Adventure trail Dead Moor

The adventure trail leads over 7 kilometers through the nature reserve Totes Moor. It starts either at the parking lot of the Alte Moorhütte or at the Großenheidorner Tower. In total, seven adventure stations show the typical animal and plant life or the use of the moors and explain how the nature park protects this rare landscape.

Großenheidorner Tower
Coming from the south, the educational trail first leads along an old peat canal to the Großenheidorner Tower. The viewpoint not only offers a panoramic view over the eastern shore of Lake Steinhude, but visitors also learn how the lake is slowly silting up - and how nature reacts to it.

At the peat pits
For centuries, peat was a vital source of fuel for the local population. On the edge of the adventure trail lies an old extraction site that nature has since reclaimed. The information board tells about how tough life as a peat farmer really was.

Water lily lake
A wooden walkway leads to the small water lily lake. Hard to believe: where today sky-blue moor frogs croak, there was a sand hill 60 years ago.

If you want to know how the mountain turned into a lake, you should take a closer look at the station.

Moor footbridge
The adventure trail turns to a special survivor: because the sundew doesn't get enough nutrients from the soil, the carnivorous plant supplements its diet with insects that get stuck on its sticky leaves. But bog moss or Scots pine also feel right at home on the sides of the moor footbridge - even though the nature park doesn't like some species here at all. Why? The information boards on site reveal that!

On the other side of the path, the next viewpoint awaits: from the tower at the moor footbridge, you can observe how a former peat extraction area is evolving into a flourishing heath landscape.

At Moorstrasse
During a brief stop, passers-by can learn something about the history of the moors here - from natural paradise to peat supplier and back again. The station also explores why moors are so important for climate protection.

Moor hut footbridge
Not all moors are the same - but how do low moors, transitional moors, and high moors differ? And which animals and plants live where? The panels on the moor hut footbridge explain this! There is also a lot to see off the path, as the moor hut footbridge winds its way through the green idyll on the northern shore of Lake Steinhude.

Mountains, islands, and (Steinhude) Lake - if you want to see everything at a glance, you have to stop by the new moor hut. Around the observation tower, the agile grebes breed. Incredible: the information board reveals what the alleged origin of Lake Steinhude has to do with a stomping giant and weeping dwarfs.