Geroldsauer Wasserfall Hike: Exploring the Black Forest
When my best friend saw a hot guy who posted a reel about “Bali in the Black Forest”, he could hardly talk about anything else. So of course we had to explore it the first chance we had! The destination was the “Gay”roldsauer Waterfalls (Geroldsauer Wasserfall to be precise, but the overpowering gay vibes of my friend must’ve influenced my English Google Maps pronunciation 😀 ) close to Baden-Baden and led me once again to my beloved Schwarzwaldhochstraße.
It turned out to be an unexpected flowery paradise!
There are multiple routes for trekking around the Geroldsauer Waterfall:
- 3km Waterfall hike – Wasserfall-Rundweg
- 10.5km Kreuzfelsen trek – Kreuzfelsen-Rundweg
- 18km trek to Badener Höhe via Scherrhof and Kreuzfelsen
- 45.5km long Panoramaweg Baden-Baden.
A MUST-do is the short waterfall hike (Wasserfall-Rundweg), which is a 1 hr hike (can be slightly shortened even for the lazy ones) through a romantic creek valley in the midst of a shady, jungle-like forest and – if you come to the Geroldsauer Wasserfall at the right time of year (beginning of May till June) – beautiful Rhododendrons flowers! I wasn’t prepared for this sight at all and, gardener and plant-lover that I am, I walked half the way in pure bliss.
We had planned our trip to Geroldsauer Wasserfall in such a way that we could have lunch there at the restaurant Waldgaststätte Bütthof. We were lucky to get a table though! If you happen to go there, it would be better to book a table in advance. The food was quite lovely and I can definitely recommend it!
Since we had enough time and energy left, we started the Kreuzfelsen-Rundweg trek next. It continued on the same creek and was partly almost more beautiful than the waterfall hike (just without the waterfall). We made a mistake though, didn’t check the map and must’ve taken a wrong turn somewhere because we came back to the parking – a mistake I only realised much later. From there we found the correct but insanely steep path up the mountain.
Halfway through, we met a family who pointed us in the even steeper direction and gave us the important advice to look out for kind of a hidden left path up the mountain. Of course, we missed it (extremely easy to overlook our defense!), and we reached some other, much wider and easier path. After a lot of confusion and half an hour’s detour, we finally reached the peak! It was absolutely worth it!
Since we already walked a lot more than planned, we cut the trek short and went straight down again, missing out on half of the route – which would’ve been nice too I’m sure. Do check out this reel, it captures it so nicely.
My friend had the glorious idea to end our trip at the Bobbahn Mehliskopf, a mountain coaster, and we both got super excited. I had been wanting to do it for so long – that was until I took my first ride 😀
You can witness the horror in its full screamy glory on Instagram.
It was only half an hour away from the Geroldsau, so if you’re in town and have some time left (they close at 6pm), you should definitely go for it.
We ended our trip with a short stop at the Schwarzenbacher Talsperre, a 400 m-long dam. For those of you who’d like to explore this side more, here are some treks around the area (both Herrenwies and Forbach are extremely beautiful!).
Although we grew up only an hour away from these places, we hardly ever visited any of them – such missed opportunities! Like most people, we weren’t even aware that we had the most beautiful places right around the corner. It took my best friend seeing a hot guy taking a dip in the waterfall to get the push to explore more. Maybe your reason to get out there will be this Poser on Tour 😉
If you’d like to see more of my black forest excursions, check out my last post about Allerheiligen Waterfalls.
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