Palatinate Forest
The Palatinate Forest (, ), sometimes also called the Palatine Forest, is a low-mountain region in southwestern Germany, located in the Palatinate in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The forest is a designated nature park () covering 1,771 km and its highest elevation is the Kalmit (673 m).
Walking routes in the Palatine Forest
These two trails run from Saarbrücken through the Palatine Forest to the River Rhine near Wörth.
The green bar footpath in the Palatine Forest runs from Zweibrücken-Niederauerbach via Contwig, Walshausen, and Bottenbach to Kröppen. From there it goes via Eppenbrunn and Ludwigswinkel, Petersbächel and Schönau to Nothweiler, before finally passing through Bobenthal heading for Sankt Germanshof on the French border. The route continues further via Schweigen-Rechtenbach towards Bienwald.
The path waymarked by a black dot on a white bar runs from Saarbrücken (Schafbrücke) through the Palatine Forest into the Anterior Palatinate as far as Rülzheim. Its course through the Forest goes from Landstuhl, via the Gelterswoog and Kaiserslautern, continuing on the historic mountain road past Hochspeyer to Frankenstein, through the Jägertal valley to Bad Dürkheim, before heading along the Haardt to Bad Bergzabern, and then finally east via the Bienwald to Rülzheim.