Hiking route
Heysen Trail
1105.1 km· ↗ 15598 m· waymarked· Mountain trail· National route
The trail is in South Australia. A 1105 km point-to-point route: the finish is not where you started. Total ascent is about 15598 m. Elevations along the way range from 0 to 960 m. The trail is waymarked on the ground.
This description is assembled from OpenStreetMap data and our own terrain calculation.
Surface
- unpaved — 194.7 km (18%)
- dirt — 90.9 km (8%)
- gravel — 56.7 km (5%)
- asphalt — 43.7 km (4%)
- paved — 6.9 km (1%)
- other — 2.7 km (0%)
- not recorded — 715.7 km (64%)
Surface data comes from OpenStreetMap tags on the route's ways.
Who is allowed
- MTB difficulty: S0
The OpenStreetMap mtb:scale, where 0 is an easy path and 6 is barely rideable. The route shows its HARDEST section.
Trail geometry and data come from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL). Check them on the ground: waymarking can go out of date.