Utrecht, Netherlands · Europe
Veenendaal is worth a stop: 10 minutes from Ederveen, 20km from Hoge Veluwe National Park.
Veenendaal is in Utrecht, Netherlands, with about 61,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Ederveen, about 4 km away.
Veenendaal (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈveːnə(n)ˌdaːl] ) is a municipality and a town in central Netherlands, located in the province of Utrecht. Veenendaal is the only population centre within its administrative borders. The municipality had a population of 70,000 inhabitants on 8 August 2024 and covers an area of 19.72Read more
km2 (7.61 sq mi).
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Within an hour or so of Veenendaal: Kröller-Müller Museum (19 km), Hoge Veluwe National Park (20 km), Rietveld Schröder House (29 km), Dom Tower of Utrecht (31 km).
The nearest famous roads are Houtribdijk, Afsluitdijk and Brouwersdam.
Veenendaal is in Utrecht, Netherlands, about 4 km from Ederveen.
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museum
Museum deep inside Hoge Veluwe National Park holding the world's second-largest Van Gogh collection plus a 25-hectare sculpture garden with Rodin, Moore and Dubuffet; free white bicycles carry you there through the park.
19 km · about 20 min drive
national park
Cycle free white bikes across heath, dune and forest to the Kröller-Müller museum's Van Goghs in this vast wild park.
20 km · about 25 min drive
museum
Gerrit Rietveld's radical 1924 Utrecht house, the purest built statement of De Stijl with its sliding walls and Mondrian palette: UNESCO-listed and visitable on pre-booked tours.
29 km · about 35 min drive
cathedral
The Netherlands' tallest church tower at 112 metres, standing detached from its cathedral in central Utrecht.
31 km · about 35 min drive
photogenic
Rolling heathland hills of Veluwezoom National Park reached by a scenic drive up the Beekhuizenseweg, in late August the moors turn purple, and misty sunrises here are the most photographed in the Netherlands.
32 km · about 35 min drive
castle
The Netherlands' largest castle, a turreted neo-Gothic fairytale with moats and formal gardens near Utrecht.
40 km · about 45 min drive
landmark
The best-preserved star fortification town in Europe, a double-moated six-pointed star of 17th-century ramparts enclosing a grid of gabled streets, 25 minutes from Amsterdam yet ignored by most itineraries.
40 km · about 45 min drive
cathedral
The Netherlands' finest Gothic cathedral bristles with grotesque flying-buttress carvings in Hieronymus Bosch's home city.
42 km · about 50 min drive
3 named roads, passes and coastal drives within 150km.
April to October
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