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Schoonloo

Schoonloo is a village in the Dutch province of Drenthe, Netherlands.

Schoonloo
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The place

Schoonloo is a village in the Dutch province of Drenthe, Netherlands. It is a part of the municipality of Aa en Hunze, and lies about 14 km southeast of Assen.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

There are 12 dolmen sites (megalithic tombs) in the municipality of Aa en Hunze.

From Wikivoyage: Schoonloo, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Do

Things to do

Two villages in Aa en Hunze are starting point of a stage of the Pieterpad, the most famous long distance walking route of the Netherlands. The route's fourth stage ends in Rolde. The fifth stage runs almost entirely within Aa en Hunze, from Rolde to Schoonloo, and the sixth stage starts in Schoonloo.

From Wikivoyage: Schoonloo, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    Restaurant 't Moatie

    Kerkstraat 2C, Gasselte,.

  2. 02
    De Liefde van de Drentsche Aa

    Ruiterweg 2, Schipborg,.

From Wikivoyage: Schoonloo, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Schoonloo

Airports
Groningen Eelde (GRQ), 25 km · Münster Osnabrück (FMO), 109 km · Bremen (BRE), 141 km
  • Amsterdam → Schoonloo
    136 km · quickest by road, 2h 44m · €18–25
  • Eindhoven → Schoonloo
    183 km · quickest by road, 3h 8m · €22–31
  • Rotterdam → Schoonloo
    186 km · quickest by road, 3h 7m · €22–31
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Schoonloo

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 Schoonloo. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextThere are many small and large destinations in the direct surroundings, making for good bike tour destinations, whether you're heading on or just want to have a good day trip.

From Wikivoyage: Westerbork, 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

    122 km
  2. 02
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    521 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    603 km
  4. 04
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    769 km
  5. 05
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    800 km

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

Around it

Next door to Schoonloo

  • Grolloovillage in Aa en Hunze, Netherlands3.9 km
  • Ellertshaarhamlet in Borger-Odoorn, Netherlands2.3 km