Tour of Het Hurkske and Rauwven

Today you will take a nice quiet walk through a mixed forest and along the Rauwven. After a cup of coffee at KOKS Binnen & Buiten Genoen, you will put on your walking shoes. Just outside Koks you walk through the Hurkske, a nature reserve of about 170 hectares. The Hurkse was once a heathland area, it was planted in the first years of the twentieth century with conifers such as black pine, Norway spruce and Douglas fir. Nowadays there is more diversity, including American oaks. One moment the path winds, the next it is straight. What a change! There is an agricultural development in the middle of the forest. Every now and then you have beautiful views over the fields and fields. Between junctions 97 and 96 you pass the Rauwven, the largest fen in this nature reserve.