Discover the surrondings from Boos

In December 2003 the wooden tower „Booser Eifelturm" was built in a protected landscape on a 557 m high mountain called „Schneeberg“. On the top of the 25 m high wooden tower you will have an unique view down to the volcanic crater, the beautiful landscape and its bordering regions „Westerwald” and “Hunsrück”. In the near surrounding you will find the castle ruin „Nürburg“ (678 m) with its well-known race track „Nürburgring”, the „Kaiser-Wilhelm-Tower" on the top of the mountain “Hohe Acht” (747 m) und the mountain “Hochkelberg” (675 m).

There is a lot to discover.

Splendid landscapes with rushing brook valleys, breathtaking escarpments, terrace-like vineyards and traditional towns and villages invite hikers to enjoy themselves and relax. Romantic castles and palaces along the rivers Rhine and Mosel and the conical mountains and crater lakes of the Eifel offer a variety of natural and cultural attractions. More than 26 „Traumpfade“offering various hiking tours which can be made easily during one day. Discover the volcanic region with its high plateaus, vineyards, passing beautiful castles which presenting an unforgettable view above the unique landscape.

The start and end of this route is next to our Guesthouse. Enough parking possibilities can be found. The above shown „Stumpfarm-Logo” will guide you along the whole hiking route. The brim of the hat is showing the direction. Who was “Stumpfarm? More information about Johannes Maier called „Stumpfarm“ can be found along the hiking track.

The name of the well-known race track „Nürburgring“ comes from the castle „Nürburg“ which is only 5 km away from our Guesthouse. The History of the racetrack starts in 1927 which was the opening year. The old mounting and testing track stays in its original mold until 1982.
In 1984 – The Nürburgring reopen after a modernisation period as the most modern and safety race track worldwide. Since today the Grand-Prix track with a length of 4.5 km at this time is connected to the 20.8 km long mounting track “Nordschleife” better known as “Green Hell”. Both race tracks were only combined in a modified way for a couple of races: VLN-Race without “Müllenbachschleife” (24.433 km), the 24-Hours-Race without Mercedes-Arena (25.378 km). Today the Nürburgring is the longest permanent racetrack worldwide.

The volcano parc is located in the Rhine-Moselle-Eifel region, an area ideally suited for hiking trips and other activities around the volcanic region. The Information Centre in Plaidt-Saffig presenting you stories and history facts about the East Eifel volcanos. Come and see how our landscape was shaped and how the locals used the volcanic stones. Travel to the time with a lot of worth known information in a time with active volcanos.

Already at the turn of an era was Mayen on the important Roman road Trier-Andernach and later became a small business location. Here were located to the Middle Ages pottery from the late 3rd century, whose products became popular in Central Europe. Another prehistoric use learned the quarries in the area, whose basalt were processed in Mayen millstones and their tuff to sarcophagi. These sarcophagi were found with significant glass additions to the cemetery (now in the museum at the Genoveva Castle). In late antiquity was a late Roman height mounting on the nearby, 290 meters high Katzenberg.

14 km away from Boos is the climbing forest in Mayen. Over 80 items up to 18 meters above sea level - involved in the old book stock - the fun in the tree is guaranteed for you. From easy to difficult and from low to high - everybody will find his personal challenge.

The game and leisure park Klotten is a leisure park on the Moselle near Klotten in Rhineland-Palatinate.

The park was founded in 1970 as a pure game park by the Hennes family and was taken over by the sons Josef and Hubert Hennes in 1995. Starting in 1996, they started to build toys and rides in addition to the Wildpark. In 2004, the first big attraction was built with the roller coaster The hot ride and a three-stage expansion project was launched at the same time. The Wildwasserbahn To the knightfall of abc rides was completed in April 2012, according to the park, it is the highest with a height of 56 meters, the steepest of 56 ° and a maximum of 75 km / h fastest water run in Germany. In the project plan, a new restaurant is still in place, a date for its implementation has not yet been fixed.

Another attraction in the 300,000 m² park is the bear enclosure, which was renovated in 2003.

