Cycling
Cycling to Lake Titisee — and why it's quicker than driving
There’s one sentence about this holiday apartment that almost nobody believes the first time they hear it: Lake Titisee is closer by bike than by car.
That isn’t a figure of speech or a marketing trick. It’s simply geography. If you drive, you have to go the long way round: 16 kilometres, a good 19 minutes. The cycle path, on the other hand, runs through the valley and takes 8 kilometres. Exactly half.
What that means in practice
On an e-bike you’re at the water in about 30 minutes. That’s roughly the time you’d otherwise spend in summer looking for a parking space at Lake Titisee. We rent out two e-bikes, and to be honest, this route is the main reason why.
One detail makes the maths even better: the Strandbad, the lido at Lake Titisee, charges no admission. It’s open daily from 9 am to 7 pm. So there’s no reason to plan your day around the ticket booth — ride there, jump in, ride home when it gets cool.
How long it really takes
All times here are measured from our front door, not estimated, and double-checked with two independent route planners:
| Destination | by bike | by car |
|---|---|---|
| Strandbad Titisee | 8 km · 30 min | 16 km · 19 min |
| Titisee station | 7.8 km · 31 min | 14 km · 19 min |
| Lenzkirch village centre | 2.4 km · 7 min | 2.5 km · 4 min |
| Schluchsee | 12.6 km · 50 min | 13 km · 15 min |
Titisee station is the second piece of good news in this table. Leave your bike there and you can carry on by train without ever getting into a car — and with the guest card, travel is free throughout the Black Forest.
Where the bike is the worse choice
To keep the maths honest: with the Feldberg, it’s the other way round. By car it’s 25 minutes to the valley station. By bike it’s 20 kilometres and 580 metres of climbing — that’s not an afternoon ride but a day trip, and you should plan it as one.
Lake Schluchsee, too, is more of an outing than a ride by bike: 50 minutes compared with a quarter of an hour by car. Lovely, but not something you do on the spur of the moment with a towel and swimming things.
When you get back
After your ride, the apartment is at ground level, there’s a terrace with heat lamps for the evening and a small Finnish sauna in the garden. The e-bikes have their own storeroom, and your own bike fits outside under the covered parking space.
More about swimming in the area is in Swimming around Lenzkirch, and what winter has to offer here is in Winter in Lenzkirch.
