Broek in Waterland: Volgermeer

Walk through the Volgermeerpolder

You walk with a path through the meadow to the Zuideinde of Broek in Waterland. You will arrive in the Volgermeerpolder.

The Volgermeerpolder is an excavated peat area that was used from 1927 as a landfill. The heavily contaminated landfill site was closed in 1980 and remediated from 2003. Since 2011 it has been set up as a nature reserve. It has become a green bird paradise.

After the Volgermeerpolder you walk back to Broek in Waterland. You walk along the Molengouw, the Burgemeester Peereboomweg and the Atjehgouw through rural areas. You walk along a path through the meadow along the Broekervaart back to Broek in Waterland.

shape

loop

length

9 km 480

location

Amsterdam, North Holland, The Netherlands

start / arrival

Moerland, Broek in Waterland

path

path:79%  road:20%  stairs:0% 

elevation

rise: 30m / fall: -30m
lowest: -4m / highest: 2m

 

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