The Pieterpad is a long distance walking route in the Netherlands. The trail runs 498 kilometers from Pieterburen, in the northern part of Groningen, to the top of Mount Saint Peter (St Pietersberg), at a height of 109 meters, through the eastern part of the Netherlands. The Pieterpad is one of the official Long Distance Paths in the Netherlands (Lange Afstand Wandelpad Nummer 9) and by far the most popular of its long-distance walking routes. Although the walking is always easy and never remote, it is a varied and beautiful walk, passing through woods, polders, heathland, and numerous small Dutch villages.
The trail was the idea of Toos Goorhuis-Tjalsma living in Tilburg, in the south of the Netherlands, and her friend Bertje Jens living in Groningen, in the north of the Netherlands. They came up with the idea of designing a route between their hometowns, later re-organized between the far north to the far south. The route was officially open in 1983.
