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Observation Tower De Wulp – Boardwalk near Boundary Marker N485 loop from Hageven

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Observation Tower De Wulp – Boardwalk near Boundary Marker N485 loop from Hageven

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Observation Tower De Wulp – Boardwalk near Boundary Marker N485 loop from Hageven

05:00

19.9km

20m

Hiking

Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: June 24, 2026

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567 m

Hageven Birdwatching Hut

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The hut is built on the edge of a large pond, surrounded by reed fields and forests. This provides an ideal habitat for many water birds, such as ducks, geese …

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1.45 km

Observation Tower De Wulp

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The lookout tower is approximately 30 meters high and offers a beautiful panoramic view of the De Wulp nature reserve and the surrounding area. The De Wulp nature reserve is …

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2.36 km

Wooden suspension bridge over the Dommel

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Nice wooden footbridge, a real suspension bridge, nice to take pictures or just to stop and enjoy.

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2.73 km

Boardwalk near Boundary Marker N485

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There is no boardwalk here at all (anymore?). You walk past a fen.

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3.01 km

View of De Wulp Nature Reserve

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Here you walk along the border, just inside Belgium, and you have a beautiful view of the nature reserve and its grazers.

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4.20 km

Natuurpark Plateaux-Hageven

Nature Reserve

6.91 km

Boardwalk at Hageven

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A very beautiful, picturesque boardwalk.

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9.68 km

About Den Draad

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Even now you regularly step over the pasture wire...

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10.6 km

Trail along the Dommel

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The path along the Dommel goes through meadows with barbed wire, but each barbed wire has a bench so you can easily step over it

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19.9 km

End point

Parking

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

9.83 km

8.54 km

1.46 km

< 100 m

Surfaces

12.0 km

4.60 km

1.47 km

1.04 km

804 m

Elevation

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Thursday 25 June

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Comments

June 7, 2025,Grenswandeling in de Dommelvallei (Originele Wandelingen)

Five years ago I did this walk - which comes from the website Origineel Wandelingen - but the route is nice enough to do it again after a lustrum. Some rain is predicted, but under the Scottish proverb "There's no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing" I set off anyway. Later I learn that weathermen and politicians are …

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January 21, 2024,Z39: Grenswandeling in de Dommelvallei, NEERPELT

Our next "originelewandeling.be" is the Border Walk in the Dommel Valley. Maybe a swampy area, but we counted on enough ice. It immediately became our first twinitger of '24.
This cross-border walk runs all the way along the banks of the Dommel. This river originates on the Kempen Plateau in Limburg. It was once an important river, and it was …

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December 2, 2023,Natuurpark Plateaux - Hageven (Bergeijk)

Today we took a nice walk through the Plateaux - Hageven Nature Park. We walk the first part through forests, on boardwalks and partly along the beautiful Dommel.

Along the Dommel we regularly have to step over the pasture wire using an entry and exit step. The steps are sturdy and the barbed wire is shielded.

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January 19, 2025,Natuurpark Plateaux - Hageven (Bergeijk)

on the way back home we walked a beautiful route in the Plateaux-Hageven nature park... it is a Dutch-Belgian nature reserve with forest, heath, fens, grasslands and floodplains (a water system from the early 19th century) you also walk for a while along the meandering Dommel river... a varied route with boardwalks, several crossings and the icing on the cake …

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March 8, 2026,Borkel aan de Dommel

Winter was banished all week, early spring was already making sunny plans...

But this morning the sun was still asleep, yet we drove to the Netherlands for a walk...

Borkel had fog and mist visiting, mysticism was already around the first corner...

Along the Dommel River it was quiet and serene, the rippling water following us...

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May 15, 2022,Hageven grensoverschrijdend wandelen

Nice walk with a lot of variety. Fens, field roads, forest, heath

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April 20, 2025,Plateaux - Hageven Rondtocht vanuit Borkel

What a lovely Easter walk today. The nature reserve we walked through was new to us and had a few nice surprising elements, winding forest paths, flowing Dommel, fens, boardwalks and much more. Too bad about the last kilometers, they are a bit boring. Next time I think we will just walk the other way around, that is also a …

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February 4, 2023,Hageven - De Plateaux vanuit Borkel en Schaft

I once saved this route to walk again. Turns out I waited way too long. 🙂 It's a beautiful route through the border area with Belgium. I will definitely return here in the spring.

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Observation Tower De Wulp – Boardwalk near Boundary Marker N485 loop from Hageven

Hageven Birdwatching Hut

Observation Tower De Wulp

Wooden suspension bridge over the Dommel

Boardwalk near Boundary Marker N485

View of De Wulp Nature Reserve

Boardwalk at Hageven

About Den Draad

Trail along the Dommel

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