Wadden Island Terschelling
Cycling on a beautiful island with a remarkably diverse landscape and a surprising amount of space.
The Landscape
Terschelling reveals an impressive and diverse mix of landscapes, including vast mudflats, rugged beaches, damp dune valleys, mixed forests, salt marshes, polders, heathlands, and marshes. The island offers a unique concentration of diverse natural areas and biodiversity that cannot be found so closely together anywhere else in the Netherlands. No less than eighty percent of Terschelling consists of protected nature reserves.
The west side of Terschelling is characterized by wide sandy beaches and impressive dunes, while the east side has a quiet and unspoiled nature with vast salt marshes and sandbanks that become visible at low tide. The central part of the island is dominated by forests, meadows, and a series of picturesque villages that add to the island’s charm.
In the north, there is an impressive 30-kilometer stretch of gently sloping beaches, with a width of over 500 meters in some places. To the south lies the dynamic tidal landscape of the Wadden Sea, a UNESCO World Heritage site, which blends harmoniously with the island’s natural environment and is constantly changing.
Forests and Heaths
Coastal and Tidal Zone
Polders and Farmlands
Swamps and Peatlands
Bike with us
Route map
You will bike in the vicinity of the towns of West-Terschelling, Midsland, Formerum, Hoorn, and Oosterend.
Start and finish at the Haven in West-Terschelling. However, this cycle route is a round trip, so that offers the possibility to start from any desired point in the cycle route.
Until now, the island Terschelling has not a cycle route network with bike nodes. The route on this page has been determined according to the most recent cycle route planners.
