Hiking trails in the Eifel

Distance: 11.1 km Starting point: Bus station in Simmerath

Circular hike near Lutzerath in GesundLand Vulkaneifel to the Achter Höhe viewing platform

14 km hiking tour through the large nature conservation project | Naturschutzgroßprojekt Obere Ahr-Hocheifel Dreamy brook meadows, gentle ridges and fantastic Eifel views await us on this unique circular tour, in the middle of the Obere Ahr-Hocheifel nature conservation project.

Experience beautiful nature along narrow hiking trails and get an up-close look at the world of miners in the old ore mining sites, the so-called "Pingen" on the Pingenwanderweg trail.

Have you always wanted to know how long a bee has to work to produce a jar of honey? How do these hardworking insects communicate with each other? Do bees sting only when they're threatened?

The tour leads through the historic town center with the Ahr spring, magnificent half-timbered houses and perhaps the narrowest house in the Eifel.

The forest nature trail in the forest at Burgau Castle is a special nature experience for families with kindergarten and school children. Here they can learn all kinds of interesting facts about the forest habitat at various stations.

The trail leads through an area rich in game with many traces of hunters and the hunted. The north-eastern part of the national park borders our route. For thousands of years, people subsisted as hunters and gatherers. The introduction of livestock farming and agriculture not only changed habits, but also the original landscape. The result was a cultivated landscape dominated by humans, which increasingly limited the habitat of game. We follow the hiking trail sign 09.

The BLUE ROUND of the 7-village trail is one of the two possible shortcuts of the main trail, meaning that the trail does not lead through 7 villages like the main route, but through 4 villages: Wanderath, Oberwelschenbach, Büchel and Freilingen.

The circular route is tarred on one section, the rest of the way is natural. It is possible to use a wheelchair from the kiosk to the dam wall, along the Dorint Hotel. This route is the smallest of the 3 Nordic Walking trails at the Bitburg reservoir and leads once around the Bitburg reservoir.