Discover Winterswijk and surroundings

Your route starts at Oldschool Hotel. National Landscape Winterswijk is a nature-rich region in the Gelderse Achterhoek. Here you cycle through a semi-open landscape of lanes and meandering streams in narrow valleys. Here and there you will see hedgerows and authentic Saxon farms. The route also takes you through a number of small forests. One of them is Bekendelle, an old deciduous forest with alder, ash and oak. The Boven-Slinge meanders through Bekendelle, where the kingfisher lives, among other things. The greater yellow wagtail and the middle spotted woodpecker also occur in this forest. You will see Saxon farms and mansions, but also some beautiful old mills. Just outside Winterswijk, for example, you pass De Oliemolle, a former double water mill on the course of the Boven-Slinge.