Thick Oak Walk

SP - 700 - 756 - 77 - 78 - 73 - 74 - 75 - 76 - 757 - 113 - 114 - 115 - 72 - 71 - 70 - 7 - 700

This hike takes you for a varied tour from downtown Bierbeek, through a beautiful hollow road into the Mollendaal forest. The Mollendaal forest has more than 1,000 thick oaks (more than 2.5 meters in circumference). You pass the oldest specimen in the Dikke Eikdreef. This monumental oak is more than 300 years old and has a trunk more than 5 meters in circumference. In the 1970s, the life of this giant hung by a thread, when during a storm one of its branches was torn off, seriously injuring the trunk. The tree survived and is currently more vital than ever. In the Walendreef you will pass two unique sculptures. Local artist Ad Wouters made the tree sculptures 'the whistler of little happiness' and 'the woodpecker' in the trunks of two dead oaks.

This walk is offered by Tourism Flemish Brabant.

TIP: In spring, the area around the thick oak tree is bathed in a beautiful white carpet of wood anemones.