Legi Trail – Dunkelboden Trail loop from Benken SG

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Switzerland

Eastern Switzerland

St. Gallen

Legi Trail – Dunkelboden Trail loop from Benken SG

Hard

4.8

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339

riders

Legi Trail – Dunkelboden Trail loop from Benken SG

02:18

28.1km

400m

Mountain biking

Hard mountain bike ride. Good fitness required. Advanced riding skills necessary. Some portions of the route may require you to push your bike. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: August 2, 2026

Tips

Includes a segment in which cycling is not permitted

After 22.1 km for 144 m

Waypoints

Start point

Train Station

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3.59 km

Kaltbrunner Riet Nature Reserve

Highlight • Natural Monument

Very nice nature reserve with a publicly accessible observation tower.

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5.43 km

Linthwerk and Wasserschloss Gynau

Highlight • Monument

Always beautiful views from the bridge! On both sides of the bridge, there are cycle paths/walking paths along the Linth Canal, up to Ziegelbrücke or to the mouth of the Obersee, all perfectly flat.

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14.4 km

Legi Trail

Highlight (Segment) • Trail

Runs directly along the edge of the forest, in between there are one or two wild barbecues. Up here on this Legi meadow my father had to plant potatoes during the cultivation battle ...

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17.6 km

Dunkelboden Trail

Highlight (Segment) • Trail

Nice trail in the forest, on roots and some stones, S1, a point ev S2. Leads to the transmission mast (Buchberg summit).

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20.4 km

Buechberg

Forest

23.2 km

Easy, scenic singletrack

Highlight (Segment) • Trail

Flowiger, easier (S0), small trail, parallel to the busy country road.

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25.1 km

Kaltbrunner Riet

Highlight (Segment) • Natural

The Kaltbrunner Riet lies like an island in the agricultural area of the Linth Plain. It is the last remnant of the swamps that once shaped the area between Lake …

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28.1 km

End point

Train Station

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

18.8 km

4.66 km

3.86 km

447 m

212 m

186 m

Surfaces

9.43 km

8.28 km

5.30 km

4.54 km

305 m

126 m

115 m

Elevation

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Highest point (620 m)

Lowest point (400 m)

Weather

Monday 12 October

16°C

5°C

0 %

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Max wind speed: 6.0 km/h

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Comments

February 16, 2023,Kleine Afterwork-Bikerunde

Wonderfully sunny and spring-like weather again today 🌞. Grabbed a bike and a little bike ride on the Buechberg is always fun 🥳 . degrees back in the dark.

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March 23, 2022,Buechbergtrails inspiriert durch Jupp (Danke!)

Yesterday's contribution from Jupp motivated me to get to know more trails on the Buchberg. Tour adapted to my biobike and my strength (as few trails uphill as possible 😂) - cool round!

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March 22, 2022,Trailfeuerwerk am helllichten Tag! In der Mittagspause mal kurz die Trails am Buechberg gerockt!! 👌

It's not at all easy to ride 25 km of trails criss-crossing the Buechberg without ever crossing your own tracks!
The price for this was two DH, which I'm up, mostly driving was just fine, but it also took a few minutes to push! But the main thing is that the line doesn't intersect! 😂😂😂

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June 13, 2025,Mit’m Pit: „Nothing but trails!“ Buechberg unlimitted. Kreuz und Quer. Trocken. Schattig. Perfekt.

Trails galore! All dry! All shaded! Back and forth, back and forth over the Buechberg! Perfect for today's temperatures!
The trail options up there on the Buechberg are actually unlimited, but today they're limited solely by my work until nine, and now again from four... that's why we didn't leave until around eleven and had to take a shortcut at …

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June 13, 2025,trail, trail, trails schattentürli☀️🙏🏻☀️buechberg abgerockt

Out and about with Jupp...avoided the hot temperatures and did exactly the right thing with the forest trails on the Buechberg...80% in the shade on dry trails, rocking crisscross through the Buechberg forest...short but hearty🤘🤪

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April 7, 2022,"Trails!Trails!Trails!" Kreuz und quer und ziemlich nass mit Birgit übern Buechberg

Dry from above (until we were just sitting in the car again, lucky 🍀), but on the way over the Buechberg on single trails that are often still quite wet...
High proportion of single trails with many of the flowing Buechberg trails, we only preferred to leave out some of the more difficult sections of the S2 trails and higher... …

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April 23, 2022,buechberg türli🍀👌😎trails ohne ende mit jupp

super round on never ending trails ... with jupp

survive:
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April 23, 2022,„Trails!Trails!Trails!“ Mit Pit bis zum Abwinken kreuz und quer den Buechberg gerockt

Before the rain comes tomorrow, as the weather is getting better and better, quickly ride the powder-dry trails on the Buechberg back and forth and back and forth and up and down.....

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