The beating Heart of Drenthe

This route takes you through the beating Heart of Drenthe. You will find 5,000 hectares of uninterrupted nature here! You will also pass through the picturesque Orvelte.

Orvelte Open Air Museum
The route starts at Hotel Restaurant Ruyghe Venne. A nice place for a coffee or lunch before jumping on the saddle. You will soon enter the village of Westerbork, where you can admire, among other things, the fifteenth-century St. Stephen's Church. If you like photography and cultural history, you will love Orvelte. There are still many authentic farms in this almost thousand-year-old village, it looks like an open-air museum.

Heart of Drenthe
A large part of the route takes you through the vast nature of the Heart of Drenthe. Forests, heathlands, capricious streams: here you experience nature as it was meant to be. What is immediately noticeable: it is old-fashioned quiet here! The deeper you go into the forest, the more everyday life seems to disappear behind you. A great moment to completely clear your head. On the Hoofdstraat in Zwiggelte you can see a few beautiful eighteenth-century farms.