't Zwanemeer

17th stage of the popular long-distance hiking trail Hünenweg Shortly after Gieten, the route meanders through a small forest, the Zwanemeerbos, with 26 burial mounds. In addition, you will soon reach the Drentsche Aa National Park, a romantically meandering glacial valley full of heather and sand dunes, alder fringes, Eschdörfer with Angern and hay meadows that color buttercups and sorrel yellow and red in spring. Finally you pass the pretty village of Anloo. The path leads past a large...

Tour through Gieten, on asphalt. Ideal for a run or an evening walk.

The Drenthepad is a regional path (SP6) with which you make a loop of 330 kilometers through the province. The areas between Emmen, Groningen and Steenwijk are filled with national parks that you cross. You also get a lot of history of the province. The route is marked with yellow/red stripes and is divided into 18 stages. With the stage between Gieten and Borger you walk on the edges of the Drentsche Aa National Park. You cross the village of Gasselte from where you enter the nature...

This is the official mountain bike route of Gieten-Gasselte, a challenging route through the woods and over the Drouwenerveld. The Gasselterveld is also located in the Gieten forests, a body of water around which you drive on beautiful singletracks. Here you also get to choose some steep climbs and descents. The majority of the route consists of singletrack, filled with bends so that you can keep the speed nice and high. The route is marked with red mountain bike signs. There are two...

Quiet circular walk through the woods of Gieten. Starting at the many sand pits, today filled with water, you walk through a variety of landscapes. The moors of Jonkers Heide take you to the woods, and on the edge of the woods you walk through the grasslands where you can just see the Ankers Diep river.