Tree Walks in Ghent

Ghent has one walk that string its ancient trees together on foot, past 5 trees in all. Each one is an afternoon rather than a hike, and every tree on it has a story worth the stop.

The order is ours, worked out from where the trees actually stand; the walking distance is the real one along streets and paths where we have been able to route it, and a straight line between trunks where we have not. Nothing here is a signposted trail.

Muinkpark

5 trees · about 2.3 km · 31 min on foot

Begins at The Tree of Heaven of the Michael Lustig Monument (Tree of Heaven (Ailanthus altissima)) and ends at The Copper Beech of Sint-Annaplein.

All of these stand in Ghent, where we map 6 remarkable trees in total. Or walk somewhere else: Alicante · Alkmaar · Amersfoort · Amsterdam · Arnhem · Assen

Over 2,300 old trees worth the walk