Bakenberg and Leesten. Walk from Van der Valk Hotel Apeldoorn

This walk is not suitable for strollers and/or wheelchairs.

The walk goes through a varied landscape of forest and heath, hills and valleys. Everything preformed in the last two ice ages, then processed and adapted by humans.

The sand hump of the Veluwe with its precipitation surplus made it possible to dig sprinklers. These are watercourses dug into the slope below the groundwater level here.

The tour takes you past the Koppelsprengen dug at the beginning of the 17th century. The Bakenberg is then crossed (60 meters above sea level), part of a moraine formed in the penultimate ice age. Along a heath (with a

connected legend about a sunken golden bell) it continues along a heathland area above a small valley through the forest to the large meltwater valley and the undulating heathland of Het Leesten.