Seven Views of the Hill Country

A ride collecting the region's best panoramas — Cauberg, Gulperberg, the Vaals tower and the chalk cliffs above Maastricht.

This is the loop for legs and lenses: every stop is a viewpoint the postcards use. Climb the Cauberg like the Amstel Gold pros, roll on to the Gulperberg's hilltop Mary statue, and take the tower at Vaals for the three-country sweep. The way back west runs over the Bemelerberg's chalk grasslands and ends on the Sint-Pietersberg cliffs with all of Maastricht at your wheels. E-bike honourable; road bike heroic.