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February 7, 2025,Weiacher Höhe –flowige Trailrunde

Cool route starting from Bülach. Much more trail than I expected. I can recommend it without reservation. The trails along the Rhine are very narrow and should not be used on days when there are a lot of hikers. There is no ban yet, just a request to be considerate.

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November 2, 2022,Herbstliche Morgentrainingstour

A morning training tour towards Rhinsberg, Paradiesli and Leuenkopf. Finally made the old Züriweg. Some of the trails were dry, but they weren't always easy to see because of the foliage.

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