The port route through the Waterloopbos woods

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Netherlands

Flevoland

Noordoostpolder

The port route through the Waterloopbos woods

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The port route through the Waterloopbos woods

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3.47km

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This short hike through the Waterloopbos forest is absolutely exciting and varied. No matter whether big or small, everyone has fun here. It starts at the parking lot on Voorsterweg. Here you dive into the forest and shortly afterwards you pass the visitor center. In addition to the café, there…

by Visit Flevoland

Last updated: April 29, 2025

Waypoints

Start point

Parking

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372 m

Deltagoot (Delta Flume)

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From the late 1970s to 2016, the Delta Flume was used to conduct research into all kinds of issues related to water in the Netherlands. Water behavior could be simulated, …

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866 m

Voorsterbeek

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Although artificially created, it is a beautiful stream.

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1.56 km

Marsa el Bregha – harbor expansion tested

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This test set-up was for the expansion of an important port in Libya.

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2.19 km

Willemstunnel test model (1970)

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The test model of the real Willemstunnel in the Nieuwe Maas in Rotterdam.

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2.64 km

Waterloop Forest

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Hundreds of studies have been done here on the behavior of water since the 1950s. You can find several scale models of this in the Waterloopbos.

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3.47 km

End point

Parking

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

1.64 km

965 m

500 m

287 m

Surfaces

1.18 km

739 m

722 m

334 m

243 m

172 m

Elevation

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Weather

Tuesday 13 October

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Comments

September 17, 2026,🇳🇱 Marknesse, Kraggenburg: Waterloopbos, "Lost Place" ehem. Niederländischen Forschungsgelände.

The Water Engineering Laboratory received assignments from all over the world. One of them was from Denmark, where there were coastal problems near the fishing village of Thyborøn. Over the years, more and more land had disappeared into the sea there. The question for the laboratory was: How can this coastal erosion be combated? For this purpose, the engineers built …

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January 4, 2023,Havenroute Waterloopbos Markenesse

A fun and educational route along research material that used to study wave movements in ports. Now the machines and setups have been given to nature as art, overgrown by plants.

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April 20, 2022,Kleine Runde im Waterloopbos

The Waterloopbos used to be a test site where large hydraulic engineering projects were modeled and tested before they were realised.

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August 31, 2023

This short hike through the Waterloopbos forest is absolutely exciting and varied. No matter whether big or small, everyone has fun here. It starts at the parking lot on Voorsterweg. Here you dive into the forest and shortly afterwards you pass the visitor center. In addition to the café, there is also

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