A tour of De Groote Peel National Park

From here you drive to the Groote Moost nature reserve. Later on you cycle right along the edge of De Groote Peel National Park. The visitor center is on your route, it is worth getting off! Take a short walk to the watchtower here. 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 a vast high moor landscape. The peat bog, of which National Park De Groote Peel is also a remnant, covered about 30,000 hectares. Helenaveen was specially constructed for the extraction of raised moor, also known as'the black gold\\\'. Nowadays, the raised moor is being restored, for example with a high water level.