In the middle of a landscape of FOREST and WATER, you can experience the fascination of WILDNESS up close in the Eifel National Park. The national park and its surroundings can be discovered again and again on well-developed, themed hiking routes. 240 kilometers of hiking trails are open to you in the national park. The approx. 14 km long hike leads over the heights of the Kermeter through beech and sessile oak forests, some of which are cut by small notch valleys. At the beginning of the tour, you walk along the banks of Lake Rursee for a few kilometers. Later on, you will come across the beech forests typical of the northern slopes of the Kermeter, which make up around 26% of the forest area in the Eifel National Park. At the fork in the path behind the Ramsau picnic area, you can shorten the tour by taking a ride on the Rurseeflotte.

If you opt for the full tour, you will climb the Weidenauer Berg in tight hairpin bends and reach the ridge of the Kermeter. Beautiful views of the surrounding Eifel landscape accompany you on this section and reward you for the effort of the ascent. Once you reach the top, the Paulushof and Hirschley rest stops, which also offer fantastic views of Lake Rursee and the picturesque forests, invite you to take a break. The trail then leads through beech forests back to the shores of Lake Rur and from there back to the starting point.