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North Rhine-Westphalia

Mettmann

Haan

Eppinghoven Mill – Strategic railroad embankment 🤩 unfortunately awesome 🤩 highly recommended loop from Haan

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Germany

North Rhine-Westphalia

Mettmann

Haan

Eppinghoven Mill – Strategic railroad embankment 🤩 unfortunately awesome 🤩 highly recommended loop from Haan

Hard

riders

Eppinghoven Mill – Strategic railroad embankment 🤩 unfortunately awesome 🤩 highly recommended loop from Haan

04:12

77.6km

250m

Gravel riding

Hard gravel ride. Good fitness required. You may need to push your bike for some segments of this route. The route includes a crossing by ferry. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: March 23, 2026

This route includes a ferry crossing

Tips

Includes a segment in which cycling is not permitted

After 12.6 km for 188 m

Waypoints

Start point

Train Station

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2.26 km

Spörkelnbruch

Nature Reserve

11.2 km

Eller Forst

Nature Reserve

11.9 km

Eller Forst

Forest

12.1 km

Eller Forest

Highlight • Forest

The Eller forest is the oldest nature reserve of Dusseldorf. The wet forest and meadow areas provide a home for many plants and animals, the latter can be observed very well in the early morning hours.

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24.7 km

View of the Rhine and Düsseldorf

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Düsseldorf is always worth a visit.

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27.7 km

Erft near Neuss

Highlight • River

Shortly before the mouth of the Erft in the Rhine, the watercourse is being renatured as part of the perspective concept for the Erft conversion. The backwaters, some of which …

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28.1 km

Erft Canoe Slalom Course

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If you are lucky, you will see canoeists doing their sport here.

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32.1 km

Eppinghoven Mill

Highlight • Monument

1765 and later. 2nd storey, 4-winged, washed brick building with hipped roof, segmental arched windows with Klobensteinen, colossal pilaster order, profiled storey cornice, gabled central part, stone tablet with volutes …

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32.9 km

Erft

Lake

43.4 km

Strategic railroad embankment 🤩 unfortunately awesome 🤩 highly recommended

Highlight • Cycleway

Can be driven on in any weather.

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50.0 km

Knechtsteden forest nature reserve

Highlight • Forest

The Knechtstedener Wald is a forest area west of Dormagen, which includes the parts Mühlenbusch, Knechtstedener Busch and Chorbusch. It is a flora-fauna-habitat area and headwaters of the Pletschbach. Species …

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61.6 km

Zons Rhine Ferry

Highlight • Structure

1 € for pedestrians, 1,50 € for bikes incl. 1 person.

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62.5 km

Beach

77.6 km

End point

Train Station

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

39.4 km

13.9 km

13.6 km

5.41 km

5.10 km

148 m

107 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

32.8 km

23.0 km

10.7 km

5.42 km

5.27 km

521 m

Elevation

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Highest point (130 m)

Lowest point (30 m)

Weather

Sunday 24 May

28°C

12°C

0 %

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Eppinghoven Mill – Strategic railroad embankment 🤩 unfortunately awesome 🤩 highly recommended loop from Haan

Eller Forest

View of the Rhine and Düsseldorf

Erft near Neuss

Erft Canoe Slalom Course

Eppinghoven Mill

Strategic railroad embankment 🤩 unfortunately awesome 🤩 highly recommended

Knechtsteden forest nature reserve

Zons Rhine Ferry

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