Along the nature trail, 14 display boards provide information about typical habitats and natural history features such as geology, flora, and fauna of the "Lausche" nature reserve as well as the surroundings of Waltersdorf.
The distinctive phonolite mountain Lausche (Luž, 793 m) rises above the landscape from the main ridge of the Lusatian Mountains about 2 km south of the center of Waltersdorf and 700 m north of the settlement Myslivny (Jägerdörfel) near Horní Světlá (Oberlichtenwalde). Its size is particularly noticeable when viewed from the north or east, while from the southern and western sides it appears only as a relatively small knoll. The Lausche is the highest point of the Lusatian / Zittau Mountains; for Germans it has special significance because it is also the highest peak in the German territory east of the Elbe. It was mentioned for the first time in 1538 as Spitzberg, later also called Heilstein or Hickelstein. The inhabitants of Waltersdorf often called it Mittagsberg as the sun is seen directly above its summit around noon. The current German name Lausche was first recorded in 1631 and the Czech name Luž was first used in Kafka's hiking guide from 1909. The name Hückelstein or Hickelstein is still used in Germany to refer to the lower northwestern subpeak.
