Best trails near Papierfabrik Blankenberg

Popular cycle tour in the Franconian Forest Nature Park, Bavaria. Despite the moderate distance, this cycle tour is quite demanding in terms of fitness. You have to overcome some long, sometimes quite steep climbs, but you can also enjoy long descents. After the tour, you can end the day with a relaxing visit to the thermal baths in Bad Streben. Highlights of the tour: - Mineral fountain in Hölle - Horwagen marble quarry geotope - Max Marien spring in Lauenau - Lotharheil slate mine in...

Accommodation and refreshment stops. Access to the starting point from the railway stations in Hof or Münchberg, finishing point at Blankenstein station (accessible by bus and train).

This route is the first stage of the Franconian Mountain Trail, a long-distance hiking trail in Bavaria; this section begins in Untereichenstein (near Blankenstein) and ends in Selbitz. The trail starts at the hiking hub where the Franconian Forest, the Thuringian Forest and the Fichtel Mountains meet, and leads through the picturesque Selbitz Valley. The route runs along the ‘Green Belt’ on the former inner-German border and follows quiet meadow paths and forest trails via Issigau and...