Camping Het Waldhoorn

City slickers and anyone who’s just looking for a bit of calm will be equally chuffed around here… There’s a little distance between the site and noisy urban areas, so things are quite peaceful, but the cities of Zutphen, Deventer and Apeldoorn are all within half an hour’s drive when something more busy beckons. Quiet days are easily achieved a little over half an hour away on the trails and among the markets of Hoge Veluwe National Park (making an exception for the hunting horns of the Overlopers), and there’s hiking, biking and horseback trekking just over an hour away among the red deer and wild boar of Veluwezoom National Park. Get back to civilisation with museum visits and boat tours in Zutphen 15 minutes from base, or head to Deventer for ice skating, watersports and a toy museum. If slightly longer drives work, head to Apeldoorn where there’s a zoo, theme park, palace and ape park. Have the Zutphen boat tours whet (wet?) appetites for water-based days? There’s an outdoor pool complex 10 minutes from the site – with canoes to rent here too – and an indoor pool 15 minutes away. If you need something more adrenaline fuelled, cry off and make tracks for the ‘coasters and rides at Walibi Holland theme park, an hour from base.