The Pieterpad remains west of the Maas until Grubbenvorst. The river formed the landscape. After Vierlingsbeek the route follows the Molenbeek, a former Maas bed.After the hamlet of Holthees, the provincial border with Limburg is at Smakt. This is a well-known pilgrimage site around the Saint Joseph Chapel. The path then runs alongside the north-south railway line and bends into the nature of the Boschhuizerbergen with a large population of juniper berries. This reserve is adjacent to Landgoed Geysteren with a water mill and the Sint Willibrordus chapel. Then the path again follows an old Maas bed to Wanssum, a "harbor town" with container transhipment on the Maas.After this, villages string together from Meerlo along the Grote Molenbeek to Tienray. Through the forest you reach Swolgen, where peace prevails.