Skip to content
Mixroutes
Velsen
Municipality in North Holland, Netherlands

Velsen

Velsen is a municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland.

Plan a trip to Velsen→From Rotterdam

It is located on both sides of the North Sea Canal.

How locals move

Getting around Velsen the local way

  • Get inIf coming from Amsterdam a fun way to get to Heemskerk might be by taking the Fast Flying Ferry from behind Centraal Station in Amsterdam to Pontplein in Velsen-Zuid.
  • Get inIf coming from England you could take the ferry from Newcastle to IJmuiden.
  • Get inIf coming from below the North Sea Canal you could also cycle and take the free ferry from Velsen-Zuid to Velsen-Noord which goes every 20 minutes (24/7).

From Wikivoyage: Heemskerk, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. That article was last edited 2018-11, so a service it names may have changed or stopped.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.