Long-distance hiking & pilgrimage trails in the Mühlviertel

With its long-distance hiking and pilgrimage trails, the Mühlviertel offers a unique opportunity to combine an experience of nature and inner peace. Far away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life, you will find space to recharge your batteries.
Once you have caught the hiking bug in the Mühlviertel holiday region, you will never let it go.

The Johannesweg offers 84 kilometres of access to more humanity in three, four or five daily stages. With 12 stations that invite you to linger and reflect, as well as impressive places of power and vantage points, this pilgrimage trail offers a unique opportunity to enjoy nature and find inner peace. The Castles and Palaces Trail stretches over 130 cross-border kilometres. From the Vltava via the Mühlviertel to the Danube, 19 historic walls are waiting to be discovered. Over a distance of around 50 kilometres, the Stoakraftweg through the Mühlviertel Nature Park, which invites you to explore ravine forests, flowering meadows and numerous impressive granite formations.
The Nordwaldkammweg follows the heights of the Central European watershed and leads over 144 kilometres from the highest elevations of the Bohemian Forest right through the Mühlviertel. An alternative route for the return march runs for 179 kilometres, partly on Czech soil. A particularly attractive section is the North Forest Ridge Panorama Trailwhich runs for around 95 kilometres around Freistadt.
The Path of Deceleration is a long-distance hiking trail that connects the most beautiful energy and power spots in the Bohemian Forest in the Mühlviertel holiday region over 165 kilometres. Depending on their stamina, hiking enthusiasts can choose between variants of 4, 6 or 9 days, with the 9-day variant covering a total length of 165 kilometres.

And as the name suggests: hiking takes you back to the pace that your body and mind were made for.