Cycling through water and heathland

During this cycling tour you will enjoy two exceptional cycling experiences in a tour through Central Limburg. You cycle towards C-mine in Genk after which you go towards the Hoge Kempen National Park. We enter the park at the Kattevennen Access Gate. Shady forest paths lead you via Zutendaal to junction 550, the starting point for 'Cycling through the Heath' in the Hoge Kempen National Park, a 4 km long route across the Mechelse Heide. At first you cycle through rugged forests, but then you get heathland, as far as the eye can see. And talk about looking far! Climb the lookout tower at Station As or the Bliksemtrap in Kattevennen for a beautiful panorama of the National Park and the Limburg mining region. You set course along the mine spoil tips of Waterschei, Zwartberg and Winterslag towards Bokrijk. Here the cycle path goes straight through a pond, from one bank to the other: 'Cycling through Water' at junction 91, with the water surface at eye level on either side.