Overview Routes
Kaag en Braassem is ideal to explore by foot, bike or boat. The best routes can be found here.
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Braassemermeer route
De route will take you through a varied landscape of ancient peat polders, reclaimed land, lakes and horticultural enclaves.
Cycling Route along the Mills around Kaag & Braassem
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.
Monuments Route Kaag & Braassem
This cycling route (which you can walk too) is published as part of the Open Monuments Weekend 2020.
Tour the Colorific Splendor in the Bollenstreek
Breathtaking ride from Route.nl through the Bollenstreek. Starts in Roelofarendsveen.
Farmer and Cheese Cycle route
Rondom Kaas & Braassem wants to stimulate young and old to hit the road and look for local produce, because cheese from the area taste absolute best, of course.
Cycle & Food Route
Get on your bike and ride the Cycle & Food route through the ancient Boterhuispolder and the polder of Kaag & Braassem. While cycling, you can collect your own meal. This route will take you along various locations with a shop, where you can buy homemade or local products,
Mills and Lakes Route
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.
Along historical places and object in Woubrugge and Hoogmade
This route is accompanied by a series of 20 information signs at the remarkable historical buildings, places and objects in Hoogmade and Woubrugge.
Dutch Villages Route
Cycling around Kaag en Braassem is a real voyage of discovery through an authentic Dutch polder landscape via characteristic Dutch villages.
The Kaag Route
Bike along the natural banks of the Kagerplassen and Braassemermeer.
Mills and More
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.
Mill Route Leiden and Kagerplassen
A land drained by many mills.
Follow the trail of the Veen Mermaid
Along flourishing polder sagas about tulips, farmers and gardeners.
Monuments Walking Route Kaag & Braassem
This walking route (which you can cycle too) is published as part of the Open Monuments Weekend 2021, but can be walked at any other time. This way you are able to visit the monuments on your own occasion.
Dutch Lakes Cycling Route
Via this route along (almost all) northern lakes of South-Holland, you’ll get a good impression of what the water and landscape of the Rhine and Peat region has to offer in terms of history, natural beauty and pleasure.
Water Works Route
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.
Cycle along monuments
This cycling route (which you can walk too) is published as part of the Open Monuments Weekend 2021.
Between Leiden, Kaag & Braassem
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.
Delicacies from the region
There are a lot of farmer shops to visit in Kaag & Braassem. As we are curious about them and where to find them, our editor Alice got on her bike herself. Together with her husband, she is in for a nice surprise. They cycled to Woubrugge, Hoogmade and Roelofarendsveen and discovered lots of delicacies from the region.
Leimuiden - Woubrugge Lap
Within an hour and a half, you can cycle around the Braassemermeer and will pass the villages around it.