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.)
- 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)