From Hinterweidenthal, the cycle route follows the course of the Weisslauter river (the white Lauter) overhung on either side by enormous pink sandstone rocks with strange shapes. Beyond Dahn, the valley gradually narrows and the afforestation becomes denser and denser. Leaving the forest, the cycle route reaches the town of Wissembourg, whose ramparts contain architectural treasures. Dominated by the abbey of St-Pierre-et-Paul, its half-timbered houses are reflected in the waters of the Lauter which crosses it right through. To the east the valley widens and, once past the Hardt racecourse, the cycle route runs along the old lines of the Lauter, an 18 km defensive structure erected during the War of Spanish Succession, taking the old embankment of the Wissembourg-Lauterbourg railway line. In Lauterbourg, a charming fortified town located at the eastern tip of Alsace, it joins the Rhine forests and nature reserves and joins the Rhine cycle route - EuroVelo 15.
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