The dream loop "Between the Woods" owes its name to an ancient name of the area in which the hiking trail runs today. The book of the same name "Between the Woods" (August Keller 1958) describes the region of the former office in a sensitive and detailed manner Kempfeld with its villages. According to Keller, the closed landscape of the so-called Idar plateau was already given the name "Between the woods" in medieval documents, as the characteristic location between high wooded mountains is immediately apparent. In fact, you can experience the name at almost every point on the dream loop. The high forest rises from the southeast with its distinctive heights, rising slightly towards the west. Beeches, spruces and oaks, interrupted only by the deep incision of the Idarbach near Katzenloch, form a closed forest area. In the north, the Idarwald also extends slightly to the southwest rising with its large forest area. Both mountain ranges unite in the west and form with the Erbeskopf the highest mountain in Rhineland-Palatinate. As at the end of a funnel, embedded between the two large mountain ranges of the Hunsrück, lie the villages of Wirschweiler and Allenbach with their meadows and The hiker is always on his way "Between the woods".