Cascade Gorge – Red moor loop from Sandberg

Hiking trails & Routes

Germany

Hesse

Regierungsbezirk Kassel

Landkreis Fulda

Gersfeld (Rhön)

Cascade Gorge – Red moor loop from Sandberg

Moderate

4.6

(36)

125

hikers

Cascade Gorge – Red moor loop from Sandberg

03:06

10.9km

260m

Hiking

Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily walkable paths. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: October 28, 2026

Tips

Your route passes through protected areas

Please check local regulations for:

Kernzone des NSG Rotes Moor

Naturpark Hessische Rhön

Waypoints

Start point

Parking

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338 m

Cascade in the Kaskaden Gorge

Highlight • Waterfall

Here you can see one of the cascades. The Feldbach has dug into the terrain and created the gorge, but is held back here and there by hard layers of rock.

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824 m

Cascade Gorge

Highlight • Gorge

Super varied forest route with bridges and river rushing!

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916 m

Wooden Bridge Over the Feldbach

Highlight • Bridge

One of the numerous crossings on the Moorweg... in good shape

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2.17 km

Upper Bridge, Kaskadenschlucht

Highlight • Bridge

In the upper part of the Kaskadenschlucht this is the first bridge from the direction of "Rotes Moor", from which one gets a first impression of the small brook, which at the end carries some water masses with it.

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3.15 km

Red moor

Highlight • Natural Monument

Nice hiking trail on planks. Interesting information and a great landscape. A trip for the whole family.

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3.46 km

Observation tower with a view of the Heidelstein and Rotes Moor

Highlight • Viewpoint

Great wooden observation tower with a view of the peat quarrying area in earlier years... accessible via the Bohlensteg

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4.20 km

Carpathian Birch Grove – Rotes Moor

Highlight • Forest

Often you will never find such a birch forest... are Carpathian birches... should not be missed

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10.6 km

Entrance to the Cascade Gorge

Highlight • Gorge

The first 200 m cascade gorge are parking lot. It should be better solved. Otherwise, of course, a wonderful corner!

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10.9 km

End point

Parking

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

8.49 km

2.20 km

182 m

Surfaces

6.05 km

2.92 km

1.07 km

497 m

318 m

< 100 m

Elevation

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Highest point (810 m)

Lowest point (590 m)

Weather

Thursday 12 November

2°C

-1°C

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Comments

May 26, 2022,Rhöntour, Rotes Moor und Kaskadenschlucht.... 26.5.22

Hiking day on Ascension Day, once also named for the ham tour....
This time we went to the Rhön.

At the beginning we went uphill and along the water through the cascade gorge.
Part of the route leads on wooden planks through the Rote Moor, a high moor in the Hessian Rhön and at the same time a very old …

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