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Den Tus Pond – Gerhees Fort loop from Natuurreservaat Gerheserheide

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Den Tus Pond – Gerhees Fort loop from Natuurreservaat Gerheserheide

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Den Tus Pond – Gerhees Fort loop from Natuurreservaat Gerheserheide

03:55

15.5km

30m

Hiking

Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: July 30, 2026

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Natuurreservaat Gerheserheide

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1.62 km

Gerheserheide Heathland

Highlight • Natural

Beautiful to walk through the path. Plenty of heather on both sides within an area demarcated with barbed wire where the nightjar can breed. Tip: visit early in the morning.

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2.24 km

Den Tus Pond

Highlight • Lake

Den Tus is one of the fens that remain from when the Gerserheide region formed a large heath landscape with fens. A few years ago, the site was awarded 1 …

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3.66 km

Fit-o-Meter Gerheserbos and Heide

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Not enough after your trip? Or warm up all together? There is a full fit-o-meter at the De Merel swimming pool and the parking lot where the walks start. This …

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6.88 km

Gerhees Fort

Highlight • Historical Site

The Schans van Gerhees (Kolverdijk, 3945 Ham) dates from the seventeenth century. The fortress is a rectangle of earthen walls, built in the middle of a fen and surrounded by …

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7.30 km

Bonnekesven

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Was dry for the moment...

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9.08 km

Viewpoint Over the Schans van Gerhees

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Looking at the fort (and nearby reading about that fort) of Gerhees. See ham.be/product/444/schans-van-gerhees

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11.1 km

Gerheserheide Nature Reserve

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Heathland and forest, several paths lead you through...

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14.0 km

Forest Path Near Pond in Belgium

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Super nice trails...

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15.5 km

End point

Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

7.13 km

6.17 km

1.30 km

848 m

Surfaces

7.54 km

3.38 km

2.00 km

1.93 km

594 m

Elevation

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Weather

Sunday 23 August

23°C

7°C

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Comments

January 9, 2022,Tour

Very nice walk again 🚶‍♀️ with wife in Heppen

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April 6, 2024,Nachtzwaluwpad Gerheserheide en -bossen in Leopoldsburg Heppen

#province of Limburg
#leopoldsburg #heppen #ham
Gerheser forests and heath - Nightjar path
Walk of 7 km, largely unpaved. Since Tequila also wanted to discover other paths 😜, we did 8.5 km.
If you walk through this area of approximately 300 hectares in the Limburg Kempen, you will mainly see sandy soils and dunes covered with pine forests. But if …

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May 27, 2023,Heppen: Gerheserbos en -heide

Beautiful nature walk through woods and wooded heathland. Ideal shadow walk for a hot day because for 90% you walk on shaded forest roads and paths.
On the way over a boardwalk through the swampy Schans van Gerhees. Place with a history, the panels tell about it. A little further a decorated Lourdes grotto in the forest, it is the …

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Den Tus Pond – Gerhees Fort loop from Natuurreservaat Gerheserheide

Gerheserheide Heathland

Den Tus Pond

Fit-o-Meter Gerheserbos and Heide

Gerhees Fort

Bonnekesven

Viewpoint Over the Schans van Gerhees

Gerheserheide Nature Reserve

Forest Path Near Pond in Belgium

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