Why this ride
A 109 km round trip from Bunnik - roughly 1 h 51 in the saddle. It goes by way of Utrecht-Limes road | Zandweg, Fort Werk IV and back through Utrecht-Limes road | Zandweg. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Bunnik-Vechten | Provincialeweg and Fort Werk IV
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 109 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 51
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Bunnik-Vechten | Provincialeweg
A modern fort and a Roman one stand within a couple of kilometres of each other here, and both exist because of the same river. Vechten, on the Kromme Rijn just east of Utrecht, was the Roman fort of Fectio, one of the best-known sites on the Lower Germanic frontier. It lay at a point where the Rhine split, with the branch that became the Vecht heading north, and that made it a perfect depot. Soldiers, grain, and building stone all went through here, and archaeologists have pulled a remarkable amount out of the ground, including altars, bronze statuettes and the debris of a busy harbour.
Read the complete Bunnik-Vechten | Provincialeweg write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Bunnik-Vechten | Provincialeweg is where the day begins. Next is Utrecht-Limes road | Zandweg.
2. Utrecht-Limes road | Zandweg
Two thousand years ago the Rhine marked the northern edge of the Roman Empire here, and along its southern bank the army built a chain of forts, watchtowers and a road to link them. In the western suburbs of Utrecht, in the new district of Leidsche Rijn and the old village of De Meern, that road has been found again under the fields, a gravel and clay embankment with ditches either side, and part of it can be traced along the street called Zandweg. Nearby, at Castellum Hoge Woerd, the outline of a Roman fort has been rebuilt in a modern form, with a museum, a theatre and an observatory, and a flat-bottomed Roman river barge, found here in 1997 almost intact and complete with the cargo and personal belongings of its skipper, is on display. The Lower German Limes became a World Heritage site in 2021.
Read the complete Utrecht-Limes road | Zandweg write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Utrecht-Limes road | Zandweg comes up about 17 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fort Werk IV.
3. Fort Werk IV
The Gooi, the area east of Amsterdam around Bussum, Naarden and Hilversum, is one of the few places in the western Netherlands with hills, if you can call low sandy ridges hills. It is a region of heathland, woods and wealthy villages. On the edge of Bussum, close to the fortified town of Naarden, stands Fort Werk IV, a small fortification that was part of the New Dutch Waterline and the Defence Line of Amsterdam, and is now part of the UNESCO-listed Dutch Water Defence Lines.
Read the complete Fort Werk IV write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 55 km into the recorded legs you reach Fort Werk IV. Next is back through Utrecht-Limes road | Zandweg.
4. back through Utrecht-Limes road | Zandweg
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Utrecht-Limes road | Zandweg write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Utrecht-Limes road | Zandweg, late in the day. Next is Bunnik-Vechten | Provincialeweg.
5. Bunnik-Vechten | Provincialeweg
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Bunnik-Vechten | Provincialeweg write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Bunnik-Vechten | Provincialeweg. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Bunnik-Vechten | Provincialeweg to Utrecht-Limes road | Zandweg
Bunnik-Vechten | Provincialeweg → Utrecht-Limes road | Zandweg is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Utrecht-Limes road | Zandweg to Fort Werk IV
Utrecht-Limes road | Zandweg → Fort Werk IV is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort Werk IV to back through Utrecht-Limes road | Zandweg
Fort Werk IV → back through Utrecht-Limes road | Zandweg is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Utrecht-Limes road | Zandweg to Bunnik-Vechten | Provincialeweg
back through Utrecht-Limes road | Zandweg → Bunnik-Vechten | Provincialeweg is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.