Gelderse Poort and Lingewaard
Cycling in a historical cultural landscape with rivers, polders, flood-meadows, kolks, riverbanks, hawthorn hedges and standard orchards.
The Landscape
The Lingewaard is located in the National Landscape De Gelderse Poort and is characterized by a beautiful landscape of rivers and dikes. Several rivers flow in the area and the Rhine divide here into the Waal and the Lower Rhine. Many kilometers of dikes offer a fantastic view over the busy rivers. Hundreds of hectares of floodplains have been returned to nature and the river. Due to the renewed dynamics in the river flow, dunes formed along the rivers, people initiated side channels and wild horses and cattle created a rugged landscape with grasslands, herbaceous vegetation, and riparian forests. And along the slowly flowing river Linge you will find extensive orchards full of blossom in the spring and full of delicious fruit in the late summer.
Estates and Heritage
Polders and Farmlands
Lakes and Ponds
Rivers and Streams
Bike with us
Route map
Start and finish near bike node 66 at the Looveer in Huissen. However, this bike route is a circular tour, so it offers the possibility to start from any of the following bike nodes.
66 - 30 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 5 - 13 - 14 - 15 - 8 - 9 - 98 - 26 - 25 - 31 - 33 - 32 - 97 - 85 - 79 - 80 - 77 - 87 - 92 - 68 - 67 - 66
