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Gräbersberg Observation Tower – Milky Lake loop from Hachenburg

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Gräbersberg Observation Tower – Milky Lake loop from Hachenburg

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Gräbersberg Observation Tower – Milky Lake loop from Hachenburg

03:28

12.6km

210m

Hiking

Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: June 29, 2026

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2.20 km

Water Experience Path Information Board: Historical Meadow Irrigation

Highlight • Monument

Here is a station on the water adventure trail. A sign explains how the fields were once irrigated in order to achieve a higher harvest, as artificial fertilizers were not yet available until the middle of the 20th century.

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5.69 km

Jöckel's Alpenröder Hut

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Beautifully located beer garden, where you can rest well.

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5.71 km

Gräbersberg Observation Tower

Highlight • Viewpoint

The 73-meter-high observation tower on the Gräbersberg has a viewing platform at a height of 33 meters. From there you have a magnificent view of the Westerwald landscape.

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6.83 km

Bench with a view of the lake

Highlight • Viewpoint

Nice resting place with a great view of the lake

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6.85 km

Milky Lake

Highlight • Lake

This lake is located directly on the water adventure trail. Thanks to the fine white clay kaolin, this lake has got its unique milky color. A natural spectacle that you can rarely watch.

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6.90 km

Salitos Lake (Böhmsfeld Quarry)

Highlight • Lake

Very nice hike, started the round from Hachenburg.

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7.10 km

Alpenrod Clay Pit

Highlight • Natural

... here you can see the pit.

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10.0 km

Alte Poststraße (Historic Post Road)

Highlight • Trail

Before 1657 and again from 1678-1680, Count von Sayn-Hachenburg, Salentin Ernst von Manderscheid and Blankenheim, tried to direct traffic on Cologne-Frankfurt-Strasse (today's B 8) via Hachenburg. This should no longer …

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12.6 km

End point

Parking

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

8.85 km

2.36 km

1.12 km

271 m

Surfaces

8.59 km

2.07 km

1.50 km

402 m

< 100 m

Elevation

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Weather

Tuesday 7 July

22°C

17°C

31 %

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Max wind speed: 18.0 km/h

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Comments

September 15, 2022,Wasser-Erlebnis-Pfad bei Hachenburg

Appealing, entertaining route without special hiking requirements. Except maybe NOT stepping into the milk lake - which is actually not that difficult 😅. Be sure to climb the lookout tower, it's absolutely worth it. And then continue the path sharply left in front of the tower (do not follow the WW-Steig straight ahead).
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August 21, 2022,Wasser-Erlebnispfad

First hike back home after our vacation in the Palatinate.
Nice hike with great sections especially at the beginning.
After the Gräbersberg it goes straight as a die over a gravel road towards Hachenburg for a while, which stretches a bit.

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October 29, 2023,Hachenburg: Wassererlebnispfad

Today a Westerwaldlied path.
*the wind whistles so cold over your heights..

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August 26, 2023,Wasser-Erlebnis-Pfad Hachenburg 🚶🏼‍♀️🚶🏻‍♂️🚶🏻‍♀️🚶🏼‍♂️

Visiting the Westerwald 🌲. We had discovered the water adventure path in the summer issue of 2021 in the hiking magazine and today it was a good idea to walk it. The observation tower on the Gräbersberg was the absolute highlight 😊. In the distance you could even see the Feldberg in the Taunus. And the best thing was - …

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July 23, 2022,Wasser - Erlebnispfad Hachenburg 💦🌞

Did another guided hike with the Facebook group today. The water - experience - path in Hachenburg. There were very beautiful, small nature trails that are just fun to walk on. With many highlights, as you can see in the pictures.

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December 26, 2023,Runde ab Alpenrod

After a rather quiet holiday spent without any major gluttony, we went from Alpenrod high over the Gräbersberg next to the legendary Alpenroder Hütte..continued along partly very damp paths to Gehlert and through Rothbachtal (very beautiful, but a lot of dead wood and in places a lot of surrounding 🌳🌲 ). Shortly before Hachenburg then via the old post route …

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September 15, 2024,Wassererlebnispfad Hachenburg

A tour around Gehlert, our birthplace!
This is where Fiete and I saw the light of the big world!!

The water adventure trail had been on the list for a while, but whenever we visited Gehlert, other things were on the agenda.
The trail, or rather the feeder, begins at the "Hopfengarten" of the Hachenburg brewery and then leads as …

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March 2, 2022,Wassererlebnispfad

Nice nice round from the hiking car park in Alpenrod, directly first the 205 (if I didn't miscount) steps up to the 33m high observation tower next to the legendary Alpenroder Hütte...continue on easily accessible paths to Gehlert, through Rothbachtal (very nice) and over back the old postal route and the Milchsee. With the best weather, it was just twice …

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Gräbersberg Observation Tower – Milky Lake loop from Hachenburg

Water Experience Path Information Board: Historical Meadow Irrigation

Jöckel's Alpenröder Hut

Gräbersberg Observation Tower

Bench with a view of the lake

Milky Lake

Salitos Lake (Böhmsfeld Quarry)

Alpenrod Clay Pit

Alte Poststraße (Historic Post Road)

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