Best easy trails in Hainich National Park

Barrier-free nature trail in the Hainich National Park. Enchanted forest giants. Talking ravens. Root dwarves. White women in the mist. Whispering branches. Good fairies. The jungle is deep and dark, and suddenly a wonderful clearing opens up unexpectedly. A fairytale forest. Anyone who enters the Hainich Forest is transformed - one way or another. The fact that the Hainich Forest is so unique also makes it a place of beautiful memories: of childhood, of carefree times in nature and of fairy...

Family-friendly circular hiking trail in the Hainich National Park, Thuringia The Hünenteich hiking trail is a certified quality trail in the Hainich National Park. Over a short distance, this circular hike gives an impressive impression of the varied and wild nature of the Hainich. You walk through primeval beech forests, which are part of the UNESCO World Heritage Wartburg-Hainich region, and pass alder quarries and old orchards. Geological highlights such as the cellar hole and cultural...

Temporary hiking trail in the Hainich National Park This hiking trail offers entertainment for young and old. It shows the natural habitat of the wildcat and is a wonderful addition to a visit to the wildcat village of Hütscheroda. The route begins above the show enclosure in Hütscheroda, the so-called wildcat clearing, not far from the wildcat barn and follows the hiking symbol "Wildcat Tracks". There is a slight incline between the wildcat barn and the wildcat clearing at the beginning of...

Barrier-free nature trail in the Hainich National Park There are a few teaching stations along the way where you can put your knowledge of the "treasures" of the national park to the test. The route begins at the Mallinde hiking car park near Berka vd Hainich on the western edge of the national park. Halfway the path leads into a forest meadow, at the edge of which you can already hear the rippling of the Silberborn spring, which gives it its name. There has always been a linden tree above...

Official hiking trail in the Hainich National Park This beautiful route starts at the Harsberg hiking parking lot and leads along a wide path slightly uphill into the national park. There are two options for the way back to the starting point: the short route leads within the national park via the primeval forest path back to the parking lot. The longer route leads out of the national park across meadows and fields past a worthwhile viewpoint with an impressive view over the Werra valley....

Historic hiking trail in the Hainich National Park near the treetop path From the "Thiemsburg" car park, past the "Old Oak", the thickest tree in the national park with a diameter of 5.45 m, you hike through a species-rich mixed deciduous forest with an alder quarry and historical boundary stones. Magnificent meanders and interesting tree shapes can be seen at the stone ditch. In the further course you can discover lush white Märzenbecher carpets in March. The short circular route is the...

Popular circular trail in the Hainich National Park Eight pre-Christian sanctuaries are presented on the Germanic Cult Trail, but these are not reconstructions on authentic sites. Rather, the trail illustrates that the primeval forest was also part of the Germanic world - a world that is documented by the Opfermoor Museum near Niederdorla with finds from the Opfermoor. The hike begins at the Rüspelsweg hiking parking lot (near Flarchheim), but can also be started at Am Zollgarten (near...

Close-to-nature hiking trail in the Hainich National Park The road has to be crossed twice in the 3.5 km route. The route is named after the many oak trees along the route. Therefore he follows the hiking symbol "acorn". It starts at the "Thiemsburg" car park not far from the national park center. Highlights of the hike: - Medieval refugee castle - Near-natural forest - hornbeams and beeches - Two closely entwined beeches - Old European beech - A detour to the stone ditch

Legendary circular hiking trail in the Hainich National Park The circular hiking trail starts at the Mallinde hiking car park near Berka vd Hainich and leads over the legendary Silberbornlinde and the Sulzrieden desert along the southern slope of the Burgberg and then back to the hiking car park. Those who hike this way can clearly see the effects of climate change in the Hainich National Park. The course of this path was relocated in April 2020, as the beech trees that were dying away on...