Bikepark Lenzerheide
- Location
- Lenzerheide, Graubünden
- Season
- Late May to mid-October
- Lift access
- Yes — Rothorn gondola + chairlifts
- Trails
- ~9 marked bike trails including the UCI DH World Cup track
- Easiest grade
- Blue (Straight Line)
- Hardest grade
- Black (UCI DH World Cup track)
- Day pass
- Bike day pass CHF 49 / week CHF 215 (~£44 day / ~£190 week)
- Nearest airport
- Zurich (ZRH)
Bikepark Lenzerheide is one of Europe's best-run modern bike parks and a regular host of the UCI Downhill and Cross-Country World Cup. The Rothorn gondola lifts bikes to the top of the mountain and drops you onto a graded trail network that runs from family-friendly flow to the literal World Cup downhill track.
Almost everyone. The Straight Line and Easy Flow trails are properly beginner-friendly. The middle grades are wide, well-shaped and forgiving. Then if you're brave you can session the same dirt the World Cup pros race. Hard to think of a bike park that better serves an entire mixed group.
Trail or enduro bike. Big bike for repeated DH laps. Full-face required on the World Cup track. The bike-park area is well-signed and the lift staff are used to international riders.
World Cup pedigree on accessible terrain. Few parks combine a genuinely beginner-friendly green with a UCI-grade DH course on the same mountain. Lenzerheide's build standards are top-tier. The town itself is small, modern and quiet — more low-key than the headline Tirol or French resorts. The on-mountain restaurants are good and the lift staff handle bikes with practiced efficiency. Worth pairing with a few days in nearby Davos or the wider Graubünden trail network.
World Cup context: Lenzerheide has been a fixture on the UCI Downhill and Cross-Country World Cup calendar in recent seasons. If a World Cup is on, expect the bike park to be closed to the public for a few days around the race but the spectator experience to be world-class. Quieter weeks in early summer and September are the sweet spot. The Swiss train network gets you to Chur and then the bus or PostAuto runs up to Lenzerheide — no hire car needed if you're travelling light or with a bike bag.
Top trails to ride
- Straight Line Blue
Perfect intro flow — wide berms, rollable jumps. - World Cup DH track Black
The real thing — fast, technical, raced by the world's best. - Tgantieni Trail Red
Long, varied red descent for intermediates.
Getting there from Ireland
Fly Dublin → Zurich. ~1hr45 drive south-east into Graubünden. Train option via Chur is excellent.
Where to stay
Resort hotels in Lenzerheide village and nearby Valbella; many include bike pass.