Sand dunes
Open.
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De Hoge Veluwe is a Dutch national park in the province of Gelderland, near the cities of Ede, Wageningen, Arnhem and Apeldoorn, about 11 km northwest of Arnhem in a straight line. It covers about 55 square kilometres of heathland, sand dunes and woodland. The park lies in the Veluwe, the largest terminal moraine in the Netherlands, and most of its landscape was shaped in the last ice age; it is one of the largest continuous nature reserves in the country. The businessman Anton Kröller and his wife Helene Kröller-Müller founded it as a private estate in 1909, built a hunting lodge designed by the architect Hendrik Petrus Berlage, and the park now holds the Kröller-Müller art museum. The scenery shifts between open white sand dunes, heaths that turn purple in late summer, woods of pine, oak and beech that colour in autumn, and calm ponds reflecting the sky. Red deer, wild boar and roe deer live here. Visitors get around on the free white bicycles available at the entrances and centre, on a long network of cycling and walking paths. Many visit the Kröller-Müller Museum and its sculpture garden, and autumn and early morning are the best times to see wildlife.
Open.
Purple in summer.
Inside the park.
Near Otterlo and Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands
On the free white bicycles.
Autumn and late summer.