Wandelbos
Image: Evelien Oerlemans
The Wandelbos is a beautiful park forest waiting for you cozily between the center of Tilburg and the Reeshof. The park more than lives up to its name. This is pre-eminently the forest for a wonderful walk.
Monumental trees
The Wandelbos was designed in 1917 by renowned landscape architect Leonard Springer, who also designed the Wilhelminapark and the Leijpark in Tilburg. Like the Wilhelminapark, the Wandelbos has several striking trees such as sequoias, giant sequoias, and bald cypress trees. The rhododendron valley is also highly recommended. There are few places in Tilburg where the flower colors almost blow you out of your walking shoes.
Special furnishings
All kinds of unusual plants from Japan and America, Springer brought to the park. But his 'hand' is perhaps best recognized in the shape of the park. All the main paths form spacious arches in and across the central pond. Typical of a late 19th-century romantic park. And romantic it certainly is. For children, who generally understand nothing about romance, there is a large playground and a petting zoo.
Guus Meeuwis
Not only we are fans of the Wandelbos. Guus Meeuwis also fell in love. In the song Neem Je Steeds Mijn Hart Weer Mee he sings of the park: "I know a bench in the Wandelbos and the world stands still there." Which bench that is, we don't know. But try them all.
Weird snouts
As in nature reserve De Oude Warande, a strange snout roams here: the Siberian ground squirrel. These non-native animals escaped from the Tilburg Zoo that was once located on this property. The descendants of these fugitives are still happily gnawing away in the woods.
The spot
It's hard to choose from all those beautiful spots. But the spot of the Wandelbos is the bridge over the big pond. A wonderfully romantic spot in an equally romantic forest.
Parking
- At the height of Reeshofdijk 18
- Zwartvenseweg, south of the railroad crossing
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