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Parking is available on a roadside path off the Nideck road (D218), on the left as you arrive from Oberhaslach.
There is a large car park about 300 m further on, near the Auberge de la Cascade du Nideck.
(S/E) Drive carefully up the road for about 200 m towards Oberhaslach until you reach a crossroads and the entrance to the Haslach Forest.
(1) Take a small path on your left that climbs steeply, not to be confused with the wide path that leads to the houses. The path is marked with a red triangle.
(2) Just after the Hirshfels Rock, the path splits in two. Take the one on the right, marked with a yellow triangle, and climb up to the Nideck car park and the D218.
(3) Continue left on the road and pass the Nideck forest house. Shortly after the forest house, a small steep path climbs up to your right. This is theGR®531marked with a blue rectangle, which you will need to follow for a while. It crosses a wide forest path and numerous trails several times. After a long climb, the path begins a slight descent. Stay alert for a few hundred metres so you don't miss a small, hard-to-see junction with a path marked with a red cross.
(4) The red cross marker is quite visible when you reach this crossroads. Climb left along this path, which will take you to the summit of Schneeberg.
(5) When you pass the Schneeberg Refuge, continue along the path towards the spring. About 200 metres after the spring, you will come to a fork below the summit.
(6) Continue along the path uphill and do not turn right towards Wangenbourg. This path will take you to a large rock that towers over Schneeberg, known as Lottelfels.
(7) From the summit, retrace your steps a few metres and descend the small steps. The descent route follows the Red Rectangle (GR®53) trail southwards and then south-west. The descent is steeper and you will cross a forest path. Further on, theGR® meets another wide forest path and merges with a Red Triangle marked path.
(8) The descent route starts on the left of the wide path. It is a fairly steep trail that ventures into the undergrowth and returns to the Maison Forestière du Nideck.
(3) From the forest house car park, follow the path marked "Cascade, Ruines" (Waterfall, Ruins), following the red triangle markings southwards. You will come to a fork.
(9) At the fork, leave theGR®53, which branches off to the right, and keep to the left to avoid taking the path that descends. The path runs alongside Nideck. Pass a footbridge on the right, where theGR®53comes from, to reach the Nideck Waterfall.
(10) Shortly after the waterfall viewpoint, leave the red triangle markings and take a series of well-maintained stair-like switchbacks on the right that lead to the foot of the waterfall, now following the red rectangle markings ofthe GR®53.
(11) From the foot of the waterfall, theGR® trail leads you to the Auberge du Nideck.
(12) Once you arrive at the inn, follow the tarmac road to the left to reach the car park about 300 m further on (S/E).
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