Why this ride
From Voorburg it runs 118 km to Voorburg; allow about 1 h 47 of riding. It goes by way of Valkenburg-De Woerd | South, Fort near Heemstede and back through Valkenburg-De Woerd | South.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Voorburg-Arentsburg and Fort near Heemstede
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 118 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 47
- 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.
Scenic road chapters
Dutch Flower Route
Speed drops and stays down. Park rather than crawl through. 18 km through ground somebody thought worth listing. The road passes it rather than bypassing it.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 22 km
- Named road
- Dutch Flower Route
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Voorburg-Arentsburg
Under the suburbs between The Hague and Delft lie the remains of Forum Hadriani, the northernmost Roman town on the continent, founded in the early second century AD and named after the emperor Hadrian. At Arentsburg, a country estate in Voorburg, excavations revealed streets, houses, a harbour and a canal, the Fossa Corbulonis, dug by Roman soldiers to link the Rhine and the Meuse. The site is part of the Frontiers of the Roman Empire, Lower German Limes World Heritage Site, listed in 2021, which follows the Rhine frontier through the Netherlands and Germany.
Read the complete Voorburg-Arentsburg write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Voorburg-Arentsburg is where the day begins. Next is Valkenburg-De Woerd | South.
2. Valkenburg-De Woerd | South
For a few hundred years, the mouth of the Rhine was the edge of the world. West of Leiden, the river that once spilled into the North Sea along the Old Rhine channel marked the frontier of the Roman Empire, and the legions kept a line of forts along its banks. Valkenburg, a small village near the coast north of The Hague, was one of them, and the site of a fort known by the name Praetorium Agrippinae, which is the Roman name that archaeologists give to the Valkenburg fort. It sat on the south bank of the river, with a harbour, a bridge or two, and a settlement of traders and soldiers around it, and the finds from the area include timbers, shoes, and tools preserved in the damp clay.
Read the complete Valkenburg-De Woerd | South write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Valkenburg-De Woerd | South comes up about 22 km into the recorded legs. Next is Fort near Heemstede.
3. Fort near Heemstede
Between Haarlem and the bulb fields of the Dutch coast, near the town of Heemstede and the hamlet of De Glip, lies a squat, grassy fort surrounded by a moat. This is the Fort near Heemstede, built around the turn of the twentieth century as part of the Defence Line of Amsterdam, a ring of forts, dykes and flooding zones around the city, and now part of the UNESCO-listed Dutch Water Defence Lines.
Read the complete Fort near Heemstede write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 59 km into the recorded legs you reach Fort near Heemstede. Next is back through Valkenburg-De Woerd | South.
4. back through Valkenburg-De Woerd | South
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Valkenburg-De Woerd | South write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Valkenburg-De Woerd | South, late in the day. Next is Voorburg-Arentsburg.
5. Voorburg-Arentsburg
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Voorburg-Arentsburg write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Voorburg-Arentsburg. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Voorburg-Arentsburg to Valkenburg-De Woerd | South
Voorburg-Arentsburg → Valkenburg-De Woerd | South is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Valkenburg-De Woerd | South to Fort near Heemstede
Valkenburg-De Woerd | South → Fort near Heemstede is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Fort near Heemstede to back through Valkenburg-De Woerd | South
Fort near Heemstede → back through Valkenburg-De Woerd | South is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Valkenburg-De Woerd | South to Voorburg-Arentsburg
back through Valkenburg-De Woerd | South → Voorburg-Arentsburg is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.