With its polder landscape, distinctive architectural heritage and culture, Heerhugowaard offers several ways to shape your stay. Park van Luna offers a different experience from a historic pumping station, a monumental polder road or a walk through a distinctive neighborhood. You can organize your time around the themes that interest you most.

Landscape and Activities

The 180-hectare Park van Luna is a recreation area on the outskirts of Heerhugowaard, bringing together land and water. The city is surrounded by meadows, reed beds and a high ring dike. Together, these features create a landscape in which water, open spaces and the character of the polder play important roles.

Park van Luna is also home to a disc golf course, which is mowed and maintained weekly. As maintenance conditions can change, check the current situation before your visit. Heerhugowaard also has Skeef’s cable water ski lift. This gives you a choice of different activities: the course in the recreation area and cable water skiing as a separate option.

The Stolpenroute offers another perspective. This cycling tour around Heerhugowaard passes monumental historic stolp farmhouses. These farmhouses give the route a clear architectural focus. If you choose activities based on a particular theme, you can combine cycling here with views of historic farm architecture.

Polder History and Architecture

The Het Oude Gemaal Polder Museum is housed in a former polder pumping station built in 1877 on Huygendijk in Heerhugowaard. The building thus connects a specific historic site with the museum’s theme: its former function as a pumping station gives the Polder Museum a direct architectural link to the past. The year also places the building in its historical context.

Middenweg is a monumental polder road and the central route through the Heerhugowaard polder. This adds a broader perspective to the history of individual buildings: the road is both a prominent transport route and an expression of the polder’s spatial layout.

In the Dionysiuskerk, stained-glass windows depict the seven sacraments. This clearly defined religious subject adds its own focus on art and church history to the pumping station and polder road.

Architecture Walk and Neighborhood

The Stad van de Zon neighborhood is in the south of Heerhugowaard. The Stad van de Zon architecture walk starts at Brandpunt, the center of the neighborhood. The walk provides information about the distinctive emissions-neutral neighborhood of the same name. This part of exploring the area focuses on architecture and the idea of an emissions-neutral neighborhood, while the Stolpenroute showcases the historic farmhouses.

Weekly Market and Culture

A weekly market is held at Raadhuisplein on Mondays from 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. If you plan to visit, check the hours beforehand, as the weekly schedule may change. The market offers a specific time to anchor the start of your week.

Cool kunst en cultuur is a cultural venue in Heerhugowaard. Its program may change, so check current event dates if you want to include a specific cultural event in your stay. The market and cultural program offer different ways to plan: Mondays matter for the weekly market, while the venue’s schedule depends on the individual event.

For an overview of the wider trip: Heerhugowaard.