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Observation tower · Heemskerk · Updated on 1 November 2026.

Uitkijktoren Kruisberg in Heemskerk

Uitkijktoren Kruisberg is an observation tower in Heemskerk, North Holland. This place has a story in the app. Within 380 m you'll find a public toilet, a water point and a bench.

Uitkijktoren Kruisberg in Heemskerk
Uitkijktoren Kruisberg in Heemskerk, photo 2
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Photo: Jarkeld · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 nlView the photo on Wikimedia Commons

The story

Story · Uitkijktoren Kruisberg

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You're standing at the Kruisberg, a dune twenty-six metres high in the North Holland Dune Reserve, in the dunes of Heemskerk. Where does the name come from? Nobody really knows.

Read the whole story in the Outdoor Pitstop app: check in at this place and it is yours (with Pro; new users are Pro for the first 4 weeks).

Photos

5 photos from Wikimedia Commons. In the app you add your own photo when you are there.

Uitkijktoren Kruisberg in Heemskerk
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Photo: Willemijn92 · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0View the photo on Wikimedia Commons
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Photo: Esther Westerveld from Haarlemmermeer, Nederland · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0View the photo on Wikimedia Commons

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