

Of course, the Wutachschlucht canyon is also one of the main attractions on the Schluchtensteig, a Wanderbares Deutschland premium trail that guides you for 118 kilometres along idyllic river valleys, up steep cliffs and past excellent viewing points through the Black Forest’s green meadows and woods over six stages. Probably the best known of these is the Wutachschlucht canyon, a unique and original wild river landscape in the South Black Forest Nature Park that is up to 200 metres deep. The gorges in the Black Forest, embedded in a wild and romantic landscape that has been shaped by water over millions of years, make walking in the Black Forest a unique adventure even for children. The concept of nature-based, gentle tourism in which unspoiled nature and cultivated landscapes are protected and preserved in equal measure impresses guests from all over the world.

In actual fact, it’s well on its way, since with the Black Forest National Park located to the north, the Black Forest Central/North Nature Park, the South Black Forest Nature Park and the biosphere reserve also located in the south, the Black Forest has the largest protected area of any holiday region.

With all this breathtaking natural beauty, the whole Black Forest should probably be given protected status. They are the destination of countless hiking trails, cycling tours, ski tours and mountain bike trails and they attract nature-loving hikers, cyclists, bikers and skiers to the Black Forest each year. National park, nature park and the Black Forest biosphere reserveįeldberg, Schauinsland, Hochfirst, Kandel and the panoramic mountain of Belchen are five of the best-known elevations in the Black Forest. A very special part of your holiday in the “Land of Burgundy” is a visit to a Straußenwirtschaft bar, where wine growers offer their own wine on their own premises, and in autumn serve simple dishes to accompany their wine such as tarte flambée, onion tart, Black Forest ham and other regional specialities. Hinterzarten, Freudenberg, Titisee-Neustadt, Baiersbronn and Schonau are just five of over 70 ski resorts in the Black Forest.īaden wine is grown on the sunlit hillsides of Breisgau, Ortenau, Markgräflerland, Tuniberg and Kaiserstuhl.

Skiers and snowboarders can usually find good conditions for winter sports in the higher areas of the Black Forest. In the summer months, the warm sun makes walking and cycling in the Black Forest a pure joy. To the present day, walkers and cyclists have been following in the footsteps of old sagas and cultures on their holidays in the Black Forest in an unspoiled landscape which, with its extinct volcanoes of Vogelsberg and Kaiserstuhl, reminds you of the hot phase of the earth’s history, and which was largely covered with glaciers around 12,000 years ago. The fir green forests in Germany’s largest low mountain range would have been the perfect scenery for brave Little Red Riding Hood, written by the Brothers Grimm. The Black Forest is like a fairy tale with its clear lakes and idyllic river courses, gorges and waterfalls. Discover mystical locations and experience traditions
