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Tønder

View of the Wadden Sea – Lock loop from Emmerlev Klev

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Denmark

Southern Denmark

Tønder

View of the Wadden Sea – Lock loop from Emmerlev Klev

Moderate

4.7

(59)

205

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View of the Wadden Sea – Lock loop from Emmerlev Klev

02:29

9.85km

10m

Hiking

Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: August 7, 2026

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Your route passes through a protected area

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Nationalpark Vadehavet

Waypoints

Start point

Parking

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31 m

View of the Wadden Sea

Highlight • Viewpoint

Pause bench just behind the German/Danish border. Nice view of the Wadden Sea. The break bench is located directly at a campsite with an adjacent hotel.

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2.88 km

Public Restrooms at Vadehavet National Park

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Spacious public toilet. I noticed a slightly strong smell when I opened the door, but otherwise it was clean.

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2.92 km

Vidå Lock

Highlight • Structure

Vidå Sluse or Vidåslusen (German Wiedau lock) is a drainage sluice (sluice) near the Danish town of Højer on a North Sea dike in the Wadden Sea. This dike acts …

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3.80 km

Rustic Trail in Wadden Sea National Park

Highlight • Trail

A beautiful section of the Marskstien Trail. The 54-km-long Marskstien Trail opened in 2019 and takes you through the previously undeveloped marshland of Tønder (Tøndermarsk). Hundreds of thousands of wading birds and migratory birds visit the region every year.

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4.44 km

Højer Lock

Highlight • Structure

Entering the Tønder marshland, when collecting the starlings in spring/autumn, good prospects of seeing the "Black Sun" here.

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6.01 km

Lock

Highlight • Structure

6.38 km

Højer Mill

Highlight • Monument

Højer Mill, dating from 1857, is both a museum and a well-preserved cultural environment on the edge of the marshland – a fantastic cultural landscape where the struggle against water …

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9.59 km

Sheep on the Dike

Highlight • Natural

9.85 km

End point

Parking

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

6.42 km

1.66 km

1.53 km

157 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

3.76 km

3.29 km

1.51 km

998 m

249 m

< 100 m

Elevation

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Weather

Thursday 20 August

19°C

13°C

20 %

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Comments

August 15, 2022,2022_08_15 Højer

Small hike from and around Højer (Eng. Hoyer).
Start was at the church. We only looked at the mill from the outside and walked on quiet paths to the lock. Here you can watch the bird life from a small observation tower with a high-quality telescope (free of charge) and/or look to Sylt and the other islands.
There wasn't much …

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September 23, 2025,Marskstien - Roter Rundwanderweg ab Højer Mølle | Wandern in Südjütland 🇩🇰

Hey again from a completely new corner of Denmark for me! Sønderjylland – the southern part of the Danish Jutland peninsula – borders directly on Germany and offers some lovely hiking opportunities between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. My first tour here takes me on part of the 54-kilometer-long Marskstien (marsh path hiking trail) through the Tøndermarsken, Denmark's …

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