Harz View Tower – Mackenröder Cliffs loop from Geismar

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Lower Saxony

Harz View Tower – Mackenröder Cliffs loop from Geismar

Moderate

4.8

(54)

158

hikers

Harz View Tower – Mackenröder Cliffs loop from Geismar

04:24

16.2km

230m

Hiking

Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: September 25, 2026

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Temporary access restrictions

Includes segments with temporary access restrictions.

After 29 m for 54 m

Closed: • November-February (otherwise open)

After 16.2 km for 54 m

Closed: • November-February (otherwise open)

Waypoints

Start point

Bus stop

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2.10 km

Information board Borheckstraße – Kerstlingeröder Field

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You automatically pass here if you want to leave the city via Kerstlingeröder Feld.

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2.56 km

Quiz Station at Kerstlingeröder Feld

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This informative quiz board is located in the middle of the beautiful landscape. It is about nature and how we influence it with our actions.

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3.09 km

Harz View Tower

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This is, so to speak, the new Mackenröder Spitze. The tower used to stand a little further south and had to make way for the Bundeswehr's small radar post on …

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8.55 km

View of Seeburger See

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View over the Harz foothills and Seeburger See.

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8.91 km

Mackenröder Spitze Shelter and Historic Monument

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There used to be an observation tower here, similar to the Harz view tower to the north, which did not exist at the time. The tower had to give way …

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9.62 km

Mackenröder Cliffs

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It's geologically very interesting here. The terrain is in motion. Over the years, material breaks off the steep face here and there, so that fortunately it shifts very slowly towards …

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13.1 km

Old orchard-lined avenue in the Göttingen City Forest and Kerstlingeröder Feld

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A beautiful path (unfortunately asphalted) lined with old fruit trees.

Please note here, however.
The Kerstlingeröder field is a nature reserve.
Picking the fruit is therefore FORBIDDEN.
There are many …

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