Gravel Bike Path – Torendreef loop from Oud-Turnhout

Gravel Bike Path – Torendreef loop from Oud-Turnhout

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Gravel Bike Path – Torendreef loop from Oud-Turnhout

05:30

98.0km

140m

Gravel riding

Hard gravel ride. Very good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels.

Last updated: October 1, 2026

Tips

Includes a segment in which cycling is not permitted

After 95.5 km for 56 m

Waypoints

Start point

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3.06 km

Restanten oude spoorbrug

Ruins

15.6 km

Kievitsheide

Forest

22.7 km

Gravel Bike Path

Highlight • Cycleway

wonderful strips for the gravel bike, but beware of busy times with walkers

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22.8 km

Ossenweg Gravel Path

Highlight • Cycleway

Nice quiet crossing from Blakheide to Merksplas colony.

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24.3 km

Landlopers Chapel Merksplas-Kolonie

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The monumental space of the former prison chapel of Merksplas colony has been used as an event location for a number of years.
The Chapel of Merksplas Colony is a …

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37.8 km

Torendreef

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Imposing avenues give structure to the Colony. The domain of almost 600 hectares is laid out as a checkerboard of beautiful rectangular (almost square) plots. Stately avenues with trees more …

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38.2 km

Bootjesven Gravel Trail

Highlight (Segment) • Trail

The gravel strip is more of a sandy path that is difficult and in some places impossible to cycle through.

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40.9 km

Wortel-Kolonie

Highlight • Historical Site

A historic location where vagrants have made a living in the past. Now an ideal base for exploring the surrounding area by bike or simply walking through the landscape.

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42.1 km

Wortel Prison

Highlight • Historical Site

Until 1993, Wortel prison was a vagrant colony. With the abolition of the vagrancy law, the penal institution was used to house convicts. The buildings were converted, better secured and renovated.

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51.4 km

Graafsbos

Forest

69.0 km

Marckstraat — gravel road with views of the Turnhout Marshes

Highlight • Cycleway

Fantastic (rust-colored) gravel strip with a view of the Turnhouts Vennen area. Photogenic desolate tree. It is part of the Strada Campina, the gravel ride that combines the best of the Kempen.

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98.0 km

End point

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

46.5 km

27.8 km

10.3 km

9.01 km

4.46 km

< 100 m

Surfaces

25.6 km

23.5 km

21.8 km

18.1 km

8.58 km

387 m

Elevation

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Weather

Wednesday 21 October

14°C

7°C

78 %

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Max wind speed: 29.0 km/h

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Comments

November 10, 2024,Dirty Splasher Gravel

Dirty Splasher. Super cool event, around the Belgian Merkersplas and wide area. Top route! Top organization. Very atmospheric. Lovely long wide and very good to ride hardpack gravel roads and forest roads. No annoying mtb tracks or roots and certainly not too much asphalt in the entire route. I will definitely come back to cycle the 90 or 120 km …

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