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Hiking through the transnational Palatinate Forest-North Vosges biosphere reserve not only stimulates the visual senses, but also your ears: As you pass rushing streams and quiet castles on the Palatinate Forest Trail, the leaves rustle, the undergrowth crackles and crunches underfoot.

The best way to hike through the North Palatinate mountains around the Donnersberg is on the Palatinate High Trail. In seven stages, it leads up high, past old castle ruins and through picturesque villages.

The Palatinate Wine Trail, on the other hand, offers hikers numerous opportunities to hike between vineyards and forest mountains and taste the wine where it tastes best: at the vineyards themselves. The routes through the extensive Riesling-growing region range from easy to challenging, so that everyone will find a suitable trail.

Of course, the Palatinate with its mild climate is also suitable for winter hiking: Up the Kleine Kalmit, through icy vineyards with 360° views or to Madenburg Castle - in the Palatinate, active vacationers will also find fantastic routes in winter.

For those who prefer to combine walking in the fresh air with culture, city walks are particularly suitable. Whether Pirmasens, Neustadt an der Weinstraße or through the parks of Landau - the beautifully illuminated town centers make a city walk twice as much fun. In December, you can also discover charming Christmas markets.

Of course, Palatinate hospitality also includes cyclists, who will find a very well-developed network of cycle paths from the heights of the Palatinate Forest to the Rhine plain. The German Wine Route cycle path leads touring cyclists through romantic wine villages, for example, and on the Barbarossa cycle path they can even take a leap back to the medieval imperial era. If you want to burn off some energy on your mountain bike, you will find the perfect conditions on exciting trails in the Palatinate Forest Mountain Bike Park or the Trippstadt Bike Park.