Germany road maps

[Tyrant68]

Who supplies the most detailed road maps?
Doing my own Dambuster run in august, so I'm after maps to plan a route on.
Will also be visiting Ypres for the last call
Thanks
Ty

[sprintster]

I always go for Michelin National maps.I find them easier to read than some others and they have the scenic roads marked.

[PaulinBont]

The ADAC series are brilliant for plotting the back roads.

The municipal campsite at Ypres is a nice place, either camping or a small selection of wooden pods with a small hob and pots and pans if required; about a ten- minute walk to the Menin Gate.

[Ourdavid]

If you're doing the dams you must include Wewelsburg castle the seat of Heinrich Himmler's SS, lots of history and a museum. The cafe does excellent cakes, It's about 30 miles from Mohne Dam with some excellent roads. Winterburg is also worth a visit crammed with bikes on a weekend, you could spend a holiday round there.
http://www.wewelsburg.de/en/

[Africa John]

The municipal campsite at Ypres is a nice place, either camping or a small selection of wooden pods with a small hob and pots and pans if required; about a ten- minute walk to the Menin Gate.

Campsite is Jeugstadion and is a most excellent facility. The bar looking onto the Menin Gate serves excellent and potent trappist monk dark beers - just don't ask me how I know about their potency! Also a must see is the In Flanders Fields museum, the old corn exchange IIRC

Have a great trip. I've done both and riding through the landscape of the dams is breath taking

[johnnyboxer]

There is only 1................Michelin (thumbs)

[big al]

Hi Tyrant 68 (thumbs) .
Done the Dambusters trip, and Yepres. I've used the Philips map from wh smith, and michelin.
both are good .
You'll have a fantastic time around the dams.the roads are great.
Take some wet weather gear with you, itmay rain a bit :whistle:

[Tyrant68]

Thanks everyone.
It will be backed up with a satnav, but I like old school paper too.
Ferry booked just need a route
Will do a mix of camping and hotel.

[bikenav]

Did a trip there last year well it was a bit of a WW2 history trip. I have found 2 whole Country maps can work well, one that is road network specific perhaps michellin as mentioned or similar and a second touristy map usually showing less road detail but more general info. Alternatively a Michellin ring bound country Atlas a little heavy but good for road detail for small roads a pain if your blatting on main roads (too many page changes) rip out all the unimportant pages and it may just fit in your mapcase.
A screenshot of my plnned WW2 route including the Atlantic Wall, OP Market Garden, A german Tank Museum, Dora Rocket Museum, The Dams, And the Ardenne for the battle of the Bulge especially Pipers route for the other Anaraks out there. Only actually completed a small part of it spent a lot of time around Eindhoven etc I usually plan too much distance without the expectation to complete it all.
I have a GPX if anybody wants it its a bit big so how well it will send I don't Know.

[bikenav]

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