Wandelnetwerk Noord-Holland

Groene Weelde is the name of the park area that was created in the run-up to the Floriade that was held here and in the adjacent Haarlemmermeerse Bos in 2002. Two routes depart from this point, the Cruquius Route and the Anjer Route. The Cruquius pumping station, located on the ring canal opposite the mouth of the Spaarne, had the largest steam engine in the world at the time. Around 1850, together with two pumping stations of the same type, Lynden and Leeghwater, it caused the Haarlemmermeer to become the Haarlemmermeer polder in a few years' time. Leeghwater's plans from 1640 proposed to do this with 200 wind-driven polder mills.

The Landgoed Wickevoort estate concerns grounds around the Cruquiushoeve farmhouse. It was founded by Henrik Wickevoort Crommelin, the 19th-century resident of the Berkenrode estate in Heemstede. In the late 1950s it came into possession of a care institution for people with epilepsy and mental disabilities. Pavilions and living facilities were also built. Since 2020, a residential area has been under development here with an adjacent vegetable garden. Until the neighbourhood is completed, the course of the walking route can still change.

• The Anjer Route (red) in the vicinity of Cruquius and Hoofddorp leads around the lake in the Prins Bernhardbos. A forest was created here in a short time by planting already mature trees.
• The Cruquius Route (blue) leads to the historic Cruquius steam pumping station, which has been a museum since 1934. The way there and back leads through the Prins Bernhardbos and over the Wickevoort estate.