Emscherland Experience Park – EmscherLand sign on the hill loop from Dortmund-Mengede

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Germany

North Rhine-Westphalia

Ruhr Region

Emscherland Experience Park – EmscherLand sign on the hill loop from Dortmund-Mengede

Moderate

4.5

(90)

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Emscherland Experience Park – EmscherLand sign on the hill loop from Dortmund-Mengede

02:18

35.8km

80m

Cycling

Moderate bike ride. Good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: September 24, 2026

Tips

Includes a segment in which cycling is not permitted

After 25.3 km for 76 m

Waypoints

Start point

Train Station

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9.73 km

Emscherland Experience Park

Highlight • Rest Area

Already worth seeing with the renatured Emscher! But only when the bridge "Jump over the Emscher" is completed will it become a real highlight!!! 🤩

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9.91 km

EmscherLand sign on the hill

Highlight • Monument

There will be something else coming in 2027 (keyword IGA, not only here metropole.ruhr/auf-dem-weg-zur-gruensten-industrieregion-der-welt/iga-2027-castrop-rauxel/recklinghausen, also in the Middle Rhine Valley near St. Goarshausen - Lorelay and elsewhere)

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10.1 km

Emscherland Park and River Restoration

Highlight • Parking

Anyone who still knows the old Köttelbecke and, above all, has smelled it... will have tears of joy in their eyes. Beautiful.

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10.4 km

Renatured Emscher River

Highlight • River

Here the Emscher is clean again after being a cesspool for 150 years.

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10.5 km

Emscher Art Trail "Walkway and Tower"

Highlight • Monument

As part of the "Emscherkunst", Tadashi Kawamata designed an observation tower in 2010, to which a kind of pier system leads. Near the water cross of Emscher and Rhein-Herne-Kanal near …

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11.7 km

Emscher Horse Sculptures

Highlight • Monument

A beautiful, new rest area on the Emscher cycle path. I don't know why there are blue horses, but it looks nice and you can certainly have a nice picnic …

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13.4 km

König Ludwig – Emscherland Sculpture

Highlight • Monument

something new always worth a photo stop

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22.7 km

Rhein-Herne Canal

Highlight (Segment) • River

Every canal in Europe is easy to navigate. In Germany, they are under the control of the shipping authorities. There are so-called "commercial routes of the authority" along the canals everywhere.

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35.8 km

End point

Train Station

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

17.7 km

5.63 km

5.33 km

5.22 km

1.59 km

175 m

108 m

Surfaces

15.0 km

14.0 km

3.95 km

1.97 km

666 m

218 m

Elevation

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Weather

Sunday 11 October

16°C

5°C

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Comments

July 28, 2024,Köttelbecke gucken in Castrop Rauxel

Today we went to the Emscher, formerly better known as Köttelbecke, in Castrop Rauxel after a really long time. When mining and the resulting masses of people moved to the Ruhr area, it was decided to dispose of human and industrial waste via the Emscher towards the Rhine and then into the sea. It was considered the dirtiest river in …

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September 4, 2022,Emscherland Baustellenführung 🚧

With the family to Castrop this morning. We were able to get three places for the construction site tour, a really great event.
After the tour we ate and drank something, we continued cycling along the Emscher to the Emscher floodplains in Mengede, where we went back home for coffee and cake. The first kilometers of city cycling have already …

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August 23, 2025,Tour de Ruhr - Entlang des #RHK und #emscherweg

A Saturday tour 🚲 with friends. Along the changing Emscher meadows, the Emscherweg, and the canal cycle path (with detours). A lot going on on a Saturday. 🫂😎@

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