Cycling around Zuidlaren - Dutch cycle routes

During this cycling tour in the northern part of the National Landscape Drentsche Aa you will enjoy an ancient cultural landscape with natural meandering streams in the best preserved stream valley parks of Western Europe. This route also takes you through the flowery stream valley landscape of the Hunzedal between Zuidlaren and Gieten, through the only archaeological reserve in the Netherlands De Strubben-Kniphorstbos and through the open moorland of the nature reserve Vijftig Bunder.

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Bike junctions

Start and finish near junction 85 on the Wedbroek in Tynaarlo, the total distance of the route is approx. 47 km. However, this bicycle route is a round trip, so that offers you the ability to start at any desired junction.

More information about bike junctions and how to plan your cycle route

85 - 82 - 39 - 67 - 75 - 99 - 91 - 91 - 98 - 90 - 32 - 31 - 30 - 97 - 92 - 60 - 62 - 66 - 61 - 58 - 85

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Seen along the route

More routes in Drenthe

Dwingeloo

Vast purple heather fields with woods, juniper berries, pittoresque villages, burial mounds and fens.

Klazienaveen

A rugged nature in the largest contiguous peat moor landscape in the Netherlands.

Odoorn

Quiet forests, old drift sands areas, scattered heather fields, shallow fens and a few dolmens and ancient burial mounds.

Veenhuizen

An almost untouched high moor landscape with vast vistas, endless space and forests around a monumental detention village.

Zuidwolde

A varied landscape with brook valleys, flowery meadows, old hedgerows and extensive forest areas with fens and moors.

Havelte

Endless cycling through a primeval nature with rippling creeks, sand drifts, twilight spruce forests and vast heathlands.

Rolde

An ancient stream valley landscape with a poetically meandering brook, moorlands, colorful hay fields and idyllic villages on rolling fields.

Mantingerveld

A primeval landscape with vast moors, a prehistoric forest, jagged sand drifts and centuries-old juniper bushes.

Diever

A varied landscape with dense forests, impressive sand drifts, fairy-like fens, vast heathlands and swampy areas.

Beilen

A landscape with varied forests, vast heathland, surprising fens, impressive drift sands and meandering streams.

Coevorden

A classic peat landscape with beautiful villages, monumental farms, stream valleys, meadows and wooded banks.

Zuidlaren

A stream valley landscape with forests, heath and the largest archaeological monument in the Netherlands with dolmens, burial mounds and ancient field roads.

Roden

A diversified landscape with forests, raised bog, wet and dry heathland, wet grasslands, streams and marshes and prehistoric urn fields.