National Park Loonse en Drunense Duinen
Cycling in a landscape with extensive forests, heathlands, sand dunes, stream valleys and farmlands.
The Landscape
The National Park De Loonse en Drunense Duinen is an extensive nature reserve of over 3,500 hectares, located between the cities of Tilburg, Waalwijk, and 's-Hertogenbosch. This impressive park offers a rich variety of landscapes. In the dry areas, you will find vast coniferous forests, heathlands, and large expanses of drifting sand. Additionally, there are wet areas characterized by streams, wet meadows, marshes, and brook forests.
The Loonse en Drunense Duinen is one of the largest drifting sand areas in Western Europe and is also known as the Brabant Sahara. The park still contains approximately thirty square kilometers of drifting sand that can freely blow around, causing constant changes in the landscape. This dynamic environment creates an ever-changing panorama of rolling sand dunes and open plains.
Forests and Heaths
Polders and Farmlands
Lakes and Ponds
Rivers and Streams
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Route map
Start and finish at bike node 34 on the Giersbergen in Drunen. However, this bike route is a circular tour, so it offers the possibility to start from any of the following bike nodes.
34 - 73 - 74 - 33 - 64 - 31 - 32 - 60 - 61 - 12 - 27 - 83 - 76 - 35 - 36 - 32 - 37 - 12 - 13 - 38 - 31 - 55 - 52 - 11 - 32 - 22 - 33 - 72 - 34
