National Park Drentsche Aa and Hunzedal
Cycling in a flowery stream valley landscape with woods, heathland, dolmens, burial mounds and old country roads.
The Landscape
The Drentsche Aa National Park is the best-preserved stream and Angerdorf landscape in Western Europe. This landscape was created many thousands of years ago through a collaboration of nature and man. The Drentsche Aa is one of the few streams in the Netherlands whose natural course has hardly changed for thousands of years. Land consolidation took almost not place here, so that the age-old landscape layout has been preserved. Traces of early habitation can be found everywhere. Picturesque Saxon farmhouses and old oaks around the village greens, cobblestone streets, traditionally managed fields surrounded by hedgerows and flowery meadows in the swampy stream valley give you nostalgic feelings. And prehistoric remains such as dolmens, burial mounds and ancient cart tracks keep history alive. From the National Park it is only a short distance to the ancient Hunzedal. Here you will find a quiet and wide stream valley with a beautiful variety of swamp forests, swamps, grassland and various streams that are fed by underground sources from which iron-colored seepage water bubbles up.
Forests and Heaths
Estates and Heritage
Polders and Farmlands
Rivers and Streams
Bike with us
Route map
You will bike in the vicinity of the towns of Tynaarlo, Zuidlaren, Midlaren, Annen and Gasteren.
Start and finish near bike node 85 on the Wedbroek in Tynaarlo. However, this bike route is a circular tour, so it offers the possibility to start from any of the following bike nodes.
85 - 82 - 39 - 67 - 75 - 99 - 91 - 98 - 90 - 32 - 31 - 30 - 97 - 92 - 60 - 62 - 66 - 61 - 58 - 85
