National Park Utrechtse Heuvelrug and Grebbeberg
Cycling in a beautiful landscape with country estates, stately avenues, colored heather fields, sand drifts and mixed forests.
The Landscape
The province of Utrecht is traversed by an extensive sequence of hills and meltwater valleys, an inheritance from the penultimate Ice Age more than 150,000 years ago. From the Gooimeer in North Holland to the Grebbeberg along the Rhine, ice pushed sand and stones into an elongated moraine with a total area of no less than 23,000 hectares. The discovery of flint tools indicated human presence here over 100,000 years ago. It wasn't until the 18th century that people discovered the beauty of the hilly landscape with endless forests, extensive moors, and marshy floodplains. Wealthy Dutch individuals began establishing the first country estates on the southwestern edge of the Utrechtse Heuvelrug, constructing castles and manors. This eventually led to a long series of over a hundred country estates and manors, collectively known as the "Stichtse Lustwarande." Nowhere else in the Netherlands will you find such a fascinating diversity between culture and nature.
Forests and Heaths
Estates and Heritage
Rivers and Streams
Hills and Valleys
Bike with us
Route map
You will bike in the vicinity of the towns of Leersum, Amerongen, Rhenen, Elst, and Veenendaal.
Start and finish at bike node 65 on the Groene Entree in Amerongen. However, this bike route is a circular tour, so it offers the possibility to start from any of the following bike nodes.
65 - 69 - 68 - 12 - 71 - 82 - 83 - 22 - 23 - 66 - 20 - 43 - 85 - 39 - 38 - 34 - 30 - 35 - 53 - 31 - 32 - 52 - 36 - 37 - 40 - 41 - 42 - 65
