Camping - Hiker's cabins

If you really want to experience nature, you can spend the night in hiker's cabins and/or tents along the National Park Trail. Here's how to do it:

• Day 1: Walk the first stage [1] of the National Park Trail, from Kattevennen Entrance Gate to Camping Jocomo (21 km). At Camping Jocomo, you have two options:
  * For €19/day, you can pitch your tent on the tent field [2] and use the sanitary facilities and picnic tables. There is also a cafeteria for drinks and snacks.
  * For €70/day, you can rent a hiker's cabin [3] (max. four people) and use the public sanitary facilities.
• Day 2: Walk the second stage [4] from Camping Jocomo to Terhills. Here too, you have two options:
  *Walk a 23 km route and spend the night in the National Park Hiker's Cabins [5] at the former Eisden station. A hiker's cabin for 4 people, with private bathroom facilities, costs €120/night.
  *Walk a 26 km route and pitch your tent at the pole camping [6] near the National Park Visitor Centre. Here you pay €15 per person per night to reserve a tent spot and you can use the sanitary facilities.
• Day 3: Walk the third stage [7] from the hiker's cabins to Camping Zavelbos (28 km). Or from pole camping at the National Park Visitor Centre [6] to Camping Zavelbos (25 km). Accommodation options 
  *Bring your own tent and stay on the tent field [8] for €32.50, with use of the facilities included, of course.
  *Rent a glamping tent [9] for six people for €158/night, with private bathroom facilities.
• Day 4: Walk the fourth stage [10] from Camping Zavelbos to Thorpark. There are two options here, depending on the distance you still have to travel home after the hike:
  * End point at 25 km at Thorpark, where you can take the bus to Genk Station or the bus to the starting point at Kattevennen (where your car is parked).
  * Or you can walk another 10 km to the starting point at Kattevennen (this is definitely not the most beautiful part of the route!).
  * Or you can camp again at our pole camping [6] site in Thorpark and do the last 10 km the next day.

If the above advice does not work, be sure to check out Campspace [11]or Welcome to my garden [12]. Here you will find an overview of hospitable Limburgers who open their gardens to your tent. We would also like to point out that wild camping is prohibited in Belgium for nature conservation reasons. Together with all hikers, we want to respect what little nature we have left as much as possible, so that future generations can also enjoy it.