Choose your starting point
The starting points are easily accessible by car and usually also by public transport. Parking is available and you will usually find good catering facilities nearby. At each starting point you will find an information board showing the nicest walking routes in the immediate vicinity. You can choose from an array of circular walks, with distances ranging from 2 to 12 km, all signposted in two directions with coloured arrows.
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Starting Point Nieuwesluis
Nieuwesluis is an attractive dyke hamlet in the north-east corner of Wieringerwaard. It is hard to imagine that this was intended to become the centre and harbour of the polder after the reclamation
Starting point Nijenburg
The Nijenburg estate is located between Alkmaar and Heiloo on an old beach ridge, which was richly covered with forest during the Middle Ages. The nearby coastal plain was reclaimed by the powerful
Starting point Nollenstrook
The Nollenstrook, a two-kilometre green buffer, was created in the 1970s between the Beverkoog business park and Sint Pancras. This wooded strip has been planted with a range of native trees and
Starting point Noorderstraat
All routes from this starting point pass through the North Holland Dune Reserve, managed by the drinking-water company PWN. The compulsory entry ticket is available from the ticket
Starting point Oosterzijpolder
Four walking routes start here. The Kooimeer Route (blue) follows Natuurmonumenten’s Kooimeerpolder walk. You walk along the old dyke around this small lake, which was drained as early as
Starting Point Ouderkerkerplas (tourist transfer point)
The Ouderkerkerplas is a deep sand extraction lake that supplied the sand for the foundation of the A9 motorway. The water from the lake is brackish because it mixes with salty groundwater. This is
Starting Point Oudesluis
Oudesluis developed as a settlement by a lock shortly after the fourth and final embankment of the Zijpe tidal area in 1597. It still lay on the Wadden Sea at the time; the Anna Paulownapolder to the
Starting point Overveen Station
Overveen station is an excellent starting point for beautiful walks. You can walk straight into the dunes from the old station on the winding railway line. Walking past the old water tower, you’ll
Starting Point Parnassia
Zuid-Kennemerland National Park is a walker’s paradise and that certainly applies to the Kennemerduinen of the PWN water company. The Kennemerduinen in Bloemendaal was a water extraction area until
Starting point Quaatrebas Badhoevedorp
In just 10 years, Badhoevedorp has been completely turned around. Until April 2017, highway traffic rushed right through the village. Something that is unimaginable now. A lot has been built in a