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Sherman tank at Utah Beach – Utah Beach Museum loop from Hameau Mottet

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Saint-Martin-De-Varreville

Sherman tank at Utah Beach – Utah Beach Museum loop from Hameau Mottet

Moderate

4.6

(9)

67

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Sherman tank at Utah Beach – Utah Beach Museum loop from Hameau Mottet

02:37

10.4km

10m

Hiking

Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: August 5, 2026

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Your route passes through protected areas

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Parc naturel régional des Marais du Cotentin et du Bessin

Basses Vallées du Cotentin et Baie des Veys

Waypoints

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Parking

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2.30 km

Beach

Beach

2

3.67 km

Utah Beach

Highlight • Beach

The tranquility of this beach makes it difficult to imagine the events of June 1944. The armored vehicles and soldiers of that time have made way for oyster beds, birds and walkers.

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4.40 km

Illustrates only too well how short-lived such a moment can be

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4.42 km

Sherman tank at Utah Beach

Highlight • Monument

One of the beaches where the US Army landed in 1944.

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4.42 km

Utah Beach Museum

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Utah Beach is one of the five beaches of the Normandy landings of June 6, 1944. In comparison to Omaha Beach which was catastrophic on a human level and which …

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4.54 km

Km 00 Liberty Road

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The Freedom Route is a historic route which commemorates the Liberation of France but also that of Belgium and Luxembourg during the Second World War. The km 0 and 00 …

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4.85 km

A US Air Force twin-engine bomber from WW II.

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5.03 km

D-Day Memorial June 6, 1944

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Monument commemorating the Allied landings in Normandy as part of Operation Overlord. The statue was created by the American sculptor Stephen Spears. Now - in 2022 - the different war resp. Anti-war memorials more intense than before.

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5.25 km

Time for reflection and silence

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10.4 km

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Parking

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Way Types & Surfaces

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6.58 km

3.05 km

563 m

199 m

Surfaces

6.26 km

3.00 km

534 m

453 m

129 m

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Thursday 13 August

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April 5, 2025,Utah Beach entlang
Today we went to Utah Beach. Parking was free again, like in most parking lots right next to a D-Day Museum (there seem to be thousands of them). We walked right onto the beach, past the many Americans. The water had receded quite a bit, so we were able to see mussel beds.
The wind was very strong that day, …

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