Engelskirchen is surrounded by gentle hills, meadows, and mixed forests that invite cycling and hiking. The panoramic trail starts and ends in Ründeroth. Shopping facilities such as Aldi, Lidl, and Rewe, bakeries, butcher shops, snack bars, ice cream parlors, postal services, Jysk, Futterhaus, doctors, and the Engelskirchen/Loope hospital, as well as the Aggertal rehab clinic, are reachable within a few minutes by car.
The Oberbergischer Land offers several museums, dams, lakes, castles, and caves, including the walkable Aggertal cave in Ründeroth and the newly discovered Windloch in 2019, which is to be designated as a natural monument.
Additional seasonal activities in the vicinity include tennis, horseback riding, golfing, mini-golfing, fishing, ice skating, skiing/cross-country skiing, tobogganing, parks, playgrounds, some swimming pools, saunas, and much more... Popular destinations are the monkeys & birds park with an indoor hall and the fairy-tale forest in Altenberg.
Natural swimming pool Wallefeld 800m, Aggertal cave, Windloch 2.8km, "Multi-Generational Park" Aggerstrand 3km, Haldi Tower "Landmark of Ründeroth" 3.8km, Engel Museum 5.8km, Panorama swimming pool 6.5km, Castle Ehreshoven 11.6km.
Lindlar - Metabolon 5km, climbing park 10km, open-air museum 11.6km.
District town Gummersbach - City 9km, also accessible via bus line 317 (shopping; culture; Schwalbearena...)
Wiehl - Wiehlpark (skating, mini-golfing, playing, sliding, barbecuing), swimming pool Wiehler Wasserwelt 14km, wildlife park, and the stalactite cave 16km.
Nümbrecht - Museum and Forum Castle Homburg, spa clinic/spa park with mini-golf 19km.
Reichshof - Mediclin rehab clinic/spa park 22.3km, indoor pool, sauna & wellness monte mare, monkeys & birds park with indoor hall in Eckenhagen 23.5 km.
Altenberg - Fairy tale park 35.8km.
Metropolis Cologne - Cologne Fair 42km, Cologne Central Station and UNESCO World Heritage Site Cologne Cathedral 44.7km (with the RB 25 from Ründeroth station without transfers to Cologne Deutz Fair or Cologne Central Station), chocolate museum 44.8km. Cologne/Bonn Airport can be reached within 47km.
