Écluse Muehlenmatten – Port of Dannemarie loop from Fesches-le-Châtel

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France

Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

Montbéliard

Fesches-Le-Châtel

Écluse Muehlenmatten – Port of Dannemarie loop from Fesches-le-Châtel

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Écluse Muehlenmatten – Port of Dannemarie loop from Fesches-le-Châtel

02:37

57.6km

300m

Road cycling

Moderate road ride. Good fitness required. Some segments of this route may be unpaved and difficult to ride. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: September 10, 2026

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Includes a movable bridge

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After 47.8 km for 20 m

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Montbéliard–Haute-Saône Canal beside the Allan

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All these canals are excellent ways to bike on the trails, or rather busy roads, this is another one that could help make this ride into a loop.
The Haute-Saône Canal, still called the Montbéliard Canal in the Haute-Saône, is a waterway that begins in the north of the Doubs department, crosses the south-western part of the Territoire de Belfort and an unfinished section, is located in the eastern part of Haute-Saone. It is after the loss of Alsace in 1871 that the government of the Third Republic decided in 1878 the construction of canals in the East of France to allow the circulation of the goods, and in particular the Lorraine steel products towards Franche -Comté, between the region of Nancy and those of Burgundy and Franche-Comté. One of the first projects concerned the construction of the Eastern Canal, which began around 1875 and was completed in 1887, and that of the Haute-Saône Canal, which was to link the French part of the Rhone-Rhine Canal to the Eastern Canal. . The goal was also to serve the coal mines of Ronchamp and to evacuate the coal produced in its wells. fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal_de_la_Haute-Sa%C3%B4ne

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Rhine-Rhone Canal near Froidefontaine

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The cycle path along the canal is superbly maintained and runs through beautiful countryside. However, the starting and finishing points near Bourgogne and Bretagne raise geographical questions as to whether one is still truly in Alsace...

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Rhein-Rhone Kanal Schnellstrecke

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Virtually no incline, good asphalt – everything invites you to pedal briskly through beautiful nature.

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Valdieu-Lutran lock scale

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In west - east direction it goes over 12 Schleußen downhill to the level of the Rhine

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