The walk starts in the center of Vaals, more precisely at the "von Clermontplein", with a few historical stops. The starting point is now home to the Vaals municipal administration. The baroque buildings once housed the town palace and the factory of the former textile manufacturer Johann Arnold von Clermont, after whom the square is still named today.

The churches in Vaals bear witness to early cross-border influences in the Dutch-Belgian border region. During the Reformation, many Protestant Belgians came to Vaals. Protestants in Belgium were forbidden to practise their religion. However, a whole range of religious communities settled in Vaals. A hall in the "Verves" building (from Clermontplein 34) served as a church for Mennonites from around 1600 to 1800. Today's "Kopermolen" museum was also originally a Lutheran church.

Kleng Wach on the German-Dutch border offers interesting cultural and historical attractions. The former border house was built between 1880 and 1900. It served as a customs crossing for pedestrians until 1972, but was mostly closed during the wars. Today it houses the smallest and highest museum in the Netherlands, which focuses on the history of smugglers. In front of the west side is an eagle stone made of bluestone.

Behind the Kleng Wach, the route crosses the border and follows the nature trail along the Inner Landgraben before climbing the steep path up the Vaalser Berg. At the top, there is another eagle stone and you come to the Outer Landgraben, which is well preserved up to the Dreiländerpunkt.

At the latter, the borders of the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany converge at one point. With around 800,000 visitors a year, the place has become an attraction for tourists. Also the highest point in the Netherlands at 322.5 meters above sea level, the Dreiländerpunkt also stands for the historically grown similarities and connections between the inhabitants of the three-country region.

From the Dreiländerpunkt, the route initially follows the Belgian-Dutch border. On the Schimperbosch, you will find the remains of an electric fence erected by German soldiers during the First World War. The aim was to separate conquered Belgium from the neutral Netherlands. In the German General Government in Brussels, it was hoped that this would significantly curb the escape of soldiers as well as smuggling and espionage activities. It claimed many lives, especially among the unsuspecting civilian population, for whom a memorial stone was erected near Sippenaeken in 1962.

The border route continues through the Malensbosch, the largest contiguous forest area in the Netherlands, to Kasteel Lemiers. Since the 12th century, this noble residence, whose land stretches across German and Dutch territory, has been located directly on the current German-Dutch border. Cellars and individual foundations remain from the original moated castle. At the beginning of the 16th century, the complex was rebuilt in the form of a manor house with an outer bailey in the late Renaissance style. A double stone arched bridge leads over the moat to a gate framed by two vase-crowned pillars and on into the garden, which is planted with mighty old trees. Today the Kasteel is privately owned.

Not far from Kasteel Lemiers, the route comes to Catharina Lemiers Chapel. The chapel in Oud-Lemiers, which probably dates back to the 11th century, is one of the oldest buildings of its kind in the Netherlands. It was built using materials from the surrounding area, including sandstone. The chapel has the shape of a small rectangular hall church with a narrow, right-angled choir. It is the only surviving example of a pre-Romanesque church form in the province of Limburg. In 1978, the Dutch artist Hans Truijen (1928-2005) designed the interior as a complete work of art with religious motifs in the COBRA style.

Next to the chapel is an eagle stone from the Aachen Empire, which the resourceful Dutch-Lemiers found washed up in the Senserbach in the 1940s and "rescued" on their side of the border.From Lemiers, the route leads through farmland and meadows back to Vaals, passing Kasteel Bloemendaal: Johann Arnold von Clermont built this magnificent early neoclassical building in the last years of his life.