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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. Post 5. Take the path on the right towards number 69. You pass a pigsty and reach number 69 at the edge of the woods.
(1) Take the path on the left towards number 68 (gate). A very beautiful 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®® which you follow to the right, still along the edge. 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 poor, you can continue straight on to the road and follow it to the left to reach the point (4)). A designated crossing allows you to get over the barbed wire, then the path turns right and joins the road. Follow it for a few metres to the left and 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 point (6).
- Difficult passage on 11 April 2026, as the two fields have just been ploughed: Justbefore 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 and join a small track (marked by posts, but often encroached upon by crops). Generally passable from October to May.
In August 2025, it is possible to turn right along the edge of the field. You will soon come to a wide, well-trodden path on the left leading straight towards a house. You reach a small road opposite the house. Turn right and follow the small road. Just before a farm, look for marker 8. Turn right and follow the small road. Just before a farm, you will find marker 8.
(6) Point 8. Take the superb grassy path on the left. It turns 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 path (café on the right).
Continue straight ahead (recently graded embankment) towards marker 63. Follow the fence (always stay at the edge of the pasture). Ignore a path branching off to the right (hiking marker) and continue (still 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 reach a signpost (unnumbered). Turn right towards 74. A lovely uphill path (steady gradient but difficult in wet weather) leads to the Mont Kemmel Ossuary (74, benches). At the junction, continue straight ahead (the GR® heads off to the right) to enter the woods towards 83. At 83 (staircase on the right), continue straight on to reach 82.
(8) Before reaching the road, take the path leading down to the left to reach signpost 81 near a road. Just before this road, take the path on the right towards signpost 80 (staircase: see photo). Follow the arrows carefully (towards the play area) to reach a small road. Cross it and enter the woods. You will find a lovely path (grey bricks, visible in the photo on the totem) which you follow to the right (unnumbered section) until you come to the paved road leading up to Kemmel.
(9) Turn left and immediately, at the junction, take the wide path opposite (GR®®). A very clear path in the middle of a pasture. A lovely flight of steps leads you down to a restaurant. Walk past the children’s play area, then veer slightly left (picnic table) and reach a gate. Cross the small road where you’ll find 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 clearly visible.
(10) Cross the pasture diagonally and 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.
Continue towards a third turnstile and cross a copse. At the exit, continue along the edge on the right. The path turns sharply left and reaches a fork.
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. Return to the previous fork.
(13) Follow the path straight ahead, which eventually turns right to reach a small road (65).
(14) Take the road straight ahead, pass a café and reach a three-way junction (64). Take the correct path on the left towards 59. Ignore a path on the right and reach 59. Continue straight on, passing through the gate (lots of horses grazing and a path reserved for horse riders on the right!). You’ll reach a small road.
(15) Follow it to the right towards Dranouter, clearly visible on the hill. 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 a few metres along the road and, a little further on, turn left into the Baroenput. Pass a street on the right and look out for the path that branches off to the right shortly afterwards.
(16) Follow this path through the estate to a lovely playground before reaching the road. Follow it 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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