In the last few years the landscape of the Northern Black Forest has opened up and the views have become more wide ranging.

The standard tour described below is 7 days / 8 nights, but if you are looking for a short break, a 3 day / 4 night walk along the first half of the route is also available. Daily distances are reasonably short, between 13 and 9 miles.

The hotels on this tour are definitely Superior Hotels: all (apart from the 3* Superior Hotel Schwarzwaldschäfer, where you stay at the end of the second day's walk) are 4* or equivalent, and all have their own swimming pool. The Forsthaus Auerhahn (at the end of Day 5) now only has non-smoking rooms.
This holiday includes free use of local public transport throughout your stay.

Day 1. Arrive in Freudenstadt.

Day 2. Leave Freudenstadt, heading north along the Mittelweg through fir forest. Part of this route is also a forest nature trail. Continue along the Mittelweg with its magnificent view over the valley of the River Murg to Seewald (about 13 miles).

Day 3. Continue past gentle meadowland with fine views. Then a stretch of ancient forest and down to the Kaltenbach Lake. Follow the valley down to Gompelscheuer and through meadows along the bank of the River Grosse Enz. Continue to Enzklösterle (about 11 miles).

Day 4. Leave via the Mittelweg and walk past the Hohlohsee wetlands nature reserve; take the Westweg over the Toter Mann (3002 feet) and across the Schramberg plateau. Finally to Schwarzenberg, where the hotel restaurant is the holder of a Michelin Star (about 11 miles).
The four night tour ends here.

Day 5. First through watermeadows to Schönmünzach, then along the valley of the Schönmünz river to Hinterlangenbach. then past a game reserve to Seibelseckle and finally along a short stretch of the Westweg to Hinterlangenbach (about 9 miles).

Day 6. Continue along the Westweg to the Mummelsee lake. Now walk south over the Steigerskopf and the Saukopf with a fine view over Wildsee lake. On to the Ruhestein, then down into Obertal (about 12 miles).

Day 7. Climb up to the Buhlbachsee lake, then over the top of the Black Forest ridge to Zuflucht. Follow the Westweg to Alexanderschanze and through forest to Kniebis (about 10 miles).

Day 8. The tour finishes with a relaxing walk through mixed forest and over moorland to Freudenstadt (about 9 miles).

Tour Details: Packages of 8 and 4 nights Bed & Breakfast are available, mainly in superior hotels, in rooms with shower or bath and WC. All hotels have swimming pools. Baggage transfer. Free use of local public transport. Extra nights may be taken at any point.

Unusually for the Black Forest, most, though not all of the hotels on this walk do have one or two twin rooms; they are only available on special request and cannot be guaranteed. Information on double and twin rooms.

Dates: Available from April to October.
These hotels are always very popular. Bookings for more than three rooms need to be made as far in advance (six months notice typically) as possible. At Public Holiday Periods there may be no availability at all.
In addition, accommodation in Freudenstadt is very limited during the first week in October. This may require that tours that would start or end in Freudenstadt during this period be adapted so that the first or last nights are spent in Kniebis.
Please ask for more information.

Please check our travel page for information on other ways of travelling to your holiday.

Please contact us for prices when using one of these other routes, and also for single supplements, child discounts and so on.

Our telephone number is 01946 861652.