Bike Kingdom Park Lenzerheide

Bike Kingdom Park Lenzerheide is the lift-served bike park at the heart of Bike Kingdom, the linked riding area spanning Arosa, Lenzerheide and Chur in the Swiss canton of Graubünden, and home to the STRAIGHTline, the course used for UCI Mountain Bike World Cup downhill racing. The Rothorn gondola serves five lines: the easy FLOWline, the intermediate PRIMEline and SHOREline, and the black STYLEline and STRAIGHTline, with jumps, berms and North Shore woodwork throughout. There's a skills centre at the valley station, a free kids' Learning Lab and a pump track in the village, and the same ticket opens up the wider Bike Kingdom trail network and waymarked gravel routes across the region.

The Trails

All five bike park lines run from Scharmoin, the Rothorn gondola's middle station at 1,904m, back down to the valley station at around 1,500m beside Lake Heidsee. The operator describes them as continuously maintained and expanded with new features, and designed to be combined as you like.

• FLOWline (easy): around 2.6km and 400m of descent, the longest line in the park. Flow country riding on gentler terrain, full of turns and small jumps.
• PRIMEline (intermediate): around 2.2km. A classic freeride line with berms, jumps and North Shore elements.
• SHOREline (intermediate): a short line of just under 1km, built around long runs of wooden North Shore bridges at a range of difficulty levels.
• STYLEline (black): a short, playful slopestyle line weaving through the forest.
• STRAIGHTline (black): the World Cup downhill track, around 1.7km and 400m of descent in steep terrain, with big jumps and drops.

The park grades its lines on its own easy, intermediate and difficult scale, shown in blue, red and black. Helmets and gloves are compulsory in the park, and full-face helmets and body protection are recommended. The HIKINGline, a footpath running alongside the park, is a good way for non-riders in your group to watch the action.

Newer riders and children are well looked after. A skills centre at the Rothorn valley station is the place to practise the basics before heading up the hill, and the Bike Kingdom Learning Lab in the nearby Canols forest is a free, next-generation skills area for children, running from a green Learning Lab Loop to a blue Jump Line, with stations that teach real trail situations such as fence crossings and passing livestock. Lenzerheide also has a public pump track.

Beyond the park, Lenzerheide's six lifts give access to a much bigger network of waymarked Bike Kingdom trails, including The Great White, Dark Side of the Moon, Urdenfürggli Twister, Scalottas Nord, Top Fops, Motta-Express and the Älplisee Trail. The Urdenbahn cable car links over to Arosa, where the Hörnli Trail and Weisshorn Trail are the headline descents, and there is also a separate lift-served bike park, Alpenbikepark Chur, down in the valley at Chur. For a second base on the same trip, Flims Laax is also in Graubünden, around an hour\'s drive away.

Admission and Prices

Riding the bike park needs a lift ticket, and bike transport is included in the ticket price. A Bike Kingdom ticket covers the lifts in Arosa, Lenzerheide and Chur, and online prices for summer 2026 start from 53 Swiss francs for one day, 102 francs for two days and 317 francs for seven days, with a season pass from 480 francs. Booking online saves at least 6% compared with the ticket office. Adult rates apply from age 16, with reduced child rates from age 6 to 15. A Late Shred ticket, valid from 3pm, covers the park's extended evening opening in high summer. Bike Kingdom Park is also part of the Gravity Card scheme, a multi-park season pass (680 euros for adults in 2026) that covers the Arosa and Lenzerheide lifts but not Alpenbikepark Chur. Prices are correct as of September 2026 but subject to change, so check current rates on the Bike Kingdom website before you book.

Gravel Riding

Bike Kingdom publishes a set of gravel routes around Lenzerheide on quiet forest roads, alpine tracks and side roads. The highlight loop runs from Sporz through the Bual forest above the Albula valley, via Lantsch/Lenz and a climb into the wild Val Meltger, with a suspension bridge along the way, before rolling back to Lenzerheide. Download a route or use GPS navigation before you set off.

Getting There from the UK

Zurich is the nearest major airport and the usual gateway. Lenzerheide is around 150km away, roughly a 1 hour 45 minute drive, or around 2 hours 30 minutes by public transport: a direct train from the airport to Chur takes about an hour and a half, then the PostBus up to the Rothornbahn stop at the bike park takes around half an hour. Bike reservations are compulsory on the Chur to Lenzerheide PostBus, and you can book one in the SBB app when you add a bike to your ticket. Swiss intercity trains also need a bike reservation at busy times through the summer season, so book ahead.

By rail from the UK, take the Eurostar to Paris and a high-speed train on to Zurich or Basel, then Swiss trains to Chur and the PostBus up the hill. Eurostar only carries fully assembled bikes between London and Brussels. Between London and Paris your bike has to travel dismantled in a bike bag or box, so check the current rules and book a bike space in advance. Many riders sidestep all of this by hiring a bike in Lenzerheide.

Driving from Calais is around 870km, roughly nine and a half hours, through France and into Switzerland via Basel, then on to Chur and up to Lenzerheide. You need a Swiss motorway vignette, sold as a sticker or an e-vignette, to use Swiss motorways.

Getting Here

The bike park starts from the Rothorn gondola valley station on Voa Principala in Lenzerheide, at the edge of Lake Heidsee, with the Rothorn car park right beside it. The Rothornbahn PostBus stop is at the valley station. The ticket office, a skills area and a bar are at the base, with restaurants at both the valley station and Scharmoin. When the Rothorn car park is closed for events, the Valbella car park at the north end of the lake is the alternative.

When to Go

The Rothorn gondola usually starts carrying bikes in mid-May, at weekends and on selected weekdays, then runs daily from early June until late October. Some lifts run at weekends into November, depending on the weather. Early-season opening can slip when snow lingers or the trails are wet, and upper lifts elsewhere in Bike Kingdom may only partly open, so check the lift status page before you travel. From early July to mid-August the gondola runs until 7.30pm every day, giving you extra evening laps in the park.

Late June through September gives the most reliable riding. July and August are the busiest months, coinciding with the Swiss and wider European summer holidays. Lenzerheide is a regular UCI Mountain Bike World Cup venue, and the park closes for several days around race weekends, with restrictions on some lines in the run-up. It also hosts the long-running Testride bike demo festival each year in late summer. September is usually quieter once the school holidays are over. The park sits between 1,500m and 1,900m, so mornings can be cool even in midsummer, and afternoon thunderstorms are common in the Alps in summer, so pack a waterproof.

Where to Stay

Lenzerheide itself is the natural base, with the Rothorn valley station on the main street, so you can ride from your door without needing a car. Valbella, at the north end of the lake, is the next village along and also well placed. Churwalden, further down the valley towards Chur, has its own lift into the Bike Kingdom, and Parpan sits between the two, all linked by the PostBus. Chur itself is a city option around half an hour away by bus.

Accommodation runs from hotels, including dedicated bike hotels, to holiday apartments and chalets. There are campsites at Lenzerheide, Lantsch/Lenz and Churwalden, plus motorhome pitches. Wild camping is banned throughout the Lenzerheide holiday region. Some hotels sell stay-and-ride packages that bundle a Bike Kingdom lift pass. If you stay in Arosa, the Arosa Card for overnight guests gives a discount on Bike Kingdom day and multi-day tickets bought in Arosa.

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