Leisure tips

Leisure activities

  • Outdoor swimming pool
  • Indoor swimming pool
  • Leisure pool (in Blaustein)
  • Football field
  • Playgrounds
  • Tennis court
  • Halfpipe for skaters
  • Blautopfbähnle (steam train)

Hiking - nothing but nature

Walks starting at the hostel:

  • Ruckenberg (viewpoint) - ruins of Ruck Metzgerfelsen - Ruckenschloss Castle - Frauenberg - Rusenschloss Castle ruins - Blaubeuren (3 hours)
  • Hörnle - Eseltal valley - Beininger Höhe - Spechtsberg mountain - Quarries - Gerhausen (3 hours)
  • Gerhausen - Hohenstein - Eichhalde - Tugendpfad ("virtue path") - Bleiche (valley walk) (3 hours)
  • Gerhausen - Weiler - Tiefental - Sontheimer Höhle (cave) (4 hours)
  • Hörnle - (viewpoint, Schiller monument) - Gleißenburg Castle ruins - Hölletal - Riedental - Weiler - Blaubeuren (4 hours.)
Geopark Swabian Alb (lots of caves):
  • Hohler Fels (cave) (Schelkingen)
  • Brillenhöhle (cave)
  • Laichinger Tiefenhöhle (cave)
  • Sontheimer Höhle (cave)
  • Kohlhaldenhöle (cave) (Sontheim)
  • Steinernes Haus (cave) (Westerheim)
  • Wimsener Mühle (mill) (Hayingen)

Lots to experience

  • Prehistoric Museum
  • Laichinger climbing forest
  • Laichinger Tiefenhöhle (deep cave) (10 km)
  • Ulm (20 km)
  • Model railway exhibition in Merklingen (20 km)
  • Günzburg (Legoland) (40 km)
  • Monasteries of Obermarchtal and Zwiesel (40 km)
  • Swabian Oberland (Swabian Baroque Route, Swabian Poets Road)
  • Public Observatory in Laupheim (27 km)

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