Westerbork Path part 2

Hiked 10.8 kilometres from Diemen to Weesp.

The Westerbork path slowly leaves the crowds of the Amsterdam region and makes way for more nature. You walk through the Gaasperpark and along the Gaasp, one of the most beautiful waters just outside Amsterdam. Until you walk to Weesp, the fortified city on the Vecht and city of mills and cacao.

Hike report

Continuing in Diemen

In the Netherlands the great trails are marked with red and white. When overlapping trails happen than the name of the path is printed in the white part. For the Westerbork path a barbed wire symbol is used.

Diemer forrest

Diemer Forest is a young park that was planted in the 1990s in the open Gemeenschapspolder. During the construction, they found tree trunks from 3,000-year-old bog oaks in the soil!

Towards Weesp

Railway bridge

This bridge was the first one built in 1973. It was designed by K. van der Gaast (1923-1993). In 1995, they doubled the tracks and built an identical bridge on the north side. This bridge has been welded, and the older one sounds different. There is also a bicycle bridge on the north side. Which I used to cross the canal.

Into Weesp

The train station of Weesp is the finish line for this part.

Map

Details

More info

• Trail details (Dutch)
• Diemen
• Weesp