The 3 most beautiful hiking trails in Germany

20.04.2022
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Hiking in Corona times is booming: Due to the restrictions on trips abroad, hiking holidays are becoming increasingly popular.

Since extensive hiking tours are on the travel to-do list of many hiking fans, especially in spring, the vote on the most beautiful hiking trails in Germany comes at just the right time.

The trade journal “Trekking-Magazin” selects the winning paths in various categories every year. This year around 50,000 hiking fans voted and decided which three hiking trails are the most beautiful in Germany. The most beautiful long-distance hiking trails in Germany, the most beautiful hiking regions in Germany, Austria and Switzerland as well as the most beautiful hiking regions in the rest of Europe were also chosen.

The most beautiful hiking trails in Germany

1st place: The Palatinate almond path, Rhineland-Palatinate

The Palatinate Almond Trail is about 100 kilometers long and leads through the beautiful Palatinate wine landscape from Bockenheim to Schweigen-Rechtenbach. Especially in spring, a hike here is recommended because of the many blossoming almond trees. “Of course, the walk or hike on the Palatinate Almond Trail is worthwhile in all seasons,” says the official website of the hiking trail. According to the description, in autumn “the colorful play of colors in the wine landscape and in winter the romantic wine villages along the Wine Route” are enticing.”

2nd place: Teufelsstieg, Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt

The Teufelsstieg in the Harz Mountains is only 26 kilometers long, but it’s quite a challenge. On the harz.info website, the hiking trail is described as “the most difficult ascent to the Brocken”. The exact route and the individual stages of the Teufelsstieg can be found here.

3rd place: Seenweg Fichtelgebirge, Bavaria

The lake trail is 70 kilometers long and leads along many lakes in the Fichtelgebirge, most of them artificial reservoirs. The starting and ending points are the towns of Hof an der Saale in the north and Kirchenlaibach in the south of the Fichtelgebirge. The exact route and the individual stages can be found here.

The most beautiful long-distance hiking trails in Germany

Moselsteig, Rhineland-Palatinate
Goldsteig, Bavaria
Black Forest Ostweg, Baden-Wuerttemberg

The most beautiful hiking regions in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

Bavarian Forest, Bavaria
Berchtesgaden Alps, Bavaria
North Sea coast, Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein