Beaufays works well as a base: 10 minutes from Embourg, 13km from Ninglinspo Valley.
Beaufays is in Wallonia, Belgium, with about 5,500 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Embourg, about 4 km away.
Beaufays (French pronunciation: [bofa(j)i]}; Walloon: Beafayi) is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Chaudfontaine, located in the province of Liège, Belgium.
Before the municipal consolidations of 1977, it was its own municipality. Its postal code is 4052 and its telephone area code is 04Read more 368.
The public school accommodates about 650 students and 31 classes. The school is known for both academics and for athletics.
Belgium's only true mountain stream, tumbling through the Aywaille woods in a chain of red-rock cascades and natural bathing pools with names like 'Bain de Diane'; the trail starts directly at the Sedoz roadside parking.
13 km · about 25 min drive
scenic viewpoint
Gileppe Dam
A 19th-century dam near Spa crowned by a 13-ton stone lion, with a 78 m panorama tower and forested Ardennes reservoir views a short detour off the Verviers road.
23 km · about 25 min drive
landmark
Durbuy
Billed as the smallest town in the world, a cluster of grey-stone houses and a castle in a green Ardennes valley.
26 km · about 30 min drive
racetrack
Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps
Home of the Belgian Grand Prix, featuring the legendary Eau Rouge corner
27 km · about 30 min drive
museum
Stavelot Abbey
A 1,000-year-old abbey minutes from Spa-Francorchamps housing the circuit's official racing museum, with historic F1 and endurance cars in its vaulted cellars.
28 km · about 30 min drive
landmark
Vrijthof Maastricht
A grand cafe-ringed square anchored by two medieval churches in the Netherlands' oldest, most Burgundian city.
32 km · about 35 min drive
national park
Hautes Fagnes
Belgium's highest, wildest plateau of peat bog and boardwalk trails, often the snowiest corner of the country.
32 km · about 35 min drive
scenic viewpoint
Signal de Botrange
At 694m this is the highest point in Belgium, marked by a stone tower on the Hautes Fagnes plateau.
33 km · about 40 min drive
Driving roads near Beaufays
5 named roads, passes and coastal drives within 150km.
23 kmGileppe DamA 19th-century dam near Spa crowned by a 13-ton stone lion, with a 78 m panorama tower and forested Ardennes reservoir views a short detour off the Verviers road.
33 kmSignal de BotrangeAt 694m this is the highest point in Belgium, marked by a stone tower on the Hautes Fagnes plateau.
35 kmBaraque de FraitureBelgium's second-highest point at 652 m, a windswept Ardennes plateau crossroads on the N89 with a small ski station and sweeping high-fen scenery.
35 kmVaalserberg DrielandenpuntThe Netherlands' highest mainland point at 322.4 metres, where the Dutch, Belgian and German borders meet near Vaals.