The Nordic Walking Route to Bachtelsee

Nature enjoyment from the finest awaits followers of Nordic Walking on the route to Bachtelsee presented here, which has an easy claim and takes about one and a half hours. The tour runs along Wertach near the pretty town of Kaufbeuren, who can visit Füssen holidaymakers before or after the opportunity.

Friends of the gentle endurance sport Nordic Walking come to the ca. 8 Kilometer long tour to Bachtelsee fully at your expense. You can expect wonderful views of picturesque lakes and the Allgäu mountains as well as many varied nature impressions. With a bit of luck, you can even spot beavers on the way, which have settled along the Wertach in recent years. After completing the approximately one and a half hour long tour, which runs on flat paths and has an easy demand, delicious Allgäu delicacies await in the poison hut for strengthening. Start and finish point of the round is the end of the Schelmenhofstraße at Wertachwehr near Kaufbeuren, which can be reached from Füssen in a good half hour by car.

Lace up your sports shoes, pick up the Nordic walking sticks and start at the starting point in a southerly direction along Wertach. After approximately 200 Meters cross a small bridge and continue up to a grove in which an information board reveals much worth knowing about the beaver. Enjoy the smells and silence of the forest before the trees slowly clear and reveal wonderful views over lush green meadows on the Allgäu mountain world. Along the Wertach it goes on to a fish staircase, where an information board presents the native fish species in more detail.

Subsequently, take the pedestrian bridge leading over Wertach and continue on an asphalted road, where you pass the electricity company and shore of the picturesque Bärensee. You are travelling here in the Bachtel and Bärensee landscape reserve, where many water birds are native, some of which can certainly be seen during a tour. With a little luck, you will also discover a beaver. You continue hiking to a fork, where you now walk on the right, past meadows and groves, to the Bachtelsee. Here you will find rest benches that invite you to linger before going back on the same route.

After the movement on the soothing Allgäuer Luft, a well-deserved fortification in the poison hut is very popular because of its cozy ambience and home-cooked food, for which only regional and fresh ingredients are used. Indulge your palate here with delicacies such as Kässpatzen and Brezenschnitzel, which can also be enjoyed on beautiful days in the adjacent beer garden. The Gifthütte receives its guests daily, except on Sundays and Mondays.

Before or after the Nordic Walking on the Wertach, it is worth visiting the worth seeing city Kaufbeuren, which is also called "Gate of the Allgäu". Here you can expect sights such as the five-button tower, interesting museums and varied shops where you can fill the shopping bags. This excursion combines soothing movement in the magnificent Allgäu landscape and sightseeing to an all-round successful holiday, after which you return to Füssen with satisfaction.