Etape Loch Ness | 106km
Rolling. No climb will break you; the sum of them might.
- Climbing
- 900 m
- Per km
- 8.5 m
- At 5%+
- 2%
- High point
- 388 m
- under -3%3.3 km
- -3 to 1%85.9 km
- 1 to 3%11.5 km
- 3 to 5%3.6 km
- 5 to 8%1.4 km
- 8 to 12%0.7 km
| From | Length | Gain | Avg | Max |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| km 55.1 | 7.9 km | 359 m | 4.6% | 8.1% |
Climbs measured from the route file, not the race blurb. The profile carries a point roughly every 0.7 km, so a short ramp inside a climb reads smoother here than it does under your wheels, and each climb’s gain is a floor rather than a total.
- 2027Updated
2027 edition announced — April 25, 2027. Registration opens later.
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The Etape Loch Ness is Scotland's largest closed-road cycling event, routing 106 km around the full circumference of Loch Ness on entirely traffic-free roads. Passing Urquhart Castle, Fort Augustus, and the Caledonian Canal, the route's key challenge is the Glendoe timed climb — 9 km at gradients up to 12% — before a fast return along the eastern shore to Inverness. Now in its 12th edition, it regularly sells out months in advance.