6-day Pieterpad Walking Holiday - Ommen to Vorden

Travel to the Hanseatic town of Ommen, on the Vecht river, on your own. After checking in, you can always explore the town a bit.

Start this section of the Pieterpad through the Vecht and Beneden-Regge basins, a hilly part of Overijssel. This is evident from the Ommerland watchtower at the top the Besthemerberg (mountain 34 m high). Climb the tower and enjoy the beautiful view over the Vecht valley!

Other Dutch 'mountains' on the route include the Archemerberg (78m) and the adjacent Lemelerberg (43,8 m). In this undulating landscape, pass the 'Fat Stone' boulder and walk along the juniper bushes on the Lemelerberg. Admire the monumental Lion in Park 1813 and reach Hellendoorn via the wooded Eelerberg estate. 

Challenge: 20 km / 12.4 mi

Today, traverse the Sallandse Heuvelrug, a moraine stretching from Ommen to Holten. This is Overijssel at its highest, where soft hills are covered by forests and heaths. Via the Hellendoornse Berg, walk towards 't Ravijn. View the 'Stardust' artwork here, installed after a brief gold rush in the past. Pause at the poignant monument commemorating the Twilhaar forced labor camp. Enjoy the nice panoramas atop the Haarlerberg and Holterberg and walk through the Noetselenberg estate to finally enter Holten.

Challenge: 15,5 km / 9.6 mi

Leave Holten via the hamlet Beuseberg, located on the outskirts of the Overijsselse moraine. Follow a stately beech lane near the Schipbeek brook, cross the water, and enter the region of the province of Gelderland called the Achterhoek with his typical farms. Be sure to visit the beautiful Verwolde manor with its pleasant tea garden. This estate also houses the so-called 'Dikke Boom' (Fat tree), the largest oak tree in the Netherlands. Further along the route, before reaching Laren, you will pass De Binnenhof, an 18th-century rectory expanded into a beautiful villa in the 19th century.

Challenge: 15 km / 9.3 mi

This day starts with a walk-through Groot Dochteren, a unique hamlet with scattered farms. Cross the Twente canal and the Berkel river on your way to the Velthorst estate, with its magnificent viewpoint over the Kienveen area. Then stroll through an extensive heathland where conifer forests were planted after 1920. Arrive at the stately manor Het Enzerinck, built in neoclassical style in 1826. If you have time and energy left upon reaching Vorden, consider visiting the nearby beautiful Hanseatic city of Zutphen, just 9 minutes away by train!

Challenge: 16 km / 9.9 mi

After breakfast, the third part of the Pieterpad ends here for you.