The best MTB trails around Bree

Very nice forest chapel to rest for a while

Near Orshof (the Neerglabbeek section of Oudsbergen), a network of old paths and tracks runs through the dunes, heathland, and forests of the Dune Belt, including sections sometimes locally referred to as cart tracks. These cart tracks are not modern roads but historical unpaved tracks once used by horse-drawn carts and other vehicles to travel through the landscape, often before the construction of official paved roads. A cart track is a unique landscape element that develops in sandy and agricultural areas when frequent cart use creates incisions in the loose soil. As a result, two parallel tracks, often about a meter apart, remain visible in the ground from the cart wheels. These tracks reveal ancient traffic and trade routes and how people used to move through the landscape before modern infrastructure existed. In the Dune Belt and surrounding Kempen countryside, you can walk on various unpaved paths that have developed this character from historical customs and the natural development of paths over sandy soil. Orshof itself lies on the edge of the Solterheide area within the Dune Belt, an important part of the Hoge Kempen National Park, and a unique landscape of heathland, forests, sand dunes, and valleys. A large number of signposted hiking, cycling, and horseback riding trails, which run along unpaved paths, start from Orshof. Many of these trails use old rural cart tracks and field roads from earlier times, paths created by farm traffic between villages and used by horse riders, traders, and residents of the Kempen region. These tracks are now part of the recreational route and trail network that you can follow as a hiker, cyclist, or horseback rider.

Nice trail, definitely do it

A really nice place for a legal overnight stay in the forest.

This campsite is located in Opitter, Belgium, in the Solterheide forest area. Surrounded by coniferous forest and by fields on one side, the site is relatively easy to reach as it is close to a service road. The Itter campsite is very well equipped and offers, in addition to a tent platform with a shelter, a picnic bench, a composting toilet, and a water pump. Although the water pump does not officially provide drinking water, it works well and we had no issues drinking the previously filtered water. For hammock sleepers, there are two spots with two posts each for hanging a hammock. During our visit, the site was unfortunately a bit "run down" - the table was scorched, the toilet dirty, and the platform wood somewhat mossy. Furthermore, it is located directly on a riding or hiking trail and thus not as hidden as, for example, the campsites on the Soonwaldsteig. However, this is "complaining at a high level" for this welcome offer, which is also free.

A somewhat larger bike park with various trails and degrees of difficulty, some technical obstacles, jumps, rollers, stairs, drops and more. Free access! Free parking is available at the 'Eendracht' hall on the Leverenweg in Neeroeteren.

Sluice with lifting bridge, rest area in the immediate vicinity.

Impressive bridge with wooden decking. Even open to traffic.