Discover the peat polders around Abcoude

Around Abcoude you will find a vast peat landscape full of ponds, ditches, mills and old villages. Are you looking for peace and space? Then this walk is really something for you.

Historic Baambrugge
From Nigtevecht you can walk straight into the polders. On the right you look out over grassy fields where many cows graze, a beautiful Dutch picture. You cross the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal, after which you walk along a leafy and straight path along the rippling water. Get some fresh air and clear your head. In Baambrugge you seem to step back in time, there are so many beautiful old houses here. You can recharge your batteries at Café-restaurant Bon at the Vinkeveense Plassen.

Quack
You walk along the Winkel river to Abcoude. Here too you will find many historic houses. You cross the Gein via the Wilhelminaburg, a kwakel (pedestrian bridge) from 1908. Around this meandering river you walk on the dike past meadows, pollard willows and elongated plots of land with old farms. You pass the Oostzijdse Mill dating from 1874, one of Mondriaan's beloved painting objects. You walk back to Nigtevecht along the canal.