By bike from Helmond to Sittard

Are you up for a long bike ride that takes you from Helmond all the way to South Limburg? Then this route is tailor-made for you. You will pass through numerous nature reserves and charming towns. Get on your bike and explore two provinces in one route.

Strabrechtse Heide
From Helmond you drive to the woods of Molenheide. After this nature reserve, a pleasant pit stop awaits you at De Strabrechtse Hoeve. Then you cycle across the vast Strabrechtse Heide, where you can see what large parts of Brabant once looked like. From the forests of the Somerense Heide you enter the Peel. Here, car-free roads lead you through a mosaic of fields, grasslands and small forest plots to Nederweert.

Sittard
You then pass through Sarsven and De Banen, a small-scale nature reserve with willow thickets, gale and dry forests. In Limburg church villages such as Grathem and Beegden you can admire beautiful old farms and churches. You cross the Maas, after which the landscape gradually begins to undulate. You pass through the Reigersbroek nature reserve, after which you briefly cross Germany via Montfort,