AT A GLANCE
Why go?
The Wasserwanderweg in Hittisau is a gentle, roughly 7-kilometre loop in the Bregenzerwald that turns a village walk into a lesson about water. Marked yellow-and-white and set largely beside the Bolgenach stream through light forest, the trail threads past springs, a gorge with overhanging rock, old timber bridges and a water-powered sawmill, with information boards explaining the many roles water plays in this part of Vorarlberg.↗↗
It is an easy, family-friendly outing rather than a mountain hike—only around 80 to 90 metres of climb and descent between roughly 744 and 833 metres of elevation—and the path can be shortened or entered at several points, so you can make the walk as long or as short as you like.↗↗↗
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A trail shaped by the Bolgenach
Everything on the Wasserwanderweg revolves around water in its literal and landscape-forming senses. The route follows a stretch of the Bolgenach, a stream that rises on German soil south of the Riedberger Horn and runs some 29 kilometres before joining the Weissach, and it lets you watch that water carve the valley, feed the meadows and once turn wooden machinery. The path is mostly narrow tracks and a secured stretch through the gorge, with only a few small paved sections, so the walk stays close to the bank for much of its length.
