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.
Prefer a longer walk?
Then a themed route is ideal.
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Starting point Venneperhout Nieuw-Vennep (tourist transfer point)
The Venneperhout was first water, then arable land and now a polder forest. Construction started in 2003. The result is a varied park forest on the edge of Nieuw-Vennep with some brushland. It’s
Starting point Vijfhuizen
It might be hard to imagine here amongst the new housing estates, but Vijfhuizen already existed before the reclamation. At that time, the centre was a little further north on a headland in the
Starting point Vogelenzang
Vogelenzang is located on one of the old beach ridges behind the dunes. Bulb cultivation has traditionally been done on the geest lands in between. In the spring, the colourful carpets of blooms
Starting Point Waarland
Before the reclamation works of the 1550s–1590s, this area consisted of an archipelago of small islands in reed beds and shallow lakes. Waarland was therefore written as Waertland (low-lying land).
Starting point Wandelbos Groenendaal Heemstede
We should be glad that the municipality of Heemstede bought Wandelbos Groenendaal in 1913 when excavation for bulb cultivation was imminent. It’s a combination of several estates and homesteads
Starting Point Warmenhuizen
Warmenhuizen originated as a cluster of dwelling mounds or ‘wallen’ (Oostwal, Oude Wal), built up in the early Middle Ages using clay and seaweed by settlers from Schoorl. This dune village lay
Starting point Westbroekplas
Three marked walking routes depart from this point and pass through Spaarnwoude Park: a diverse region of forests, polders, peat meadows, marshes and water. There are also two forts that were part of
Starting point Westerland
You can choose from three varied circular walks in and around Wieringen's gently undulating Westerland: over old weir and tidal dikes, past a harbour, a lake and a sea. Altogether, it’s an ode to
Starting Point Wieringen
To the west of Den Oever, the land rises gently to the five-metre-high boulder clay hill of the old village of Oosterland. The hill was pushed up by Scandinavian glaciers during the Ice Age and later
Starting Point Wieringerwaard
Initially, the Wieringerwaard, reclaimed in 1610–1611, was known as the Nieuwe Zijpe, as it was seen as an extension of the Zijpe, which had been definitively reclaimed in 1597. The Wieringerwaard