sight
1 Cykelslangen (The Bicycle Snake)
The orange bike-only ramp snaking over the harbour - a Copenhagen icon you ride, not look at.
Easy · 16.5 km · 1 hr 40 min
Sydhavn Canals & BaneGaarden
Railway barns, canal houses and the harbour lock.
Sights & culture
Food & drink
Your route, stop by stop
Off the tourist map: over the Bicycle Snake and into the organic food village of BaneGaarden's 1909 railway barns, then south through Sluseholmen's canal blocks - where every house has a jetty - to wine at the old harbour lock and the gardens of Valbyparken.
Turn by turn
Directions
Street-by-street cues for the whole ride - the numbered stops match the pins on the map.
- Head south-west 239 m
- Turn left onto the path 57 m
- Turn right onto Havneholmen 289 m
- Turn left onto Skibbroen 215 m
- Turn left onto Tømmergravsgade 43 m
- Turn right onto the path 29 m
- Turn right onto Kortløb 67 m
- Turn left onto the path 913 m
- Bear right onto the path 84 m
- Bear right onto the path 238 m
- Turn right onto the path 110 m
- 1 BaneGaarden 110 m
- Turn left onto Gamle Vasbygade 85 m
- Turn right onto the path 125 m
- Turn left onto the path 764 m
- Turn right onto Teglholmsgade 591 m
- Turn left onto Teglholmens Sydkaj 21 m
- Turn left onto the path 18 m
- Continue onto Havnebussen 337 m
- 2 Sluseholmen Canal District 337 m
- Turn left onto the path 23 m
- Turn left onto Teglholmens Sydkaj 16 m
- Turn left onto Teglværksbroen 115 m
- Turn left onto Ben Websters Vej 298 m
- Turn right onto Oscar Pettifords Vej 347 m
- Turn left onto the path 166 m
- Turn left onto Ved Slusen 570 m
- Turn right onto the path 919 m
- Turn right onto the path 35 m
- Continue onto Center Boulevard 33 m
- Turn left onto Vejlands Allé 655 m
- Turn left onto Digevej 640 m
- Turn left onto the path 62 m
- 3 Café Slusen 62 m
- Turn right onto Digevej 624 m
- Turn right onto Vejlands Allé 648 m
- Turn right onto Vejlands Allé 52 m
- Turn left onto the path 642 m
- Bear left onto the path 299 m
- Turn left onto Ved Slusen 391 m
- Turn left onto the path 81 m
- Turn right onto the path 459 m
- Turn sharp right onto the path 272 m
- Turn right onto the path 708 m
- Bear right onto Fragtvej 302 m
- Bear right onto the path 445 m
- Bear right onto the path 94 m
- Bear right onto the path 42 m
- Turn right onto the path 348 m
- Turn right onto the path 493 m
- Turn left onto Julius Andersens Vej 141 m
- Turn right onto the path 38 m
- 4 Valbyparken 38 m
- Turn left onto Julius Andersens Vej 169 m
- Turn left onto Spontinisvej 1.4 km
- Turn left onto Vigerslev Allé 148 m
- Turn right onto Toftegårds Allé 120 m
- 5 Kær Kaffebar
Along the way
Stops worth making
restaurant
2 BaneGaarden
An organic "food village" of restored 1909 railway barns - bakery, pizza and open sky.
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sight
3 Sluseholmen Canal District
Amsterdam-style canal blocks where every house has a jetty.
cafe
4 Café Slusen
Waterside café at the old harbour lock - tinned fish and wine at the water's edge (from May).
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park
5 Valbyparken
17 themed gardens and the city's biggest lawn, out where the harbour opens up.