The Vosges, France. Walk recommendations?

[Jon and Jen]

Heading over to France at short notice to The Vosges region. Can anyone recommend some walks around this area? We will be camping at a municipal campsite but will possibly tour around a few. Have the car with us so can potter about locally. Thanks.

[Skyelines]

I can't offer walking advice as I only visited the Vosge region on a university forestry field trip many years ago.

As I recall it is heavily forested (unsurprisingly for a field trip) and the forests go to the tops of the hills. We stayed in La Bresse which is a popular cross country ski centre so there were lots of tracks in the forests.

[rogasb]

We have been to Barr three times now. There are multiple walks which pass through the centre of the town and are well marked (including the Pilgrims' Way).
There is a map close to the large patisserie in the middle of town showing the routes maintained by the local walkers group.
I can particularly recommend the walk to Mont Sainte-Odile, and if you are fed up with trees there are innumerable tracks through the vineyards which invariable (in our case) lead to a patisserie in a small village.

[StevenF]

I have been to the vosges twice now, I would recommend walking to the Hohneck (starting from Mittlach) , a walk to the ballon d'alsace (starting from Sewen) is also very nice.
I always sleep in a ferme-auberge and walk from one to the other.

[jacob]

I don't know if you have seen these (link in link) already:

https://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=70388