Maasduinen and Maasgaard
Cycling in a beautiful, varied landscape with forests, heathland, dunes, fens, stream valleys, floodplains, old river meanders and rose fields.
The Landscape
You have to be in the north of Limburg for the longest river dune belt and a unique terraced landscape. The area along the Maas was created by a centuries-old interplay between water, wind and people. Due to erosion, the water from the river gave the landscape a terraced structure and the wind caused the sand to be blown up into parabolic dunes, sometimes up to 25 meters high. These dunes along the Maas are almost all covered with forest. Afforestation was therefore the only way to protect farm life and the citizens against the wild drifting sands. Nowhere in Europe do we find a similar terraced river, in which the geological history has been so beautifully preserved.
Forests and Heaths
Polders and Farmlands
Lakes and Ponds
Rivers and Streams
Bike with us
Route map
You will bike in the vicinity of the towns of Arcen, Lomm, Lottum, Blitterswijck, and Venlo.
Start and finish at bike node 74 on the Twistedenerweg in Wellerlooi. However, this bike route is a circular tour, so it offers the possibility to start from any of the following bike nodes.
74 - 73 - 63 - 49 - 47 - 46 - 94 - 44 - 27 - 28 - 92 - 98 - 91 - 82 - 89 - 90 - 57 - 09 - 10 - 11 - 58 - 14 - 15 - 27 - 62 - 74
