Routen

Aad and Reinier, initiators of the polder shopping bike trail, offer along with Kaasboerderij van Harten (a cheese dairy), the Vosseburch and Aspergehof Noordam (an asparagus farm) a special local products cycle route. An amazing bike ride that will take you along the most beautiful farms in the region.

The bicycle route ‘Mills and More’ will take you alongside no less than 20 mills and other places of interest in and around Kaag en Braassem.

Bike along the natural banks of the Kagerplassen and Braassemermeer.

This cycling route (which you can walk too) is published as part of the Open Monuments Weekend 2020 because this event cannot take place in its usual form, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This way you are able to visit the monuments on your own occasion.

​Cycling around Kaag en Braassem is a real voyage of discovery through an authentic Dutch polder landscape via characteristic Dutch villages.

You can discover the rural area between the beautiful lakes Braassemermeer and the Kagerplassen within an hour. The route will take you along the picturesque villages of Roelofarendsveen, Rijpwetering, Nieuwe Wetering and Oude Wetering. you can start the bicycle route at any point of the cycle network.

​This varied cycling route does not only lead you through the villages around Kaag & Braassem and Braassemermeer, but also through the historic inner city of Leiden.

​The polders around Kagerplassen and Braassemermeer belong to the Utrecht-Hollands peat-meadows area. Though the lots look very different here than anywhere else in the area.

Within an hour and a half, you can cycle around the Braassemermeer and will pass the villages around it.

Through the ages, both Leimuiden and Rijnsaterwoude delivered battles against the water of the Hollandse Plassen (Dutch Lakes). This bicycle route will take you along several water works, the remains of this remarkable history.