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Leudal Heath – De Busjop Forest Café loop from Leudal

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Hiking trails & Routes

Netherlands

Limburg

Heythuysen

Leudal Heath – De Busjop Forest Café loop from Leudal

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4.5

(38)

164

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Leudal Heath – De Busjop Forest Café loop from Leudal

01:16

5.05km

10m

Hiking

Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: April 16, 2026

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56 m

Forest Path near Boscafé de Usjop

Highlight • Trail

Beautiful narrow forest path. Dogs must be kept on a leash.

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334 m

Busjop Burial Mounds

Highlight • Historical Site

3,000 years ago, the ashes of the dead were buried after cremation at the Busjop Burial Field. The ashes were then placed in an urn or cloth, and the whole area was covered with a low mound of sods.

Each individual received his or her own burial monument. By repeatedly creating a new mound near another, a vast burial or urn field was created. Over the course of five centuries, a "death landscape" of more than fifty burial mounds developed here.

In 1951, the burial field was partially investigated, after which the urns and cremated remains ended up in the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden. Due to the growth of trees and brambles, the mounds disappeared from view for a long time and fell into oblivion. In 2010-2011, the Dutch Forestry Commission, in collaboration with the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands, cleared the forest, creating an open landscape. This ultimately led to the rediscovery and restoration of seventeen burial mounds.

Source: visitnoordlimburg.nl/nl/grafveld-busjop

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1.04 km

Bench With a View of the Fields

Highlight • Viewpoint

This year the view of the fields was taken up by a sea of mature corn plants.

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2.59 km

Leudal Heath

Highlight • Natural

An idyllic spot with a pond surrounded by small birch trees in the middle of the heathland. Here and there benches invite you to take a break.

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3.07 km

Owl Tower Haelen

Highlight • Monument

I wouldn't have visited the tower if it weren't for the remarkable person who built it and his remarkable life story, in which he was fascinated by the theory of evolution and succeeded in finding the missing link between man and ape. A fascinating man, a fascinating place, a truly fascinating structure, and a beautiful woodland setting. For the information board, you might need to crawl under a rhododendron (or at least duck down) because it's becoming increasingly obscured.

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3.61 km