The Laacher See is located in the volcanic Eifel near the abbey Maria Laach. This caldera is the largest lake in Rhineland-Palatinate.  The Laacher volcano erupted last from about 10930 v. Chr. Traces of volcanic activity can still be found in the form of volcanic outgassing. The lake is completely surrounded by a high wall and an average of 125 m has a depth of 51 m. It is mainly fed by groundwater and has no natural drainage.

The abbey Maria Laach is a high medieval monastery. It is located on the southwest side of the Laacher  See, four kilometers north of Mendig in the Eifel. It was built as Abbatia ad Lacum, lat. For "Abbey at  See", later Abbatia Lacensis "The lake / Laach belonging Abbey" 1093-1216 as a foundation of Henry II. Of Laach and his wife Adelheid. It was given its present name in 1863. The abbey is part of the Beuron Congregation of the Benedictine order.

The Eltz Castle is a hilltop castle from the 12th century. It lies in the valley of Elz, which separates the Maifeld of the Eifel, south of the town is located at the boundaries of the municipality Wierschem in Rhineland-palatinate to 320 m above sea level. NHN. The building is one of the most famous castles in Germany. How Bürresheim the castle and the castle Lissingen it is one of those fortifications in the Eifel, which could be conquered not.

The castle stands Bürresheim northwest of Mayen on a rocky outcrop in Nettetal. Together with Burg Eltz and the Lissingen Castle is one of the few establishments in the Eifel, which were never conquered or devastated and could survive the wars of the 17th and 18th centuries and the social upheavals of the French Revolution unscathed. Through its unique location on the border of the possessions of the Electorate of Cologne and Kurtrier these archdioceses given the history of the castle with decisively.

For example, the Schalkenmehren Maar Maar is an approximately three kilometers southeast of the town of Daun in the Eifel. Immediately adjacent is the village of Schalkenmehren.

It belongs to the Dauner maars (or for Dauner (Maar) group) and is a Doublemaar, consisting of the western maar lake and the eastern dry. Both originated about 10,500 years ago by a volcanic steam explosion. The lake in the western part of the maar varies in diameter 500-575 m and is up to 21 m deep. The height of the maar is 420.8 m above sea level.  It fills the younger of the two maar kettle. The eastern part of the maar is occupied by a peat bog.

Cochem Castle  (Reichsburg) was mentioned in 1130 for the first time. 1151 sent by King Conrad III. occupied and declared the imperial castle. In 1688 the castle during the Nine Years' War by troops of the French king Louis XIV. was occupied and destroyed in 1689. For a long time remained the castle ruin before it was bought in 1868 by the Berlin merchant Louis Fréderic Jacques Ravené for 300 Goldmark and rebuilt in neo-gothic style. Since 1978 it is owned by the town of Cochem and is now under the management of Reichsburg GmbH.

The suspension bridge Geierlay (official name) or short Geierlay is a pedestrian rope bridge between villages  Mörsdorf and Sosberg. They crossed the river valley Mörsdorfer and with its 360 m length as the longest suspension bridge in Germany.
The maximum height above the ground is less than 100 meters. The weight is 62 tonnes. The supporting structure consists of four lower, closed spiral ropes with a diameter of 40 mm and two upwardly extending open spiral ropes, which additionally serve as handrail and are 32 mm thick. The anchorages of the ropes were each abutment with 6 dywidag anchor rods realized diameter of 63 mm, which were up to 25 m deep cemented into the rock. Oblique below the lower bearing ropes run two parabolic mounted wind load ropes which are mounted at a bias voltage of 100 kN with 9 m deep Geoflex anchors in the rock. These cables, the bridge is guyed transversally downwards, thereby stabilizing the side so that they can not overturn in strong winds and generally shows a damped oscillatory behavior. The bridge carries a maximum load of 76.5 tons, which corresponds to about 950 people at an assumed average weight of 80 kg. The actual cable-stayed bridge was built after the completion of the abutments within four weeks in September, 2015.