Hiking
The landscape characterized by the Donnersberg, adorned here and there by small villages, is ideal for eventful and varied hikes.
Numerous marked hiking trails lead through forests, meadows and river valleys, past meadows and ponds up to the Donnersberg.
A particular hiking highlight is the Pfälzer Höhenweg trail from Winnweiler to Wolfstein, which offers fantastic views over a distance of around 112 kilometers. Another award-winning hiking trail is the Hinkelsteinweg, which was only opened in 2014.
The well-marked themed hiking trails can be explored all year round on your own or on a guided hiking tour accompanied by local hiking scouts.
The hiking huts of the Palatinate Forest associations and local restaurants are available for a well-earned rest and snack break.
Certified hiking trails
Palatinate ridgeway -total route-
The Pfälzer Höhenweg guarantees plenty of variety. And not just because the 114-kilometre trail takes you higher than anywhere else in the Palatinate.
Hinkelstein Trail -total route-
The 39-kilometre circular hiking trail connects the Palatinate Forest-North Vosges biosphere reserve with the Donnersberg hiking area and leads past the large "Hinkelstein" menhir and the Mehlinger Heide.
Guided hikes and hiking events
To the date overview
Do you like to socialize and enjoy getting to know the country and its people? Then group hikes accompanied by local guides are just the thing for you
Themed hiking trails
Circular trails with magnificent views and intensive insights into the mining past of the region ...
Kupferweg 1
Following in the footsteps of the mining industry, this hiking trail leads along old miners' houses to former mining tunnels, whose history can be read about on display boards.
Kupferweg 2
The Copper Trail II leads past all the important pits of the former copper-cobalt-silver-manganese mine near Imsbach and thus gives a comprehensive impression of the extent and size of the pits, some of which are centuries old.
Iron way
A hike on the "Iron Trail", a circular hiking trail steeped in mining history, means encountering relics of almost 2000 years of mining history in the forests around Imsbach.