Gooi and Eemland
Cycling in a varied landscape with moors, forests, sand drifts, peat meadows, ditches and dikes.
The Landscape
Imagine a park-like landscape with large wild animals like aurochs, bears, mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses and giant deer. Groups of hunting and gathering Neanderthals crisscross the area. It sounds like something out of a fable, but this is what the landscape in the Gooi en Eemland must have looked like about 100,000 years ago. The current landscape is just as interesting. In the Gooi a mosaic of nature reserves with heaths, forests, sand drifts and historic fields. In the region Eemland vast peat meadows, ditches, dikes and open polders. And on the horizon the sparkling waters of the bordering lakes along the Flevopolder.
Forests and Heaths
Estates and Heritage
Polders and Farmlands
Rivers and Streams
Route map
You will bike in the vicinity of the towns of Blaricum, Huizen, Bussum, Baarn, and Eemnes.
Start and finish at bike node 16 on the Groeneveld in Baarn. This bicycle route is a round trip, so that offers the ability to start at any desired bike node.
Note! The ferry connection Eemdijk-Eemnes near bicycle bike node 11 has no service on sundays. It is advisable to cycle from cycle bike node 20 directly to cycle bike node 25 and continue the route from there to cycle bike node 2. Coming from the other side from cycle bike node 25, cycle directly to cycle bike node 20 and continue the route from there to cycle bike node 21.
16 - 21 - 20 - 19 - 8 - 12 - 11 - 25 - 2 - 1 - 75 - 76 - 77 - 78 - 33 - 34 - 32 - 37 - 10 - 36 - 50 - 51 - 53 - 56 - 22 - 16