Next to Frankfurt, Lahntal and Weser cycle paths invite you

The north and east of Hesse are part of the catchment area of the Weser, their source rivers Fulda and Werra flow through Hesse over 215 km and 95 km respectively. In contrast, the rest of the country is drained towards the Rhine, which forms the border with Rhineland-Palatinate in the southwest over a length of 107 km. Its main tributaries for Hesse are Main and Lahn, but the Neckar also flows a short distance through the extreme south of Hesse.

Frankfurt am Main Airport is by far the most important airport in Germany and one of the ten largest in the world. Not far southeast of Frankfurt Airport is the Frankfurt-Egelsbach airfield, which is frequented by smaller machines.
A network of cycle paths runs through Hesse. The nine long-distance cycle paths (R1–R9) as well as the Lahntal cycle path, the Weser cycle path and the Werratal cycle path are of national importance. There are also a number of regional routes which, like the long-distance cycle paths, are particularly important for cycle tourism, for example the Vogelsberger Südbahn cycle path or the volcano cycle path.

Hesse's only national park is the Kellerwald-Edersee National Park. Part of it has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site “Ancient Beech Forests and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe” since 2011. The Messel Pit, a world-class fossil deposit, has been a World Heritage Site since 1995.

The financial centre of Frankfurt am Main is an important international financial centre. The first thing to think of is the European Central Bank and the Deutsche Bundesbank. The headquarters of the four largest German banks: Deutsche Bank, DZ Bank, the development bank KfW and Commerzbank are based in Frankfurt am Main, as well as numerous smaller banks, public and cooperative credit institutions and more than 150 branches of foreign banks