Tree Walks in The Hague

The Hague has 5 walks that string its ancient trees together on foot, from 0.73 km to 2.2 km, past 26 trees in all. Each one is an afternoon rather than a hike, and every tree on it has a story worth the stop.

The order is ours, worked out from where the trees actually stand; the walking distance is the real one along streets and paths where we have been able to route it, and a straight line between trunks where we have not. Nothing here is a signposted trail.

Centrum north

7 trees · about 2.2 km · 29 min on foot

Begins at The Bezuidenhoutseweg Oak (Pedunculate Oak (Quercus robur)) and ends at The Bald Cypress of Paleistuin.

Leidschendam-Voorburg south

6 trees · about 1.05 km · 13 min on foot

Begins at The Chestnut of Park Arentsburg (Horse Chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum)) and ends at The Westvlietweg Plane.

Haagse Hout

5 trees · about 1.82 km · 22 min on foot

Begins at The Veteran Linden of Clingendael (Common Lime (Tilia x europaea)) and ends at The Van Hogenhoucklaan Beech.

Leidschendam-Voorburg north

4 trees · about 0.73 km · 9 min on foot

Begins at The Copper Beech at the Voorburg Cemetery Gate (Copper Beech (Fagus sylvatica f. purpurea)) and ends at The Stone Bench Beech of Juliana en Bernardpark.

Centrum south

4 trees · about 1.4 km · 16 min on foot

Begins at The Planes of the Grote Kerk (London Plane (Platanus x acerifolia)) and ends at The Hungarian Oaks of Huijgenspark.

All of these stand in The Hague, where we map 30 remarkable trees in total. Or walk somewhere else: Alicante · Alkmaar · Amersfoort · Amsterdam · Arnhem · Assen

Over 1,900 old trees worth the walk