Cycling along the Veluwerandmeren from Harderwijk

Your route starts at Camping het Vossenhol. At the start of this route you cycle through the Hanseatic city of Harderwijk. Here you will find numerous ornate houses and stately buildings from the time when the city was prosperous due to fishing on the Zuiderzee. From here you cycle further along the edge of the Randmeren in the direction of Bunschoten-Spakenburg. You will pass the Arkemheen steam pumping station, where you will also find a visitor center that is worth a visit. The polder surrounding the pumping station is now a bird sanctuary. The Arkemheen polder was drained for about a hundred years from 1883 by the Arkemheen steam pumping station. The function of this paddle wheel pumping station was taken over by an electric pumping station in 1983, but the old steam pumping station is still put into operation from time to time.