Curve Rhine Route 9: Niënhof

Along the Kromme Rijn you can take a 29 km walk from Wijk bij Duurstede to Utrecht, which largely follows the towpath along the river. That's a tough walk. But you can also divide the entire route into stages and make circular walks. This year, 2022, it will be 900 years ago that the Kromme Rijn was dammed. A good reason to walk around the Kromme Rijn every month. The ninth circular walk of 5 km starts at the parking lot of the Niënhof estate and follows the Ring Snake Route of the Utrecht Landscape plus the bend in the Kromme Rijn between Niënhof and Fort bij Rhijnauwen. You walk through a forest with soaring ash trees, over a geological monument, past meadows and an ash coppice grove. Arriving at Bunnik, the walk continues along the Kromme Rijn, largely close to the river or a secondary channel. You follow the hiking nodes 43-(poles ring snake route)-45-42-37-87-43.