The lighthouse, vineyard, farm shop, arable farming, beautiful canals, grazing cattle; the in all respects varied Kuierlattenroute ‘Vuurtorenpad’ will pleasantly surprise you! You walk here in a historically interesting area: partly on new land, partly in the outer dike beach area before reclamation. If you look closely, you can see it in the difference between clay and sandy soil and the diversity of crops that goes with it.
The Lighthouse Path could also have been called ‘the old beach route’. This is because you pass the Flevoland provincial border and then walk in the outer dike beach area before reclamation. In no other Kuierlattenroute can you see so well the difference between the old and new land and the diversity of crops that goes with it.
Of course, the l…
The lighthouse, vineyard, farm shop, arable farming, beautiful canals, grazing cattle; the in all respects varied Kuierlattenroute ‘Vuurtorenpad’ will pleasantly surprise you! You walk here in a historically interesting area: partly on new land, partly in the outer dike beach area before reclamation. If you look closely, you can see it in the difference between clay and sandy soil and the diversity of crops that goes with it.
The Lighthouse Path could also have been called ‘the old beach route’. This is because you pass the Flevoland provincial border and then walk in the outer dike beach area before reclamation. In no other Kuierlattenroute can you see so well the difference between the old and new land and the diversity of crops that goes with it.
Of course, the lighthouse after which the path is named also makes this route special, as do the vineyard, the farm shop and the Austrian cattle.
Starting point: the car park along the Kanaalweg, just outside of Blokzijl
Route: 10 km
Vuurtorenpad is one of the ‘Op de Kuierlatten routes’. In cooperation with Landschapsbeheer Flevoland, a number of farmers have opened up their farms to walk on their plots. Strolling through farmland, so not on paved paths, but along dykes, across fields, through orchards and forests and past cultural-historical sights.
