Hiking route network

You can find hiking routes all over the country. very short ones, one to 5 km mainly in nature areas, local routes , region routes etc. It is far too much to cover here, so I will focus on hiking routes suitable for hiking holidays. Guides are in most case available in Dutch only. But, they normally include maps, and in increasing amounts GPS coordinates. You always can ask the locals, they normally will be very willing to help you finding your way or translating instructions.

NS hiking route

The Dutch railway company NS, supports a number of hiking route with good access with public transport. You can buy a route description and map at the nearby railway station, or download it. The descriptions are in Dutch, but they include a good map as well and all routes have signs showing the way. Because the network exists 20 years now, they issued a book with all routes. The length of the routes is between 8 km and 23 km. Few routes are routes for two days.

Streekpaden

Streekpad literally means regional path. They cover each a specific region with total lengths of 87 to 356 km.

Long distance hiking routes

The long distance hiking routes cover each a large part of the country. The most popular one is the "Pieterpad" which ranges fro the village Pieterburen in Groningen to the Pietersberg in the very south of Limburg. In 2010 the route has been revised completely.

Other hiking routes

I found Other hiking routes in Overijssel, for which GPS coordinates are provided, length 85 and 77 km, so nice for four or five days each.

Preview

You can lookup all major routes in Google maps. It's not good enough to walk them, but you can get a very good idea about the route.