Best backpacking trails in Hitzacker

A circular hike in the Lüneburg Heath from Hitzacker on the Elbe, which is an excellent quality trail for Wanderable Germany. Duration: approx. 7:45 hours Highlights of the hike: - Biosphere reserve Nidersächsische Elbtalaue - Migratory birds such as storks and cranes in spring and autumn - Hitzacker open-air museum

Stage F of the long-distance cycle route "Elbe Cycle Route", Lower Saxony/Brandenburg. Stage F of the Elbe Cycle Route, which runs around 840 km through Germany, leads through the border area between the UNESCO Elbe River Landscape Biosphere Reserve and the Elbhöhen-Wendland Nature Park. In addition to the picturesque river landscape, regional cultural and historical highlights such as the Schnackenburg Borderland Museum and the Schwedenschanze are also waiting to be discovered. The stage...

Varied long-distance hiking trail in the Elbhöhen-Wendland nature park, Lower Saxony. From Hitzacker, the Wendland loop runs on an almost 200 km long loop trail through the Elbhöhen-Wendland nature park. The long distance, which is usually hiked in ten daily stages, enchants with a great variety of different natural and cultural landscapes: the extensive Elbe valley floodplains, the Elbe heights with great views, endless mixed deciduous forests, historical heathland and round villages worth...

Stage 2 of the long-distance hiking trail "Wendland Rundweg", Lower Saxony. This is the second stage of the Wendland loop, which runs for almost 200 km through the Elbhöhen-Wendland nature park. With a length of around 12 km, this section from Wietzetze to Göhrde is also quite relaxed. The hike is particularly beautiful at the time of the lily blossom, when countless field lilies turn the lily path, on which one hikes for quite some time here, into an orange sea of flowers. Once in Göhrde, a...

Stage 1 of the long-distance hiking trail "Wendland Rundweg", Lower Saxony. This is the first stage of the Wendland loop, which runs for almost 200 km through the Elbhöhen-Wendland nature park. The first section largely follows the banks of the Elbe and runs for around 14 km from Hitzacker to Wietzetze. Before starting the stage, which is classified as beginner-friendly, it is worth exploring the Kneipp spa town of Hitzacker with its pretty half-timbered houses. Then a lot of wonderful...