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Mackenröder Cliffs – Harz View Tower loop from Göttingen

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Mountain biking trails

Germany

Lower Saxony

Mackenröder Cliffs – Harz View Tower loop from Göttingen

Moderate

4.7

(97)

265

riders

Mackenröder Cliffs – Harz View Tower loop from Göttingen

03:13

39.0km

550m

Mountain biking

Moderate mountain bike ride. Good fitness required. Advanced riding skills necessary. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: July 1, 2026

Tips

Cycling is not permitted along parts of this route

After 13.7 km for 156 m

After 22.3 km for 156 m

After 36.8 km for 55 m

Waypoints

Start point

Train Station

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6.24 km

Trail in front of the Bismarck Tower

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Very easy and fun!

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9.56 km

View over the Göttingen countryside

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Great view over the surrounding area of Göttingen

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13.2 km

Mackenröder Cliffs

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It's geologically very interesting here. The terrain is in motion. Over the years, material breaks off the steep face here and there, so that fortunately it shifts very slowly towards …

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14.5 km

Harz View Tower

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This is, so to speak, the new Mackenröder Spitze. The tower used to stand a little further south and had to make way for the Bundeswehr's small radar post on …

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14.6 km

Observation Tower, Göttingen City Forest

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It's a great walk, there are 52 wooden steps and at the top you have a great view

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19.1 km

Naturwaldparzelle Wallmannort

Forest

22.2 km

Mackenröder Spitze Shelter and Historic Monument

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There used to be an observation tower here, similar to the Harz view tower to the north, which did not exist at the time. The tower had to give way …

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22.6 km

A former military training area from the time of the Iron Curtain, when Göttingen was still the location of the Bundeswehr. Since then, it has been a gem in the Göttingen city forest as a local recreation area.

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36.8 km

Gaußhaus

Ruins

39.0 km

End point

Train Station

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

27.9 km

5.08 km

4.40 km

1.64 km

Surfaces

10.7 km

9.22 km

9.07 km

5.73 km

4.18 km

157 m

Elevation

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Highest point (430 m)

Lowest point (150 m)

Weather

Friday 3 July

22°C

11°C

46 %

Additional weather tips

Max wind speed: 27.0 km/h

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Comments

July 9, 2024,Trail Tour durch den Göttinger Wald

Despite the approximately 30°C, it was pleasantly cool in the forest but this meant that there was often still mud in the depressions.

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July 5, 2022,Schöne Trails im Gö-Wald eMTB

A relaxed afternoon round for three, without coffee :)
Many trails in the Geismar forest that are new to me.
Again the "new" trail from Kerstlingröder field down towards Herberhausen, nice curves, nice descent.
Likewise, once again the Mackenrode Trail. Always a nice flow.
Nice drive over the plateau between Roringen and Herberhausen, nice view. but very dry meadows, almost …

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June 24, 2022,"Waldbaden" am Morgen eMTB

Today again early on the eMTB.
The obligatory round to Kerstlingröder Feld, a calming atmosphere in the early morning.
From Großlengden at the edge of the forest in the direction of Mackenrode, always a wonderful view over the Bramketal to the same.
Then searched in vain for the trail below the cliff:(
So the classic at the top of the …

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