This walking route through the Waterloopbos passes a large number of watercourse models. The Delta Works were designed here, as well as the ports of Rotterdam, Lagos, IJmuiden, Istanbul and Bangkok. For years, the Waterloopkundig Laboratorium conducted research in the Waterloopbos and mimicked reality with water, dams, dams and wave machines.
Now nature has slowly taken possession of the watercourse models in the forest again. Old water channels, weirs and sluices are overgrown with bushes and plants. Star moss covers banks, ferns surround the contours of old harbours and silver-grey willows grow in the water.
Animals such as kingfishers and dragonflies feel perfectly at home in the Waterloopbos with all that flowing water. This makes the Waterloopbos a unique forest through the interaction of nature and technology.
The walk is about 3 kilometres long. You start at the visitor centre in The Trial Lab// and follow the white arrows.
