Circular hiking trail through the Great Peat Bog (red)

The Great Peat Bog is located between the Wiehengebirge and Mittelland Canal in the area of the city of Lübbecke and the municipality of Hille. The parking lot at the Lübbecke-Gehlenbeck outdoor pool (on the L 771) offers ample parking space and is also the starting point for the hike into the Great Peat Bog. After an initial orientation (information board), the path leads past old poplars and opens up views of natural meadows, pools, ponds, and streams. Following the next crossroad to the left of the red markings, and then passing a barrier to the right of the peat bog pool through a pasture and birch grove, we reach the unique raised bog in NRW with its typical high moor animal and plant life.

Visitors to the Great Peat Bog can also try out the new listening tour "Hike through the Great Peat Bog". With the free listening tour app on your smartphone, the tour can first be downloaded and then accompanied by audio contributions through the nature reserve.

After leaving the boardwalk behind, the path continues over springy peat sods and along a water surface to the first observation tower. A view from the tower over the moorland and to the Wiehengebirge is highly recommended. Once at the bottom, a boardwalk leads to the MOOR EXPERIENCE PATH, which runs to the right. Here you can learn interesting facts about the plants and animals of the moor landscape as well as about bog bodies. In the warm season, there is also the opportunity to experience the moor with all your senses in a moor mud pit.

Behind the shelter, the path continues past meadows and a field hedge to the Flöthe stream. The red trail marker now points to the other side of the stream. Following a meadow path, we are now in the low moor area and after a short distance, we reach another observation tower. From the tower back and now right along a paved path to the moor farm. On the grounds operated by the Nature Conservation Society NABU, district association Minden-Lübbecke, there is a sheep farm. The NABU provides information on animals, plants, and insects using educational panels on the site.

The hiking trail now leads sharply to the right past young pollard willows through meadows and then to the right, before after about 300 m we enter the Great Peat Bog again. A boardwalk leads through a wetland with willows and past gnarled pollard willows to a riparian forest, where there is the last opportunity to take a look at the fascinating raised bog from an observation tower. The remaining stretch is lined with different shrub and tree species before turning left onto the familiar stretch back to the parking lot.