Did you know that Flevoland is one of the largest tulip regions in the Netherlands? Every spring, you can enjoy a sea of colour here. Several routes take you along the tulips in Flevoland. Be guided through the Flevopolder with the Tulip Route (from mid-April 2025) and through the Noordoostpolder with the Tulip Festival (18 April to 4 May 2025) and admire the fields full of tulips for yourself! We can't wait for it to happen every year. Can you?
Springtime! Time to admire the tulips in Flevoland. Various routes take you past the most beautiful spots, whether you go there by car, by bike or on foot. All kinds of fun activities are also organised at various tulip locations. Most of the tulip fields can be found in the Noordoostpolder, around Dronten, Lelystad and Zeewolde. The start and end dates of the Tulip Route Flevoland and the Tulip Festival Noordoostpolder depend on weather conditions and therefore vary every year, as do the routes. On this page, you will find information about the one in 2025.
Tulip Route Flevoland guarantees beautiful cycling and car routes along numerous tulip fields in eastern and southern Flevoland. Discover the colourful outskirts of the municipalities of Dronten, Zeewolde and Lelystad with the car, cycling and walking routes of Tulip Route Flevoland. The car route is not signposted, but after you buy a ticket, you will receive the route digitally. The cycling route is free of charge and also available on the Tulip Route Flevoland website. Besides enjoying the colourful splendour of the tulip fields along the way, you can also light up at several (agricultural) businesses along the route, as they open their doors to the public especially during the tulip season. A unique opportunity to take a look inside where you don't usually go.
Go to the website of Tulip Route Flevoland
Every spring, the Northeast Polder is dedicated to the Tulip Festival. During the festival, there is plenty to do. See the colourful tulip fields with the bicycle or car route and, above all, download the app to get information along the way about tulip cultivation, the history of the Northeast Polder and the other agricultural activities in this area. Children will be kept busy along the way with a maze, bouncy castle, quiz and puzzle, while adventurers can take it higher with a balloon flight over the tulip fields. A colourful view is guaranteed! Every day of the Tulip Festival, you can go to various locations for a bite to eat and a drink. These include a food truck at Renne Streekproducten in Nagele and a Pop-up Grand Tulip Café at the Tulip Experience Field in Creil. There is a restaurant at the tulip festival alocaites in Bant and Emmeloord, so you can take a break there too.
Go to the website of Tulip Festival Noordoostpolder
When you drive or cycle a tulip route, there is a temptation to walk into the fields to see and photograph the tulips up close. Please don't do that. Doing so will trample tulips and may transmit plant diseases. Besides: would you enjoy having people in your backyard all the time? But don't worry: there are two locations where you are meant to walk among the tulips and photograph them up close to your heart's content. In Espel you will find the Tulip Species Garden, where you will see hundreds of varieties of tulips in all colours and shapes. An information board tells you all about this special collection, and on weekends there is even a guide to show you around. A little further on, in Creil, you are welcome to visit the Tulip Experience Field. Here you can see hundreds of different types of tulips up close or from above as you walk across the walkway. There is also a pop-up café with a cosy terrace here.
Every year, the most beautiful routes are set out so that tulip lovers can easily follow them to fully enjoy all the colourful splendour. In the Noordoostpolder, the Stichting Evenementen en Promotie Noordoostpolder (StEP NOP) marks out the routes and organises all kinds of fun activities around them under the name Tulip Festival. In the rest of Flevoland, the routes are set out (but not signposted) by the Stichting Tulpenroute Flevoland.
During your tour of the tulip fields, you are not supposed to enter the fields. These are ultimately the private property of the growers, who earn their money from them. So stay on the roadside and definitely do not stand or walk among the tulips. In the various tulip-picking gardens in Flevoland, however, this is allowed. Here, you can walk among the tulips and take photos up close to your heart's content. And, as the name suggests, you can also pick your own tulips here.
Besides driving a tulip route and admiring and photographing our tulips, you can experience many more fun things in Flevoland during the tulip season. Both the Tulip Route Flevoland and the Tulip Festival Noordoostpolder organise all kinds of fun activities for young and old. For example, you can float above the tulip fields in a hot air balloon and children can have fun with a bouncy castle and games. Check out some of those tulip activities here.
As the name indicates, Tulip Route Flevoland sets up bicycle routes and car routes along the tulip fields in the municipalities of Dronten, Lelystad and Zeewolde , so that visitors to the area can enjoy the riot of colours on our tulip fields. In addition to those routes, Tulip Route Flevoland also arranges that several (agricultural) businesses along the routes open their doors, giving you a unique taste of what farming in Flevoland is like.
