LtD Gravelfest 2020 - Schinnen, Zuid-Limburg

Gravel Fest Headquarters! Start- en finish, festival, food trucks, fire place, pop up camping... in and around this old 'hoeve'. The farm is built around a square where the Gravel Fest market is held. Behind the hoeve, on a small island, you will find the ruins of the ancient Castle Terborgh.

LtD Gravel Fest will literally go straight through the Shimano Experience Center. The ideal spot to start your cycling adventures in Limburg. You can have a coffee and the renowned vlaai, have a look at all the latest Shimano gear (cycling, rowing and fishing). A great site for events, a weekend with family and cycling friends or a day out.

The most famous mountain of The Netherlands (it's more of a hill actually, but due to lack of real mountains - you remember Nether... lands - the Dutch call this a mountain). This is the surprising climb from the Shimano Experience Center side. When you have tackled the nasty steep last bit you discover... 'Aah, this is where I at'... it's the former finish line of the Amstel Gold Race on top of the Cauberg tarmac climb.

Grinding gravel and your teeth here. This is a real 'kuitenbijter' where you have to dig in deep!

You feel like a real cyclo crosser here. Bike up your shoulder and hike the stairs. It's a pretty long climb so you will feel this one also.

Mother Meuse (Maas) is always at your side here. Great dirt road and gravel bit where you can try a break away from your friends. Hope the wind is blowing in your favour.

Do not use the easy part (the so called 'gootje'). Pretty steep climb with magic cobblestones. So we add a pinch of Flanders in the middle of beautiful Limburg. You have got to love that.

Down in the dumps? Well actually 'yes', you are descending an old dumpster. No worries, you will not notice it, because it's been used as a land fill.

You can smell the Traeger Grill and the freshly baked bread of Bischopsmolen here. You are almost at the rest stop of LtD Gravel Fest where you can enjoy your extensive and great lunch BBQ buffet.

In the darker ages this used to be a gallow field of the Bokkerijders. Creepy? Just go full gas downhill so the grim reaper will not get you ;-).

No know reference to Limburgs own Tom Dumoulin, but you do have a great view into Germany.