Dassenaarde: how nature restoration creates silence, peace and space

automatic translation

8.8 km • Tessenderlo-Ham

official route

3.0122 2 4.5/5

8.8 km

route offered by

more info

Icon starting point Addresse starting point (approximate)

Parking aan Kiewithoeve, Goor 12, 3980 Tessenderlo-Ham

Icon type signage of route signage

The route is partially signposted with nodes. Use a GPS device or our app to follow the route.

Icon description route Description

You won't find badgers there anymore. Otherwise, nature thrives in Groot-Asdonk and Dassenaarde, on the border between the Hageland and the Kempen. Explore the green lung of Molenstede and walk through a varied landscape of wet valley floors and dry hillsides. Along the way you will encounter centuries-old chapels, German trenches and mewling friends.

This is one of the nine walks from the book 'Ode aan de Merode 9X'. Get carried away by music, images and compelling stories about Landscape Park de Merode.
More info at bezoekdemerode.be.

Beware: between node 268 and 934 you briefly leave the junctions and hike up the Eikelenberg, until you encounter signs towards node 933 again.

automatic translation

Icon nodes to follow nodes to follow

0 km

0.5 km

1.3 km

2.2 km

2.9 km

3.3 km

3.8 km

4.1 km

5 km

5.4 km

5.9 km

7.1 km

7.5 km

7.9 km

8.2 km

8.7 km

This route has 2 review(s).

Rate route!

Sunday, June 14, 2026 by Kris DehamersParking at Brasserie Kiewitshoeve. Quiet paved and dirt roads lined with small chapels. Forest trails and hayfields. Through the valley of the 3 streams/Asdonk with a ridge (trenches) and the Dassenaarde nature reserve. Past the Bolhuis organic farm. You’ll pass a pond and the De Schomme nature playground. A very pleasant walk.
automatic translation

reply • comments (0)

Sunday, June 7, 2026 by Sara Palsnice walk
automatic translation

reply • comments (0)