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Large car park in front of Dranouter church.
(S/E) Head towards Loker (Dikkebusstraat). Just after the restaurant ’t Folk, turn left into Victoriastraat to reach a T-junction. Marker 5. Take the path on the right towards number 69. You’ll pass a pigsty and reach number 69 at the edge of the woodland.
(1) Take the path on the left towards number 68 (gate). A very scenic path that follows the southern edge of the woodland. At number 68, continue to follow the southern edge towards number 66.
(2) At 66, you’ll find theGR®® path, which you follow to the right, still along the edge of the woodland. You’ll reach a gate (67).
(3) Just before the barrier, turn left. The path (GR®) is often in poor condition (muddy) at the start, but improves further on (if it is really very bad, you can carry on straight ahead to the road and follow it to the left to find the (4)). A specially constructed passage allows you to cross the barbed wire, then the path turns right and joins the road. Follow it for a few metres to the left until you reach a junction (56).
(4) Take the wide path on the right towards the 11 and reach a stream.
(5) You now have two options:
- Cross the stream and join a small road. Follow it to the right until you reach a junction. Then turn right to find the (6).
- Just before crossing the stream, turn right. The ‘path’ slopes to the left, crosses the stream, then turns left into the grass.
Stay along the edge of the fields until you reach a small road (a path marked by stakes, but often encroached upon by crops). Generally passable from October to May.
In August 2026, it is possible and preferable to turn right along the edge of the field. You will very quickly come across a wide, well-trodden path on the left leading straight towards a house. You’ll reach a small road opposite the house. Turn right and follow the small road. Just before a farm, you’ll find marker 8.
(6) Turn left onto the superb grassy path. It curves to the right, crosses a stream and climbs up to a T-junction (9). Turn left and follow the path (boardwalk in the wet sections). You’ll reach a wide track (café on the right).
Continue straight ahead (recently levelled embankment) towards marker 63. Walk alongside the fence (always stay at the edge of the pasture). Ignore a path branching off to the right (hiking marker) and carry on (still heading towards marker 63) until you reach a small road at marker 63.
(7) Follow the small road to the left towards 74. Just before a large house on the left, you’ll reach a signpost (unnumbered). Turn right towards 74. A lovely uphill path (steady gradient but tricky in wet weather) leads to the Mont Kemmel Ossuary (74, benches). At the junction, carry on straight ahead (the GR® heads off to the right) to enter the woods towards signpost 83. At signpost 83 (stairs on the right), carry on straight ahead to reach signpost 82.
(8) Before reaching the road, take the path leading down to the left to reach marker 81 near a road. Just before this road, take the track on the right towards marker 80 (staircase: see photo). Follow the arrows carefully (towards the playground) to reach a small road. Cross it and head into the woods. You’ll find a lovely path (grey bricks, visible in the photo on the signpost) which you follow to the right (the unnumbered section) until you come face to face with the tarmac road leading up to Kemmel.
(9) Turn left and, immediately at the junction, take the wide path opposite (GR®®). This is a very clear path in the middle of a pasture. A lovely flight of steps leads you down towards a restaurant. Walk past the children’s playground, then veer slightly to the left (picnic table) until you reach a gate. Cross the small road where you’ll see the numbers (72). Take the path opposite towards number 65. You’ll soon reach a large pasture on the left. There’s no longer a gate, but the path is very clearly visible.
(10) Cross the pasture diagonally until you reach a wide path.
Head off to the right. You’ll immediately come to a gate (on the left).
(11) Go through it and follow the path across the fields. Just before another gate, turn right and walk alongside a copse for about a hundred metres.
(12) At the end of the copse, turn right to pass two turnstiles.
Carry on towards a third turnstile and cross a copse. On emerging, continue along the edge on the right. The path turns sharply left and reaches a Fork in the road.
Turn right and go through a gate to join a wide path.
(13) Turn right, then immediately left. Take the first path on the right to walk alongside the vineyard plots. At the T-junction, turn right and join a wide path (picnic table).
Turn right. You’ll come back to the previous fork.
(13) Follow the track straight ahead, which eventually turns right to join a small road (65).
(14) Take the road straight ahead, pass a café and reach a three-way junction (64). Turn left onto the correct path towards the 59. Ignore a path on the right and reach the 59. Continue straight ahead, going through the gate (lots of horses grazing and a path reserved for horse riders on the right!). You’ll come to a small road.
(15) Follow it to the right towards Dranouter, which is clearly visible on the hilltop. After about a hundred metres, just before crossing the stream, turn left, then immediately right (gate) and follow the path that runs alongside the road to ’t Prinsenhof. Continue for a few metres along the road and, a little further on, turn left into the Baroenput. Pass a street on your right and look out for the footpath that branches off to the right shortly afterwards.
(16) Follow this path, which cuts through the estate, to a lovely playground before reaching the road. Follow the road to the left and you’ll arrive at the church. Turn left before the church to reach the car park (S/E).
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