Hiking route
GR 561 Kempen - Maaspad
222.8 km· ↗ 695 m· dirt· waymarked· National route
Passes through: Belgium 167 km (Limburg, Antwerp) · Netherlands 51 km (North Brabant, Limburg)
The trail is in Limburg. A 223 km point-to-point route: the finish is not where you started. Total ascent is about 695 m. Elevations along the way range from 18 to 130 m. The trail is waymarked on the ground.
This description is assembled from OpenStreetMap data and our own terrain calculation.
Surface
- dirt — 50.4 km (22%)
- asphalt — 48.4 km (22%)
- sand — 46.6 km (21%)
- gravel — 42.9 km (19%)
- grass — 11.7 km (5%)
- concrete — 7.2 km (3%)
- paving stones — 6.1 km (3%)
- boardwalk — 1.1 km (1%)
- other — 1.2 km (1%)
- not recorded — 8.6 km (4%)
Surface data comes from OpenStreetMap tags on the route's ways.
Who is allowed
- MTB difficulty: S1
The OpenStreetMap mtb:scale, where 0 is an easy path and 6 is barely rideable. The route shows its HARDEST section.
Trail geometry and data come from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL). Check them on the ground: waymarking can go out of date.