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The Top 20 Gorges in Upper Franconia

Gorges are incredibly beautiful places, and you’ve got 20

to choose from in Upper Franconia. Just browse our list of the best gorges below and see photos, tips and extra info to help you visit one of these beautiful places on your next adventure in Upper Franconia.

Last updated: October 18, 2025

Trail from Pottenstein to Teufelshöhle (West Shore of Schöngrundsee)

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Beautiful, wild romantic way.

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Felsensteig Gößweinstein

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Short, but beautiful climb below the castle Gößweinstein. The path leads partly over wooden stairs and can therefore be handled well.

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Upper Püttlach Valley

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Beautiful valley. Also good to hike with children.

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Klumpertal

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The Klumpertal is pure nature, the name comes from the former Klumpermühle. Baron von Guttenberg had a "landscape garden" laid out in the English style in Klumpertal, almost everything of …

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Tiefenthal Gorge

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The entrance to the gorge is located at the rehabilitation clinic Lautergrund. At the beginning of the trail is still relatively wide, but then becoming increasingly narrow and leads up …

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Steinachklamm

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Nobody knows where the volcano erupted, bringing the white and greenish-gray quartz keratophyr into the Steinach Gorge. The special climate in the gorge, which is due to the rock, the …

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Eibgrat Rock Passage

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The gate to the Eibgrad, whoever fits through there, also makes the grade

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Leinleiter Dry Valley

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If you're lucky and the grass is high, you may meet Schäfer Rainer von Bauer sucht Frau with his animals.
In summer you only run in the sun, unfortunately no shade. But beautiful in every season.

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Streitberg rock gate

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The Felsentor is as the name implies a natural gate between two mighty rocks above Streitberg. Many hiking trails lead through or past here; so also the Frankenweg, a long-distance hiking trail, which crosses all Franconia, including the Franconian Switzerland.

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Todsfeld valley

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The Thuisbrunner Leiten with their limestone grasslands have been used by the people of the Franconian Switzerland as a pasture or for mowing for centuries. They offer rare plants and animals habitat and are typical of the local landscape.

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The Top 20 Gorges in Upper Franconia

Trail from Pottenstein to Teufelshöhle (West Shore of Schöngrundsee)

Felsensteig Gößweinstein

Upper Püttlach Valley

Klumpertal

Tiefenthal Gorge

Steinachklamm

Eibgrat Rock Passage

Leinleiter Dry Valley

Streitberg rock gate

Todsfeld valley

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Most popular routes in Upper Franconia

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