Leisure activities
Outdoor swimming pool, indoor swimming pool, walking, cycling and Nordic walking trails, nature trail, cross-country skiing.
Hiking - nothing but nature
- Geroldsauer waterfalls
Beautiful rhododendron park (about 3 hours) - Gertelbacher waterfalls (about 1 hour)
- Schwarzenbachtalsperre reservoir (about 1.5 hours to the dam)
- Lothar path (approximately 20 km)
An adventure path through an area of woodland destroyed by hurricane Lothar in 1999. - Wilderness trail on Plättig (about 1 hour)
Unspoilt countryside, good shoes required! - Waldlehrpfad Herrenwies
forest educational path with a hunting path and different stops with information on various topics (ants, bark beetles, fairy tales, etc.) (about 30 minutes) - Herrenwieser See (lake)
A tarn about 15,000 years old (2-hour hike of about 4 km) - Sandsee lake (popular trail at night) (approx. 15 minutes)
- Badener Höhe mountain
Watch tower (high-altitude walk, 1002 m above sea level, about 2 hours) - "Hoher Ochsenkopf" forest reserve
(Walk there for about 3 hours) - Information trail on the Mehliskopf mountain
(Find out more about the Black Forest)
Lots to experience
- Guided tour of the pumped storage power station in Forbach (263 bus, Tel. 07228-916 201. About 11 km away)
- Mehliskopf mountain with year-round bob run, ski lift and adventure climbing garden. Climb, balance and glide through a world of ropes, beams, bridges, nets and cable cars. Enjoy nature from high up! On this roughly 3.5 hectare site, you can climb from tree to tree on 7 obstacle courses of varying degrees of difficulty at heights of 3 m to 14 m (about 7 minutes away on foot).
- Nature Reserve Center Ruhestein
(can be reached by charter bus. About 18 km away) - Ziegenpfad ("goat path") in Forbach
A merry walk with the goats for young and old alike.
(easy to get to with the 263 bus. About 11 km away) - Luchspfad ("lynx path") in Baden-Baden
Path with 20 interactive stations with information about the habitat of the lynx in the Black Forest - Mummelsee
The legendary Mummelsee is the biggest, deepest and highest lake in the Black Forest.
(about 12 km)