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The Grande Randonnée 5, in short GR5 is a popular walking route that runs from Hoek van Holland by means of Belgium, Luxembourg and along the French eastern border to Nice, over a total distance of about 2500 kilometers. The route is largely marked with the well-known white-red markings for long-distance hiking and is one of the most popular of the European hiking routes. It is also an important part of the European walking route E2, which also by England and Scotland carries.
What makes the GR5 particularly attractive is the fact that it starts in the wetland polder landscape of the Dutch province Zealand and through a series of mountain ranges of ascending height to the French Alps runs. Crossed successively the hills of the FlemishKempen, the Ardennes in Wallonia, the vineyards of Luxembourg, the Vosges in the Alsace, the French Jura and finally, in full length and including the Mont Blanc, the French alps.
Info
Character
History
To prepare
Safety
Arrive
Route
The route starts from Hoek van Holland through Bergen op Zoom, Diest nasty Maastricht. From the terminus of the Pieterpad the path goes south towards the BelgianArdennes. Then it goes along the Luxembourgish-German border. South of Luxembourg goes the path France in. It continues west of Metz and goes just north of Nancy the Vosges in. It goes south along the Vosges and continues west of Mulhouse. At the Jura the path comes along the French side of the FrenchSwiss border to walk. After this it follows the French side of the FrenchItalian border and finally it ends in Nice.
Directions
Delta path
Route of the Low Countries
Bergen op Zoom - shutter
- Bergen op Zoom
- Essen (Belgium)
- Calmthout
- Wuustwezel
- Brecht (Belgium)
- Westmalle (city)
- Zoersel
- Grobbendonk
- Bouwel
- Noorderwijk
- Westerlo
- forbidden
- Scherpenheuvel-Zichem
- Diest
- To fetch
- Lummen
- Heusden-Zolder
- Hasselt
- Diepenbeek
- Genk
- Zutendaal
- Lanaken
- Veldwezelt
- jug
- Eben-Emael
- wonck
- Haccourt
- visé
- Dalhem
- Blegny
- Barchon
- Jupille-sur-Meuse
- Bressoux
- shutter
trajectory of the Ardennes
Lanaken - shutter
- Lanaken
- Dousberg
- St Pietersberg - connection Pieterpad
- jug
- wezet (Visé) - connection Pilgrim's path
- Dalhem
- Saint-Remy
shutter - Spa
- Olne
- Nessonvaux
- Winamplanche - connection GR-AE
- Spa - connection GR-AE
Spa - Vielsalm
Vielsalm - Ouren
- Burg Reuland
- Ouren
- Three-Country Point Belgium - Germany - Luxembourg
- Vianden
- Gilsdorf (Diekirch)
Procedure Luxembourg - Lorraine
Luxembourg
- Gilsdorf
- Eppeldorf
- Beaufort
- Berdorf
- Echternach
- rossport
- Moersdorf
- Wasserbillig
- manternach
- Grevenmacher
- Wormange
- Greiveldange
- Stadtbredimus
- Remich
- Wellenstein
- Remerschen - E3 direction Black Sea
- Elvange
- Mondorf-les-Bains
- aspelt
- hellange
- dudelange
- Tetange
The French Moselle Valley
- Escherange
- Fontoy
- Neufchef
- Rosselange
- Rombas
- Feves
- Norroy-le-Veneur
- Saulny
- Lorry-les-Metz
- Moulins-les-Metz
- Ars-sur-Moselle
- Gorze
- Bayonville-sur-Mad
- Montauville
- Mamey
- Rosières-en-Haye
- lidlude
- Custines
The Lorraine plateau
- Bouxières-aux-Chenes
- Amance
- Brin-sur-Seille
- Attillon Court
- Gremecey
- Salonnes
- Vic-sur-Seille
- Marsal
- Blanche-Eglise
- Assenon court
- Friborg
- gondrexange
- Niderhoff
- Saint-Quirin
- Abreschviller
- Donon (mountain)
- Schirmeck
Crete des Vosges
- Also see: Route des Cretes
- Also see: Directions to Joffre
La Grande Traversée du Jura... a pied
du Leman au mont Blanc, Tour des Dents du Midi
Parc National de la Vanoise
Aux Pays des Hautes Alpes
Tinée - Vesubie - Nice
Accessibility
stay overnight
To spend the night you will occasionally have to deviate from the actual route. Especially in France there are many chambres d'hôtes (bed & breakfast), also in the smaller places. However, it can happen that you suddenly have to walk many tens of kilometers in a row before you encounter something again, for example in the Lorraine part of the route.
Route descriptions and map material
The route is marked everywhere with red and white signs. Here and there the GR5 coincides with other well-known hiking routes, such as the Pilgrim Route to Santiago de Compostela.
Variants
- GR5F (near the Moselle)
- GR 52 (Mercantour National Park)
all around
external links
- Info page about the GR 5
- GR 5 Vosges
- degr5telijf.nl, for the most up-to-date accommodation options
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