Meadow - forest - mountain

Sharpen your ears and react fast!

This game is wild fun - and there's plenty of space here to run as much as you like. Keep your ears open and score points with quick reactions! 

 Illustration with tree, mountain and meadow for the nature game “Meadow, Forest or Mountain”. | © Österreichs Wanderdörfer

What you need:

👉 Open space & energy 💫
 

How to play

  1. Choose one person to be the caller.   
  2. All others players move freely - within calling distance.  
  3. The caller shouts one of the three words: "Meadow!" - "Forest!" - "Mountain!" - and everyone reacts instantly. 
  4. Examples! Meadow: crouch down and make yourself as small, quiet, and invisible as possible. Forest: get your feet off the trail - anything off-path is allowed. Mountain: climb onto something - or stand on one leg like you're on a peak.  

💡 OUR TIP! Adapt the game to your surroundings - and feel free to invent your own fun versions of "Meadow, Forest or Mountain"!


The sewage plant ...

Clear mountain stream flows over rocks through a wooded slope | © TVB Piesendorf Niedernsill, Foto Harry Liebmann

... as a play zone?  

You bet - and it's surprisingly fascinating! Here in Niedernsill, wastewater from Mittersill, Stuhlfelden, Uttendorf and Niedernsill is cleaned and returned to nature. 

It may be part of everyday life - but water treatment and drinking water cycles require a lot of knowledge and skill. 

Did you know? The biogas produced her powers a combined heat and power plant (65kW). Together with two solar panel systems, 58 % of the plant's electricity can be self-generated!

Want to dive deeper into how water flows in Salzburg (German only)
 

Explore Salzburg's water world


Family hike with creative nature games

Map with themed hiking trail stations between Piesendorf and Niedernsill  | © TVB Piesendorf Niedernsill, Österreichs Wanderdörfer

The Play & Hike trail combines movement, nature and play in a truly special way. 

Over around 7 km between Piesendorf and Niedernsill, you'll discover 12 creative nature games - sometimes active, sometimes calm, but always full of curiosity. Here, hiking becomes a shared family adventure! 
 

Explore all games