Distance (km) | Location | Direction |
0 | Koopmansplein | Face Vanderveen and make a right turn into Gedempte Singel |
0.1 | Gedempte Singel | Almost immediately left into Weiersloop by "roundabout" and ABN AMRO |
0.14 | Weiersloop | At restaurant tables, turn right into Markt |
0.28 | Markt | Cross to right hand side of the canal. The road is called "Vaart N.Z.". This is a bicycle road, where bicycles have priority over cars. |
0.9 | Vaart N.Z. | New bridge. Continue beside canal. |
1.7 | Vaart N.Z. | Canal turns to the right. Continue towards bridge with blue arches |
2.1 | Vaart N.Z. | Boemerang cafe on right. |
2.25 | Blue bridge | Go under bridge with blue arches, then right just before the lifting bridge and canal. |
2.5 | Bike Path | At junction with road, next to second bridge, go straight on and continue with canal on your left. |
5.2 | Bike Path | Go under bridge, continue by canal |
6.7 | Bike Path | Go through underpass. Then turn left at the T junction and keep left. Cross the canal alongside the road |
7 | Bike Path | Take the first right turn after crossing the canal onto Messchenpad. Continue riding on this side of the canal. |
8.3 | Bike Path | At the bicycle / foot bridge, cross back to the other side of the canal. Turn left at the end of the bridge to continue in the same direction as before along the other side of the canal in front of houses. |
9 | Steigermesschien | At the round building, turn right and ride with the marina on your left. We ride all the way around the Marina, turning left immediately after it, and then crossing a wooden bridge to continue in the same direction alongside the canal as before. Sternmesschen. |
9.8 | End of road | At the end of the road near the junction of two canals we continue on a cycle path which starts on our left. The cycle path takes us around a right hand corner. Two bridges are visible in the distance. |
10.9 | Bike Path | The first bridge we come to is a wooden lifting bridge. Cross this bridge and go straight on using a minor road at the end which leads directly away from the canal. |
12 | Loon | We enter the village of Loon, which has cobbled roads, and turn left which is sign-posted towards Rolde. |
12.3 | Crossroads | At the crossroads there is a cafe on the left "De Herberg Van Loon". We turn right towards Assen. |
12.6 | End of Loon | At the end of Loon join the cycle path on the right hand side of the road. |
14.1 | Cycle Path | A roundabout becomes visible in front of us. Look out for a minor path on the left called Dijkerveldpad. This is signposted to Rolde. Note that some cars do use this path for access. |
14.7 | Dijkerveldpad | Pass the parking, and continue straight then turn left onto the path which parallels the road. |
14.9 | Junction | At the cycle path junction, take the right path, which continues next to the road and is signposted for Rolde. This leads into a small wood. |
15.4 | T junction | At the T junction turn right and go through an underpass. At the other end of the underpass turn left. |
15.9 | Second underpass |
16 | Homeruslaan | At the minor road, turn left. This is signposted towards Assen Station |
16.1 | Homeruslaan | At the junction with Herodotuslaan, turn left into that road. |
16.8 | Herodotuslaan | Ride past housing on the right, then on the left and right, and after passing a pond on the right, look out for a left turn onto the Uitkamp cycle path. This is signposted towards Rolde. |
17.5 | Uitkamp | At the road junction, turn right. Ignore the almost immediate cycle path on the left and continue on the road through Schieven and Anreep. |
18.9 | Anreep | At the end of the village of Anreep, look out for a right turn onto another minor road called Diepstroeten. |
19.9 | Diepstroeten | Our route goes past some fields and rises towards a main road. We won't go onto the main road, but do use the same bridge over the railway. |
20 | Diepstroeten | Optional detour to the memorial to the crew of a Lancaster Bomber which crashed here during World War II. |
20.9 | Junction | Junction with "Graswijk" next to a bridge. Cross the road and turn right on the minor access road (which doubles as cycle path). |
21.5 | Graswijk | Ride towards the large junction, but stick to the minor access road and follow it around to the left in the direction of the TT track. We are now parallel with with the ringroad: Europaweg-Zuid |
22.2 | Europaweg-Zuid | At the junction with Haarweg, cross over and turn left. Signs show this as the route to the TT track. This path is called De Boskamp. |
22.8 | De Boskamp | Carry on in a straight line. Do not take the right hand turns. However, when the cycle path appears on the right in the same direction do take this and continue beneath two bridges. |
| De Haar | Just after the bridges is a the sight of the Verkeerspark on the left. This is a good place to visit with children. |
23.7 | De Haar | Just before the TT track itself there take the right turn onto a minor road called Witterhaar. |
25.4 | Witterhaar | Restaurant on left then a turn right onto a cycle path signposted towards Assen. |
25.9 | Cycle Path | Follow this cycle path until you meet a junction by the road. Turn left and go through Witten. |
26.4 | Cycle Path | At the end of Witten, look out for a cyclepath on the other side of the road. Follow this, sticking to the tarmac pathto the left with a rough track next to it. |
27.2 | Cycle Path | The path enters some woods and then departs from the track. At a junction with a mushroom sign we turn right (even though this isn't shown as the direction to anything). |
27.3 | Cycle Path | The path comes out onto a service road. Immediately turn left onto another cycle path which passes to the left of a fishing lake. |
27.9 | Cycle Path Jct | There is a cycle path junction next to a roundabout. Turn left here, cross the traffic and continue on the cycle path next to Prof. Prakkeweg. Keep to this path until we get to the canal. |
28.4 | Cycle Path | At the canal, next to a bridge, turn right to continue with the canal on our left |
29.1 | Junction | Continue straight on using the cycle path with the canal on our left. |
29.7 | Bridge | Continue on, with the canal on our left. |
30 | Blue Bridge | We're back to Vaart. Cross the canal using the cycle bridge. Stop at Boemerang if you want a snack, or turn right and ride along Vaart N.Z. back to the centre. |
32.2 | End of canal | Cross the road and go into Markt. At the end of Markt, turn left into Weiersloop and then right. You are now at |
32.4 | Koopmansplein | End of ride. |