In the wildlife park Lüneburger Heide there is now a treetop path. According to the park, the newly opened "Heide Himmel" is the highest such facility in northern Germany. At a height of about 20 meters, the path leads over a length of about 700 meters over the trees, the attached lookout tower is about 45 meters high.
From the path located in Hanstedt-Nindorf (Harburg district), visitors should be able to look around 40 kilometers to Hamburg, weather permitting. More than 20 environmental and learning stations should provide background information.
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Treetop trails: more than promisingThe facility is barrier-free, so it is also open thanks to an elevator in the lookout tower about wheelchair users. According to a park spokeswoman 750 cubic meters of larch wood and 70,000 screws were installed. Treetop trails already exist in Lower Saxony near Bad Harzburg and in Bad Iburg.
However, it also goes up in many other places in Germany: One of Europe's longest treetop trails lies in the Panarbora Nature Park near Waldbröl, 1635 meters long and opened in 2015. One of the first in the country is located near Bad Langensalza in the Hainich National Park in Thuringia (opened in 2005), "hovering" is the Hoherodskopf treetop in the Vogelsberg Hessian designed.
In Bad Harzburg or in the Steigerwald, the stairs in a circle always lead upwards. Specializing in spiral towers is the company Erlebnis Akademie in Bad Kötzting in the east of Bavaria. Since 2009, they have erected buildings up to 44 meters high at four locations in Germany: in the Bavarian Forest, on Rügen, in the Black Forest and on the Saarschleife.