page_title: Hürtgen Forest
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Hürtgen Forest / Geography
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Karte des Hürtgenwalds und umliegender Ortschaften English: Map of the Battle of Hürtgen Forest
context_page_description: The Hürtgen forest is located along the border between Belgium and Germany, in the southwest corner of the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Scarcely 130 square kilometres in area, the forest lies within a triangle outlined by the German towns of Aachen, Monschau, and Düren. The Rur River runs along the forest's eastern edge.
context_section_description: The Hürtgen Forest lies at the northern edge of the Eifel mountains and High Fens – Eifel Nature Park; its terrain is characterized by plunging valleys that carve through broad plateaus.  Unlike many areas of Germany in which the valleys are farmed and hilltops are wooded, the Hürtgen Forest's deep valleys are thickly wooded and the hilltop plateaus have been cleared for agriculture.  The forest's rough terrain starkly contrasts with that of the adjoining Rhine Valley.  Roads in the forest are few, winding, and narrow.
caption: Map of the Huertgen Forest (Hürtgenwald)
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