Circular hiking trail - Children's adventure trail - Starting point Lichtenhain

The path leaves the small village of Lichtenhain beneath the cable car mountain station. After passing under the steep section of the cable car, there is the opportunity to experience the ups and downs of the different cable car carriages. This is especially attractive when, in the summer months with good weather, the goods platform with the open-topped carriage, called Cabrio, is in use.

Passing Sandmann's Fairy Tale Hut, the path first leads through a varied high forest, then along the forest edge and pastures to the dog training area.

On a short, steeply downhill forest path, you reach the pasture area where the meadow path again goes uphill through the pastures of the bison. Protected by wire fences, you can admire these huge animals here, which were still found as wild animals in our forests 500 years ago. They were saved from extinction through breeding, and nowadays efforts are again underway to release them into the wild in Europe. This also took place in Germany in 2013 in the Rothaar Mountains with a small group of these largest herbivorous land animals on our continent.

From the pasture area, a signpost points to the fallow deer enclosure – it is always interesting to look at the fallow deer and does bred here, as well as the plentiful young animals.

Continuing through the pasture area, which provides the cattle herds of Natur-Fleisch GmbH “Rennsteig” Oberweißbach with ideal conditions for healthy and natural rearing, the path leads back to Lichtenhain. Here, in the immediate vicinity of the forest inn Falkenblick, you will find the facilities of the Lichtenhain forest railway—a narrow-gauge railway with a 600-millimeter gauge. On Saturdays and public holidays, it’s often possible to enjoy a short ride on this railway.

Besides that, there is also the transfer point from the cable car’s steep section to the flat section, which offers much of interest to technically interested visitors and users of the cable car. From here the path leads into Fröbel Forest. In this forest area on Falken Hill, since 2013 a forest experience trail with several interesting stations has been developed. Friedrich Fröbel, who was born in Oberweißbach, founded the first kindergarten in 1840. He believed that children should acquire their natural environment through play. The stations already created and those still to come in Fröbel Forest adopt these ideas and thus offer plenty of space for the development of children's activity and play drive.

After Fröbel Forest it is not far back to the starting point of the hike.

Hiking stamps – On these circular trails you can collect digital hiking stamps for your personal hiking certificate. At the marked stamp points, scan the respective QR code with your smartphone and add the location to your stamp account via the generated link. You can also collect the hiking stamps without a smartphone. Notes can be found on-site on the QR code signs. All stamp points are located directly on the path!

And the special feature:
The KomBus hiking buses quickly and comfortably bring you back to the starting point of your hike!