The Best Pancake Route The Strohoed Drentse Hooglanden

Cycling through beautiful villages, stopping at an open-air museum, having a nice bite to eat and then cycling through vast forests again: variety is the name of the game here on the Drentse Hooglanden! A complete day out on the bike.

Open Air Museum Orvelte
Near Aalden you start. Via Meppen you drive to Witteveen, a development village that was founded in 1926 as a work creation project. It is the youngest village in Drenthe, yet the old workers' houses are more than worth a good look. You can find more history in Orvelte. In this almost thousand year old brink village there are still many authentic farms, it is one big open-air museum. So definitely get off.

Drenthe forests
A little later you will sit down for something delicious at Pancake restaurant De Strohoed. You will cycle further through Boswachterij Schoonloo, which is part of an extensive forest area with dense forests and wet stream valleys. Schoonloo is located on the Rolderrug, a rise in the landscape that reaches its highest point here, namely 22 meters above NAP. Do you feel it in your calves? In Boswachterij Odoorn you can also cycle wonderfully between the trees. What a beautiful nature and culture route!