The Schloss-Café is located at the top of the mountain making the Lorettoberg a popular destination for a getaway, strolling and a local recreation area.

The eastern main edge fault of the Upper Rhine Rift drags through Lorettoberg and the Höllentalbahn runs through the mountain via the Lorettotunnel.

When the tunnel was built, a "geological window" was left open, through which the fault can be seen and where further decline of the Upper Rhine Rift can be measured.

[4] The 22.6-meter-high (74 ft) Hildaturm[5] (English: Hilda tower) has been standing on the subpeak at the north side of the main summit since 1886.

[9] It was at this very spot that French king Louis XV watched the shelling of Freiburg by his troops in 1744 during War of the Austrian Succession.

Before the ascent, there is the Chalet Widmer on the right, a Swiss-style prefabricated house of 1887 which was shown in the same year in the Upper Rhine crafts' exhibition[13] and meanwhile is under conservation of historic buildings.

[14] Further South there is the Silvicultural Research Institute of Baden-Wuerttemberg and the "Foresthouse", a non-profit organization sponsored education and information center on the subjects of forest and sustainability.