Karst Trail
The Karst Trail (German: Karstwanderweg) is a marked and signed footpath that runs for over 250 kilometres between Förste in Lower Saxony and Pölsfeld in Saxony-Anhalt through the karst landscape of the South Harz in Germany.
Signposts on the Karstwanderweg
Hawthorn on the Karstwanderweg near Questenberg
The path runs past a number of areas of natural beauty, including caves like the Heimkehle and the Barbarossa Cave, sinkholes like the Juessee and the Schwimmende Insel, depressions, moor landscapes like the Teufelsbäder, karst springs like the Rhumequelle and the Teufelsloch, disappearing streams and subterranean rivers like the Bauerngraben and gypsum rocks.
External links
- Homepage of the Karst Trail (in German)
- Panorama view of the path
- Osterode map section
- Nordhausen map section
- Mansfeld-Südharz map section
- Kyffhäuser map section
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