The Laarbeek trail - Stage 4 (of 5)

Directions

Reference is made to route posts at various points. The entries are intended only as additional landmarks.

1.
At the main road through the village with your back to ‘Oranjeplein’ leave RA, follow the road until road “Veghelsedijk” towards ‘Zijtaart’ on your right at the edge of the built-up area, ignore other side roads.
At this road RD, a little further RA, follow the cycle path to a small bridge.
Immediately after the bridge LA, note the path is a footpath but also part of a ATB route, the unpaved path bends to the right, follow the path further until a bend to the left of the ATB route.
In this bend keep to the right, the ATB route is left, a little further at the T-junction LA, wide path with separate gravel/cycle path and on the right some play equipment and picnic tables.
At junction with main road RD, wn route, Torrenven, follow the clinker road with further on kn99 follow 92 and change into a wide unpaved path until a junction past the fenced area on the left of ‘Rotterdam Rijn Pijpleidingen’.

2.
At this junction RA, kn92 follow 20, red (white signs with red triangle) route, follow the path with a metal barrier tree and sign ‘Opened’ approx 140m to a narrow path on the left with red and wn route posts and four small posts, ignore other (ATB) side paths.
At this path LA, narrow winding forest path, wn20 and red route.
At T-junction LA, red route, the wn route is abandoned, path with fence on right hand side, then after approx. 40 RA through a folding gate, red route.
Before a low wooden fence, at T-junction LA, red route, then after approx. 30m RA, narrow path with the oblong Torreven on the left, red route.
Just before a bench on the left sharply RA, the red route is abandoned, the path bends to the left with a little further a low wooden fence on the right.

3.
At junction RA, follow path with low wooden fencing on both sides and the large Vossenbergven on the left to a path on the left before a swing gate with a spring grid.
# The Vossenbergven was drained in the 1950s. The fen was restored in 2019.
At this path LA, path with the fen on your left, past the fen through a swing gate, follow the path further to T-junction at the edge of the forest, ignore narrow ATB paths.
At this T-junction RA, follow the path with the forest edge on the right to a 4-junction with a bench and a metal barrier on the right.
At this 4-junction keep left, path with the forest edge on your right, then at junction with a main road RD, unpaved path with the forest edge on your right.
At T-junction RA, follow the cycle path, immediately afterwards LA cross the main road, follow the unpaved path with separate footpath and metal barrier until a junction with a narrow path, ignore side paths on the left.

4.
At this junction RA.
After approx. 140m, near a blue (white sign with blue triangle) signpost LA.
At the T-junction RA, follow the path with an agricultural parcel on your left until you reach a T-junction past a metal barrier and a wide watercourse, ignore side paths.
At this T-junction LA, follow the wide path with a watercourse and an agricultural parcel on the left to a path on the left with a wooden footbridge and a bench about 200m past the agricultural parcel.
At this path LA, immediately afterwards past the watercourse, at the T-junction LA, blue and wn route, a little further the narrow path bends to the right into the forest, slightly past this bend the path bends to the left and continues in a meandering way, continue to a T-junction with a blue route marker on the left.
At the T-junction RA, leave the blue route again, a little further follow the path with a curve to the left, grassy narrow path.
At crossroads RA, wide path with separate footpath.
Past a metal barrier and a wide watercourse, at T-junction with a grassy field with club building of PHC De Heidehond on the opposite side, LA, wide path.

5.
After approx. 70m RA, narrow forest path with sign ‘Open’.
At the end of the narrow path, at a 4-intersection with a blue signpost on the left RA, a little further on near the grass field with clubhouse on the right RD, ignore the footpath with separate path on the left.
Just before a metal barrier at the edge of the forest, at a crossroads turn right (LA), also a narrow forest path.
At 4-junction with a metal barrier on the right RD, blue route.
At 4 intersections with an ATB path on the left RA towards the metal barrier, blue route, past the barrier, at T-junction LA, blue route, follow the wide sandy path to the hardened road.
# At the road a short distance straight ahead, the little chapel Sint Antonius stands on the right. Around 1910, the landowner of a nearby field promised to build a small chapel if his daughter was rescued from the Mortelven swamp. The daughter was saved after which the landowner had the promised chapel built. Later, the chapel fell into disrepair after which the current chapel was built near the disrepair.
At the paved road LA, blue route, follow the road to road ‘Schaapsdijk 2-4-6’ on the right.
At this road RD, ignore the road on the right, a little further LA, unpaved path with a metal barrier, blue route, past the barrier at junction with narrow ATB path RD.

6.
After approx. 140m, at crossroads RA, the blue route is abandoned, follow the narrow forest path to a T-junction past a metal barrier at the forest edge.
At this T-junction RA, follow the path along the forest edge to a T-junction by a paved road.
At this T-junction LA, follow the paved road to a road on the right before the farm on the right, ignore the road on the left.
At this road RA, kn10 volg 15, ‘Schaapsdijk’, further on before a forest parcel the road bends to the right and becomes a dirt track, wn route.
Follow the path with a bend to the left, wn route, ignore the wooden footbridge on the right, follow the path further to a T-junction at a hardened road, ignore side paths.

7.
At this T-junction LA, kn15 follow 14, paved road.
Just before the forest edge, before a watercourse RA along a metal barrier, the wn route is left, grass/maintenance path with watercourse on left hand side.
Past the 2nd weir, keep right at 3 junction, at this weir the watercourse goes under the Zuid-Willemsvaart canal.
Before the canal, keep right at Y-junction, follow the path with the canal on your left until a 3-junction at a paved road, ignore the path towards a house on your right.
At this 3-spot keep left, paved road with the canal on your left.
Past brook the Goorloop on the right RA, kn71 follow 72, follow the path with the brook on the right until wooden fencing on the left around a nature reserve approx 70m past a concrete bridge on the right.

8.
Past a wooden gate in the fence, keep left towards houses, narrow path with the fence on your left, the wn route is abandoned.
At T-junction LA, follow the fence further on the left, past the fence the path passes between a hedge and a wooden fence, at the end of the path past a metal pedestrian lock follow the paved road De Wingerd RD until it changes into a footpath/cycle path through a public garden past house no.26 on the left.
In the public garden, at the crossroads RD, continue to follow the foot/cycle path through the public garden, then at the end of the path, at 4-junction LA, the road bends slightly further to the right.
RD, ‘Rietkampen’, road "Brug. Seelenlaan" on the right, immediately after past house no.36 on the left, turn into an unpaved footpath.
A little after this transition follow the path with a bend to the right, ignore a small path on the left, then after approx. 40m RD, ignore the path on the right, a little further at 3-spoke RA, follow the path to a hardened road.

9.
At the road LA, immediately afterwards at T-junction RA, follow the road Pater de Leeuwstraat with canal on your left until road Rogier Monicxlaan on your right past house no.23, ignore other side roads.
At this road RA, ‘Rogier Monicxlaan’, a little further the road bends to the left.
Keep left at 3-spot, ‘Rogier Monicxlaan’, the road bends to the right.
Approx. 60m past this bend, past house no.35 on the left, at 4-junction LA.
At T-junction LA, road with the former church on the right.
Near house no. 8 RA, ‘Brouwersstraat’, follow the road to ‘Piet van Thielplein’ on the left, ignore side roads.
LA onto the square, the end point, across the square are bus stops on the left.

Legend:
RA = turn right, RD = straight on and LA = turn left
Walking networks:
Green/yellow markings, kn represents a junction post with numbered direction, wn represents a network route post with direction only.