Tour of De Groote Peel National Park

From here you drive to the Groote Moost nature reserve. A little longer you cycle right along the edge of De Groote Peel National Park. The visitor center is located on your route, so it is worth getting off! If necessary, take a short walk to the lookout tower. In the border area between North Brabant and Limburg you cycle through the remains of the Deurnsche Peel and the Mariapeel. In the past, these areas together formed an extensive raised bog landscape. The raised peat bog, of which De Groote Peel National Park is also a remnant, covered approximately 30,000 hectares. Helenaveen was specially constructed for the extraction of raised peat, also known as 'black gold'. Nowadays the raised bog is being restored, for example with a high water level.