The Landscape

Enschede is nestled in the heart of a sylvan landscape, graced by stately estates, time-honored farms, and expansive nature reserves. In the outskirts of this largest city in Overijssel you will find an almost endless variety of marshy peatlands, hedgerows, ponds, sprawling heathlands, meandering streams, flower-filled meadows, undulating fields, and sandy pathways. In addition to a wide range of natural values, this landscape also contains traces of a once-thriving textile industry, a storied history of salt extraction, and ancient pathways once trodden by clandestine smugglers.

Forests and Heaths

Estates and Heritage

Polders and Farmlands

Swamps and Peatlands

Bike with us

Virtual cycling in Green zone around Enschede

Route map

Start and finish near bike node 53 on the Colosseum in Enschede. However, this bike route is a circular tour, so it offers the possibility to start from any of the following bike nodes.

53 - 32 - 30 - 38 - 37 - 36 - 50 - 41 - 40 - 43 - 44 - 10 - 9 - 8 - 7 - 5 - 2 - 1 - 27 - 23 - 24 - 25 - 54 - 52 - 53

35
Miles
225
Minutes
196
Elevation meters