The circular route runs through the Orketal and meets the Lichtenfelser Panoramaweg in the Düsteren Tal, then turns off near Sachsenberg and leads back to the starting point at the foot of the Eisenberg.
Route 8, which circles the Eisenberg, is exactly 2 kilometers long. Gold was mined here as early as the Middle Ages until mining came to a standstill during the Thirty Years' War. Today mining is unprofitable because the distribution in the rock is very fine and it would mean serious interference with nature. Streams that rise near the Eisenberg transport gold particles into the Eder. First, the circular route runs through the Orketal and leads up the forest. In the Düsteren Tal it meets the Lichtenfelser Panoramaweg, then turns off near Sachsenberg and leads back to the starting point at the foot of the Eisenberg.