Elst
Elst is a town in the municipality of Overbetuwe in the Dutch province of Gelderland.
Elst is a town in the municipality of Overbetuwe in the Dutch province of Gelderland. It is situated in the Betuwe, between the cities of Arnhem and Nijmegen. In January 2022 the town had 22,509 inhabitants.
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Worth seeing in and around Elst
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.
- 01Schoonderlogt estate
Schoonderlogt estate is a 17th century country house in Elst, Netherlands.
2.6 km · 17th century country house in Elst, Netherlands · Wikipedia
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Getting to Elst
- Airports
- Weeze (Niederrhein) (NRN), 41 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 61 km · Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS), 85 km
- Stations
- Elst railway station, 1.2 km
- Eindhoven → Elst59 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · €7–10
- Amsterdam → Elst82 km · quickest by road, 2h 16m · €10–14
- Rotterdam → Elst93 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · €11–15
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Elst
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 Elst. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inNijmegen is probably one of the easiest places in the Netherlands to hitch from.
From Wikivoyage: Nijmegen, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Elst
Elst is 53 km from Utrecht, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Overbetuwemunicipality in Gelderland, the Netherlands800 m
- Valburgvillage in Overbetuwe, Netherlands3.4 km
- Ressenvillage in Lingewaard, Netherlands3.5 km
- Lijndenhamlet in Overbetuwe, Netherlands1.5 km
- Aamhamlet in Overbetuwe, Netherlands2 km