Orange Route (ANWB)

The needle
Right in front of the entrance to Het Loo Palace is De Naald, a gift from the residents of Apeldoorn upon the wedding of Queen Wilhelmina to Prince Hendrik in 1901.

Hoog Buurlo
Hoog Buurlo is a beautiful old Veluwe hamlet, with three sheepfolds between tall beech trees. A sheep herd runs from the center to the Hoog Buurlose Heide. Burlohe was mentioned as a forest as early as 814. In the late Middle Ages, monks settled there, who, among other things, started an oak coppice culture; oak bark was highly sought after for leather tanning. The wood went to the baker's ovens.

Stop Assel
There used to be a small station near Assel: Halte Assel. The train stopped there on request. King William III stopped there when he visited the Aardhuis (see map). The railway dates from 1876.

Asselse Heide
Cycle across the Asselse Heide towards Hoog Soeren. The fens are created by an impermeable soil layer that can easily be punctured by excavation work; Many fens on the Veluwe have disappeared as a result, but near Hoog Soeren they are still beautifully intact.

Pomphul
Just before Hoog Soeren are three burial mounds in a row, on a hilltop on the left in the forest. Behind it is a depression with a pond and a bench, Pomphul, a favorite spot of Queen Sophie, the first wife of King William III. The residents of Hoog Soeren fetched water here and poured it into barrels up the steep dirt road. In 1863, King William III had a well dug. Viewing: turn left at the information board in the middle of Hoog Soeren, onto the Veluws Nuts Bedrijf site. In a small corner house near the information board, Hoog Soeren children learned to read, write and calculate until 1870. A little further on is the'new\\\' two-person school, now a house.

Echowell
At Restaurant De Echoput there is a small white house containing a 60 m deep echo well, which was dug in the early 19th century by order of King Louis Napoleon, to provide water for the horses of passing convoys and stagecoaches. The cottage was one of twelve toll houses along this road. Back to Het Loo you descend more than 70 m along the flank of the moraine.

Tree Stump Cathedral
Just to the left of the route is a work of art that was donated to Het Kroondomein by Queen Beatrix in 1999 on the occasion of her 60th birthday. The Tree Stump Cathedral consists of 40 bronze stumps, placed according to the ground pattern of the Reims Cathedral (400 m after junction 08 la cart path and after 100 m ra).