CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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A 185 km round trip from Uedem - roughly 3 h 15 in the saddle. The stops in between: Kleve-Reichswald | East, Elst-Grote Kerk, Tiel Inundation Canal and back through Elst-Grote Kerk. It crosses from Germany into Netherlands - carry ID and check the toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
Ice made this ridge. Hochwald 10 lies in a belt of low hills between Xanten, Uedem and Kalkar that the glaciers of the Saale ice age shoved up from the floor of the Rhine valley, a pile of sand and gravel pushed into a long arc that now stands a few dozen metres above the plain. That is not much, but on a landscape this flat it is enough to hold a forest and give the whole area a different character, with drier soil, pines, birches and oaks, and views that open suddenly where a clearing allows.
Read the complete Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 10 write-up.
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Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 10 is where the day begins. Next is Kleve-Reichswald | East.
South of Kleve, near the Dutch border, the Reichswald is one of the largest forests in the Lower Rhine region, a mix of oak, beech and pine on a low ridge of sand and gravel left behind by the glaciers of the Ice Age. On its edge, the Romans built military installations as part of the Lower German Limes, the frontier along the Rhine, and the remains in the Reichswald, including traces of camps, are part of the World Heritage site listed by UNESCO in 2021. There is little to see above ground, but the forest itself is a quiet, beautiful place to walk.
Read the complete Kleve-Reichswald | East write-up.
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Kleve-Reichswald | East comes up about 25 km into the recorded legs. Next is Elst-Grote Kerk.
Elst is a commuter town in the Betuwe, the flat river island between the Rhine and the Waal, halfway between Arnhem and Nijmegen. At first glance there is nothing remarkable about its big brick church on the market square. The surprise lies underneath it. Excavations in the twentieth century found the remains of two Roman temples beneath the floor, built one after another on the same spot, dedicated to a local god adopted into the Roman world. The site belongs to the Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Lower German Limes, inscribed by UNESCO in 2021, and the foundations can be seen in the church cellar when it is open.
Read the complete Elst-Grote Kerk write-up.
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about 55 km into the recorded legs you reach Elst-Grote Kerk. Next is Tiel Inundation Canal.
Tiel is a river town on the Waal, the main branch of the Rhine in the Netherlands, in the middle of the Betuwe, a region of orchards, dykes and meadows between the Waal and the Lower Rhine. Just outside the town, a wide, straight channel runs through the fields, crossed by bridges and lined by dykes. This is the Tiel inundation canal, built in the late nineteenth century as part of the New Dutch Waterline, the defensive system of controlled flooding that protected the heart of Holland, and it is now part of the UNESCO-listed Dutch Water Defence Lines.
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Tiel Inundation Canal, about halfway. Next is back through Elst-Grote Kerk.
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Read the complete Elst-Grote Kerk write-up.
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back through Elst-Grote Kerk sits at 134 km, about halfway. Next is back through Kleve-Reichswald | East.
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Read the complete Kleve-Reichswald | East write-up.
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back through Kleve-Reichswald | East comes up about 161 km into the recorded legs. Next is Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 10.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 10 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 10 closes the day.
Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 10 → Kleve-Reichswald | East is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kleve-Reichswald | East → Elst-Grote Kerk is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Elst-Grote Kerk → Tiel Inundation Canal is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tiel Inundation Canal → back through Elst-Grote Kerk is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Elst-Grote Kerk → back through Kleve-Reichswald | East is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Kleve-Reichswald | East → Uedem-Hochwald | Hochwald 10 is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.