Dream Loop Wilderness Trail Weiskirchen

Passing the natural monuments "Iltisfels" and "Hoher Fels," the path steadily climbs. Sometimes steep, sometimes less so, you hike on narrow forest paths towards Schimmelkopf. Below Schimmelkopf, with 694 meters one of the highest elevations in Saarland, the trail winds through the forest. Solitude and silence prevail in this seemingly endless forest area.

Via a path you enter the Wahnbachtal nature reserve. The narrow gorge of the low mountain stream is also called the "soul protection area Wahnbachtal." You leave the valley via a steep path upwards along the so-called Behlengraben.

Past old quarries, the trail reaches the Schlittentaler stream. For a considerable time, it means hiking uphill again. The dreamlike scenery at Herberloch awaits. In the hollow of a former quarry, recognizable by its ocher-colored rock, lies a small, almost mirror-smooth lake with a fairy-tale atmosphere.

Along another forest stream and over several bridges, we initially descend from Herberloch before the dream loop leads back to Weiskirchen via further forest paths.

The path was rated with 60 experience points by the German Hiking Institute.