MTB route Lelystad
Green lung - Lelystad
How Flevoland flat? This route picks up hill after hill. How come Flevoland is only straight roads? This route meanders so much that it almost makes you dizzy. A good thirty kilometres of trails lie ahead of your studded tyres when you start this route through Lelystad's green lung. Along the way, you will climb a hundred metres in altitude. The course consists of three segments: the Zuigerplasbos in the north, the Gelderse Hout in the south, and the various urban forests in between. The route through the Zuigerplasbos is also signposted separately as a children's route.
If you start in the Zuigerplasbos, you are sow...
Green lung - Lelystad
How Flevoland flat? This route picks up hill after hill. How come Flevoland is only straight roads? This route meanders so much that it almost makes you dizzy. A good thirty kilometres of trails lie ahead of your studded tyres when you start this route through Lelystad's green lung. Along the way, you will climb a hundred metres in altitude. The course consists of three segments: the Zuigerplasbos in the north, the Gelderse Hout in the south, and the various urban forests in between. The route through the Zuigerplasbos is also signposted separately as a children's route.
If you start in the Zuigerplasbos, you're in the right place anyway. After all, this loop has everything that makes mountain biking so much fun. Climbs, descents, jumps, flowy single trails and beautiful nature. The woods surround the Zuigerplas, which was created by sand extraction for the construction of the dyke along the IJsselmeer. Every now and then you leave the forest to cycle with a view of the lake. But there are also more challenging features, such as a north shore and technical fence crossings. This loop is partly constructed with concrete granulate, making it super rideable all year round.
If you like a challenge, be sure to also grab the Bergbos. This forest lives up to its name with its short climbs, steep descents and some technical loops, marked with red arrows. There is continuous hard work to keep this route rideable all year round. In dry periods, this route is an excellent alternative to routes elsewhere in the country that are then too loose. In very wet conditions you will encounter some more muddy sections of track and in extreme cases there is a chance that some parts of the route may have to be closed.
There are three possible starting locations:
- Parking Gelderse Hout car park, 8212 PA in Lelystad (directly on Oostranddreef)
- Parking area Zuigerplasbos - Zuigerplasdreef, 8222 RA Lelystad
- Camping Buytenplaets Suydersee, Badweg 1, 8223 PA in Lelystad
More information can be found at: MTBroute.nl and MTB route Lelystad.
By the way, there is also a special children's MTB route; you can download it here.
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View panel 1. Zuigerplasbos
Viewing panel 1. Zuigerplasbos (Stop 2)
Lelystad is omgeven door groengebieden, die diep de stad binnendringen. Eén van de grote stadsbossen is het Zuigerplasbos.
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The adventure forest
The Belevenissenbos (Stop 3)
Ook voor kinderen heeft Lelystad genoeg te bieden! Het Belevenissenbos zorgt er als grootste speelbos van Nederland (!) voor dat je kind zich geen enkel moment hoeft te vervelen.
