Hoge Veluwe National Park

De Hoge Veluwe is a 55-square-kilometre expanse of heath, drifting sand and woodland in Gelderland, shaped during the last ice age on the largest terminal moraine in the Netherlands. It is one of the country’s largest continuous nature reserves, and an unusual one: the businessman Anton Kröller and his wife Helene Kröller-Müller assembled it as a private estate from 1909, leaving behind Berlage’s St Hubertus hunting lodge and the art collection that became the Kröller-Müller Museum, still standing inside the park. Bicycles are free to borrow at the gates. Red deer and wild boar move through the woods at first light, and the heath turns purple in late summer.