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Caterpillar Crater – World War I Crater loop from De Palingbeek

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Caterpillar Crater – World War I Crater loop from De Palingbeek

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Caterpillar Crater – World War I Crater loop from De Palingbeek

03:28

30.7km

200m

Running

Hard run. Very good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: March 21, 2026

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Bus stop

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2.69 km

Oude Kasseiweg along the Ieper-Komen Canal

Highlight (Segment) • Cycleway

8.30 km

ComingWorldRememberMe Land Art Installation

Highlight • Monument

The 'Grote Oerei' of Land art installation CWRM by Koen Vanmechelen does not leave us unmoved.
The primordial egg with figurines, which seem to find their way in an organic way, forms a world map where all continents are connected. “Connection -
No more war” still appears to be an illusion today. History keeps repeating itself.

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10.3 km

Caterpillar Crater

Highlight • Historical Site

Gigantic mine explosion crater

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10.4 km

World War I Crater

Highlight • Historical Site

Beautiful serene place

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10.6 km

Hill 60 Memorial

Highlight • Historical Site

Hill 60 is a memorial site and park on a World War I battlefield in the Zwarteleen area of Zillebeke south of Ypres, Belgium.

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10.8 km

Hill 60 preserved Battlefield (World War I)

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Hill 60 (60 points to the height of the hill) was created in 1850 by excavation work on the Ypres-Comen railway line. During the First World War, the hill changed hands no fewer than seven times, each time at the expense of bloody battles. The toll of the April-May 1915 battles was especially heavy: 2000 Germans and 3000 British were killed. The detonation of 19 mines under Hill 60 and the Caterpillar killed 687 men of the 204th German Division. The original monument to the Queen Victoria Rifles atop the hill was damaged during WWII. The current remarkable monument is made with fragments of it. In the hill itself, perhaps dozens of soldiers are still buried in the clay. The mound is a cemetery without a headstone.

Source: hiking guide Flanders route GR 128

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10.9 km

Trench 42 Memorial at Hill 60

Highlight • Monument

𝐕𝐨𝐥𝐠 𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐟 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝟐𝟗 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝟐𝟖. 𝐃𝐨 𝐯𝐨𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐣𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐨 𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝟔𝟎.

Hill 60, south of Ypres, was of immense strategic importance during the war. Whoever occupied the 60-meter-high hill observed the battlefield. Fierce fighting took place around Hill 60, even underground. Both sides undermined each other's positions there. On April 26, 1916, the Germans detonated a mine under Trench 42. The trench, which ran across Wervik Street, was then manned by a platoon of the Canadian 2nd Battalion (Eastern Ontario). The explosion created a crater 25 meters wide and 10 meters deep. It was a fiery task to extract the wounded, let alone the dead, from the rubble. At least four unfortunates were buried alive: Thomas Riddols, a 21-year-old student from Drayton, Ontario; Bruce Brooks, originally from London; Edward Archer; and Arthur Harris.

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13.2 km

Groenenburg

Forest

17.4 km

Landgoed Godtschalck

Forest

27.2 km

The Bluff Memorial and Crater

Highlight • Historical Site

here you can enter a building to watch a movie about the war that happened at this location

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30.7 km

End point

Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

10.9 km

8.25 km

4.80 km

3.96 km

1.78 km

1.09 km

Surfaces

8.51 km

7.46 km

7.43 km

2.98 km

2.53 km

1.83 km

Elevation

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Saturday 16 May

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9°C

53 %

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Caterpillar Crater – World War I Crater loop from De Palingbeek

Oude Kasseiweg along the Ieper-Komen Canal

ComingWorldRememberMe Land Art Installation

Caterpillar Crater

World War I Crater

Hill 60 Memorial

Hill 60 preserved Battlefield (World War I)

Trench 42 Memorial at Hill 60

The Bluff Memorial and Crater

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