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Boskoop

Boskoop is a town in the province of South Holland.

Boskoop
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The place

Boskoop is a town in the province of South Holland. It was a separate municipality until it merged into Alphen aan den Rijn in 2014. The town had a population of 15,050 in 2012 and covers an area of 7.29 km2 (2.81 sq mi) of which 1.39 km2 (0.54 sq mi) is water. It's the world's biggest joined floriculture area.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Boskoop

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Archeon

    Archeon is an archeological open air and living museum in Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands.

    5.4 km · historical theme park in the Netherlands · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Boskoop

Airports
Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 19 km · Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 28 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 85 km
Stations
Boskoop railway station, 1.2 km · Waddinxveen Noord railway station, 1.2 km · Waddinxveen railway station, 2.4 km · Waddinxveen Triangel railway station, 4.4 km · Boskoop Snijdelwijk railway station, 300 m
  • Eindhoven → Boskoop
    90 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · €12–17
  • Maastricht → Boskoop
    154 km · quickest by road, 3h 26m · €22–31
  • Groningen → Boskoop
    181 km · quickest by road, 3h 44m · €23–32
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Boskoop

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Boskoop. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThere are no ferry or waterbus services to Gouda, but when you own a boat, there are facilities to stay in Gouda.

From Wikivoyage: Gouda, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    136 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    441 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    651 km
  4. 04
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    686 km
  5. 05
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    709 km

If you know how people move in Boskoop – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Boskoop

Boskoop is 20 km from Rotterdam, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.