Gambach und Hirtenwiese – Juniper heath south of Burbach

Car park Gambach, Burbach

From the hiking car park you can follow the path, , which is marked with yellow-topped posts, downhill across the heath. At the bottom fringe of the forest you leave the heath. Passing through a coniferous forest and later through an oak-birch coppice, you return to Burbach. In the village, the path makes a 180-degree turn and then takes you back uphill to an old Oak-Beech forest, where you may be lucky enough to see Middle-spotted and Black Woodpeckers. Now a steep section of the trail again takes you uphill until you reach the hilltop where the storm "Kyrill" flattened large areas of the spruce stands in 2007. The trail continues along the ridge to the Hirtenwiese, from which it is not far to the starting point at the top edge of the heath. The approximately 8-km-long circular route is almost identical to the Burbach circular hiking trail B2.