Why this ride
A 120 km round trip from Veldhuizen - roughly 1 h 51 in the saddle. The stops in between: Fort Werk IV, Fort along the Pampus and back through Fort Werk IV.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Utrecht-Hoge Woerd and Fort along the Pampus
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 120 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. Utrecht-Hoge Woerd
The Romans left their ships behind. In the 1990s, when the new suburb of Leidsche Rijn was being built on farmland west of Utrecht, excavators found the remains of several Roman river barges buried in the clay at De Meern, flat-bottomed craft that carried supplies along the Rhine to the soldiers on the frontier. Close to them, archaeologists uncovered a fort, called Hoge Woerd, which is now one of the best-known pieces of the Lower Germanic Limes. Part of its walls and gate towers has been reconstructed on the original foundations, and it stands incongruously among the houses of a modern housing estate, with a museum and a field where people can see the layout.
Read the complete Utrecht-Hoge Woerd write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Utrecht-Hoge Woerd is where the day begins. Next is Fort Werk IV.
2. 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
Fort Werk IV comes up about 41 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fort along the Pampus.
3. Fort along the Pampus
Out in the open water of the IJmeer, a few kilometres off the old fortified town of Muiden, a low circular fortress sits on an artificial island. This is Pampus, one of more than forty forts that make up the Defence Line of Amsterdam, a ring of fortifications built around the city in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The idea was simple and very Dutch: in case of attack, large areas of land around the city would be flooded to a depth that was too shallow for boats and too deep for soldiers to wade, and the forts would guard the roads, railways and dykes that crossed the flooded zone. Pampus guarded the approach to Amsterdam by water. The line was listed by UNESCO in 1996.
Read the complete Fort along the Pampus write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 61 km into the recorded legs you reach Fort along the Pampus. Next is back through Fort Werk IV.
4. back through Fort Werk IV
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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
back through Fort Werk IV, late in the day. Next is Utrecht-Hoge Woerd.
5. Utrecht-Hoge Woerd
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Utrecht-Hoge Woerd write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Utrecht-Hoge Woerd. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Utrecht-Hoge Woerd to Fort Werk IV
Utrecht-Hoge Woerd → Fort Werk IV is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort Werk IV to Fort along the Pampus
Fort Werk IV → Fort along the Pampus is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort along the Pampus to back through Fort Werk IV
Fort along the Pampus → back through Fort Werk IV is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Fort Werk IV to Utrecht-Hoge Woerd
back through Fort Werk IV → Utrecht-Hoge Woerd is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.