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title: "To the wildcat enclosure via Wildcat Forest Experience and Wildcat Trail"
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To the wildcat enclosure via Wildcat Forest Experience and Wildcat Trail
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- 7.26 km long
- Difficulty: difficult
- Condition: difficult
- Great panorama
- Hill walking/climbing

- 3:30 h
- 7.26 km
- 295 m
- 313 m
- 608 m
- 295 m
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- Start: Large parking lot B4 (Nordhäuser Str.)
- Destination: Marienteichbaude

**Hike to the Wildcat Enclosure at Marienteichbaude**

Just a stone's throw from Bad Harzburg, in the heart of the Harz, there is a unique wildcat enclosure at Marienteichbaude. The wildcats can be observed up close from a viewing platform. An information center with changing exhibitions by NABU also offers a direct view of the animals. The wildcats are not the only inhabitants of the enclosure. There is a second enclosure with goats, who share the greened viewing platform of the information center with the visitors. In another area, raccoons have found a home.

Good hiking condition required!

This project was funded with means from the European Regional Development Fund.

Refreshment possibility Marienteichbaude

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Directions

On foot from Bad Harzburg: From Tourist Information Bad Harzburg or large parking lot on B4 approx. 7.3 km via the Wildcat Forest Experience Trail and the Wildcat Trail to Marienteichbaude.

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Equipment

Sturdy footwear required!

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Author´s Tip / Recommendation of the author

Our tip! Start the experience with a hike through the wildcat's habitat from Bad Harzburg.
 The starting point is at the large parking lot on B4, the route is about 7.3 km long and runs via the Wildcat Forest Experience Trail and the Wildcat Trail to the wildcat enclosure at Marienteichbaude. Return is by bus (KVG line 820) hourly.

The hike is less strenuous in the opposite direction, going downhill from Marienteichbaude towards Bad Harzburg large parking lot.

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    - Harz National Park
- Place of interest
    
    
    - Thermal springs
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    - Ice skating/ice rink
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    - Mountain railway/lift
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    0.68 km
    
    
    - Hill walking/climbing

Contact

Wildkatzen-Erlebnispfad

38707 Schulenberg im Oberharz

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