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Germany

North Rhine-Westphalia

Städteregion Aachen

Monschau

Beautiful section of the trail – Hautes Fagnes Boardwalks loop from Oberes Rurtal mit den Felsbildungen der Ehrensteinsley

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Hiking trails & Routes

Germany

North Rhine-Westphalia

Städteregion Aachen

Monschau

Beautiful section of the trail – Hautes Fagnes Boardwalks loop from Oberes Rurtal mit den Felsbildungen der Ehrensteinsley

Hard

4.3

(12)

hikers

Beautiful section of the trail – Hautes Fagnes Boardwalks loop from Oberes Rurtal mit den Felsbildungen der Ehrensteinsley

07:49

28.6km

440m

Hiking

Hard hike. Very 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: May 7, 2026

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Naturpark Hohes Venn-Eifel

Parc naturel des Hautes-Fagnes – Eifel

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7.48 km

Grand Bongard

Forest

8.15 km

Beautiful section of the trail

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The partly narrow path leads along the Vennbachs Hill near the shore. Beautiful photo perspectives open up again and again. There are also wooden walkways in some places.

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8.80 km

Hill (Helle) Riverside Trail

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One of the most beautiful sections of path along the Hill and in general in the Walloon Fens. Pure nature trails in a beautiful landscape. Here you can observe how the Hill slowly grows into a Vennbach due to the tributaries of the Venn.

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11.5 km

Wooden Boardwalks in Hautes Fagnes

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12.2 km

Hohes Venn Boardwalks and Dead Trees

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The Hautes Fagnes offer a very unique and magnificent setting. Wooden walkways are ubiquitous, and distant views help make this landscape fascinating.

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12.9 km

Wooden boardwalks through the High Fens

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Purely geologically, the High Fens is neither part of the Northern Eifel nor the Ardennes, even if both are said again and again. It forms the core of a large, vault-like arch with the oldest layers. Geologists have coined the term “Stavelot massif” for the area.

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13.9 km

Hautes Fagnes Boardwalks

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The core of the High Fens area is a southwest to northeast running mountain ridge of old slate from the Cambrian and Lower Devonian. The first raised bogs formed on the poor, poorly permeable soil 10,000 years ago. These owe their origin partly to the enormous amounts of rainfall. The High Fens consist of low moor, transitional bog and small areas of raised bog. Source and more about the High Fens and Eifel at eifelnatur.de/Niederl%E4ndisch/Seiten/Hoge%20Venen%20inleiding.html

Here you are more specifically in the Walloon Fens, not very far from the lookout point at the entrance of the nature reserve from the Signal de Botrange, see komoot.com/nl-nl/highlight/127800

If you walk north from here, after a while you will come to the first boardwalks next to a forest and through open landscape. If you then turn right a bit further at the intersection with another boardwalk, you can walk to the sources of the Helle river (and follow it as it quickly becomes larger) or walk to the beautiful Noir Flohay. If you go left at the sign, you will end up at the Baraque Michel. Of course, many other combinations are possible. You can see them on Komoot and in the car parks of both the Baraque Michel and the Signal de Botrange.

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