Hiking in nature parks, the Lower Rhine region offers beautiful landscapes and natural sites that invite you to go hiking.
For example, you will find a wide variety of hiking trails in the nature reserves & nature parks and forests in the region of the Lower Rhine. For example, you can hike in the nature parks “Hohe Mark” and “Mass-Schwalm-Nette” as well as in the “Reichswald” on numerous marked trails through idyllic forests, river landscapes and past rivers and streams.
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Hiking in nature parks and nature reserves
Maas-Schwalm-Nette Nature Park is a region rich in nature and water, and is located between the Maas-Schwalm-Nette rivers in the districts of Viersen, Heinsberg, Kleve, and the city of Mönchengladbach and the province of Limburg in the Netherlands. In the nature park, which is characterized by river landscapes, wet meadows, swamp forests, moors and heathlands, you will find smaller, attractive nature reserves that you can experience up close via well-marked hiking trails.
Hohe Mark Nature Park , the western part of the nature park, the so-called Niederrheinische Sandplatte, is located in the Lower Rhine region and borders close to the cities of Dinslaken, Wesel and Hamminkeln. The entire nature park extends from west to east over a length of more than 50 kilometers, and offers you numerous hiking trails that lead you through a wonderful landscape of forests, meadows, heathland and wetlands. Several smaller nature reserves belong to the area.
Hiking in nature parks and nature reserves
Klever Reichswald , the Reichswald forms the largest contiguous forest area on the Lower Rhine, which can be explored via extensive hiking trails. If you keep your eyes open, you can discover birds such as the black woodpecker or animals such as squirrels and red deer as well as various plant species in the more than 5000 hectare nature reserve.
Natural Sites , no less worth seeing are the numerous natural sites on the Lower Rhine, some of which belong to nature parks.
This map shows natural sites and reserves in the region of the Lower Rhine. These offers different hiking paths.
Natural Sites
The region of the Lower Rhine offers a variety of opportunities to make leisure time entertaining, cultural or sporty.
