Around the Large and Small Shooting Field

Appointment in Maria-ter-Heide at the church on the Bredabaan. With the church on your right you cycle into the Kerkedreef. Where the street turns to the left, you cycle straight between poles. At the first intersection you come to KP 37. Follow the Durentijdlei to the left, direction KP 68, on the cycle path that was built on the middle strip of this wide slate between saplings. Left and right cobblestone strips with impressive villas behind them. Ignore all side roads and continue cycling to the T-junction. Cross the Sint-Jobsesteenweg and follow the cycle path to the left until you reach the roundabout.

Turn right, direction Brecht. You cycle on a cycle path that is separated from the roadway by trees and a grass strip. On the left is the Groot Schietveld Je bolt along the nameplate of Brecht and Nottebohm with medical center and Kasteelop2 restaurant. Continue cycling through the open landscape until you can turn right into Brasschaatbaan nos. 4 to 10 in a gentle right. At the first fork, keep left and continue cycling until KP 68. Turn left, direction KP 80. Turn right into the first street and turn left in front of D'Oude Pastoryhoeve. Continue cycling between fields and meadows until you reach a priority road with the Sacred Heart Chapel of Overbroek with a stepped gable on the right on the corner. On the other side, follow the Overbroekstraat past the Cappelleveldhoeve and between the meadows until the end. Right.

You cycle between the Koeyblokhoeve and the Kempenhoeve and along the Beienhoeve to the crossroads with Café De Witte. Turn left into Schoordijkweg. Just before a farm with a chapel on the stable wall, turn right into the Hoekstraat. Follow this winding concrete road without worrying anything from side roads to the fork at the Klein Heiken farm. Left. You bolt past the Schepersdijk farm and where the road becomes unpaved, turn right. Cycle further between the meadows and just after farm De Steenpaal you will arrive at KP 80.

Carefully cross the Wuustwezelsteenweg and continue cycling through the Papbosstraat. Turn left with the asphalt road and then take the first road on the right. Don't worry about side roads and cycle past an impressive tree nursery. At the end of the Papbosstraat turn left until the next cross road with a dead end on the left. Turn right up to the wall' of the TGV line. Turn left, parallel to the railway until you come to the Loenhout-Brecht road with a nod. On the right you see the bridge over the railway and the E19. Cross the road and cycle left on the cycle path, direction Loenhout. Don't worry about side roads and drive between fields, meadows, the trees of tree nursery Solitair and along the nameplate of Loenhout to KP 96.

Turn left into Stapelheideweg, direction KP 93. Where it goes straight on unpaved, take the Zandweg on the right. You will pass a tree nursery again and then continue cycling to the T. Turn right, past rauwvennen farm and a square with a glass container and a rest bench. Straight on, past stoopshof farm. You now cycle on a wider concrete road past farm De Neervenne and a tree nursery until you can turn left into the Schotteweg. Where it goes straight ahead, turn right. At the end of this road you will come next to a company for solar energy, aluminum and glass works on the N144. Follow it to the left and turn further into the Donkweg.
It continues between meadows and past greenhouses to the quadrangle with KP 93. Continue straight ahead, direction KP 02. At the next fork you come again to FP 93, which is therefore indicated twice. Continue towards KP 02. You arrive at the N1, cross it and follow the Lage Weidenstraat to the end. Turn right and immediately after left next, next to a picnic area. You now follow Veldvoort and cycle past a tree nursery again.

Ignore Steertheuvel on the left and then turn right onto the first road. At the end turn left and at the fork with the brick chapel, diagonally left. You now bolt along a cycle path next to a narrow concrete road and follow Hoofdbaan Watering. At the first two intersections you cycle straight ahead. Then you cycle through a forest and on the quadruple jump afterwards you continue pedaling straight through an open landscape with impressive views.

On KP 02, continue straight ahead on Hoofdbaan Watering, direction KP 04. Ignore the Moervenweg on the right and turn left at the next crossroads into the Rietvenweg. Immediately afterwards you take the Bruynleegtweg on the right and cycle with a large arch to the edge of the forest. Cycle between poles into the forest. When you get out, you ride between poles again and cycle with a left-right nod into the Eglantierdreef. On KP 04, turn right towards KP 07. Cross an intersection and turn left on the T.

At the end turn right until watchtower De Klot. From the 7 meter high tower you have a beautiful view of nature reserve De Maatjes and the open landscape. The tower is located 200 meters from border post 232 and near a three-municipality point. You have a view of Nieuwmoer, Wuustwezel and the Dutch Achtmaal (Zundert). In the tower you will find information about peat extraction and next to it you will see a reconstruction of the 'death wire' from WWI. Do not cycle further to KP 07, but back in the direction from where you came. Ignore the road on the left, where you just came from, cross an intersection and continue cycling to the edge of the forest. You are back in the Eglantierdreef. Turn right, direction KP 05. After the forest, follow the drive between the fields to the N133. Follow the cycle path to the left and turn a little further into the Zuymoerenweg, a beautiful drive between fields and past an arborist. Ignore a side road on the left and continue cycling until you reach the N111. Cross it and cycle next to the farm from 1906 into Ettingen and continue your way to KP 05.

Turn right, direction KP 71. Ignore stone oven on the left. Here FP 05 is again indicated. You cycle along the Weikanthoeve, the Loovershoeve and Oosthoeksken and further between fields and meadows, without caring about side roads. After the agglomeration board of Achterbroek you come to a T-junction. Turn right, direction Kalmthout for cyclists. Then turn left into Dr. J. Goossenaertsstraat and at the end turn right. Opposite Aveve Plus, turn left into Kruisbos, a path for cyclists and pedestrians. Diagonally to the left you see the church tower of Kalmthout. On KP 71 turn left towards KP 72. You pass greenhouses and turn right on the T and immediately after left onto the Foxemaatdijk. A beautiful drive with limited traffic between two canals.

At the fork, choose right and follow Den Akkerweg through the open landscape. From farm Den Boogerd the way back is passable for everyone. Past IJsboerderij 't Akkerhof and after the agglomeration sign of Kalmthout you reach KP 72. Continue straight ahead, direction KP 27, on a path for cyclists until you reach Beauvoislaan. Turn right, past the Provincial Suske and Wiske Children's Museum and then left into the Mastendreef. Turn right on the T. You cycle along the Klein Schietveld until you end up between poles on a narrow asphalt road. Follow it to the left. At the end of the Rodeweg turn right and immediately after left into the Esdoornlaan. Follow them between more than spacious villas until KP 27. Turn left, direction KP 38 and right into Kolibriedreef. Where it turns to the right, you cycle straight into the military domain. You come to a wide concrete road and follow it to the left. On the right, behind a fence, you see military buildings. At the end of the concrete road, turn right through the forest and continue past the airport of the former Light Aviation of Brasschaat. Right Perron Noord, where you are welcome for a drink.

Continue cycling past the control tower, the Gunfire Museum and the baseball field of the Brasschaat Braves. Where it turns right before KP 38, you cycle straight ahead into the Ploegsebaan. When you come out of the forest, turn left just before the anti-tank channel into the Garçondreef and cycle towards KP 37. After a meadow, turn right and cycle between poles into the Eikendreef. Follow it to Bredabaan. Turn left until you reach the departure point.