Due to its formerly dense and dark afforestation, the Moos is the scene of numerous legends and legendary figures.

The fictional character Simplicius Simplicissimus, who is commemorated on a monument, from the novel Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, lived for several years on the Moos during the Thirty Years' War.

In the municipal territory of Nordrach at a height of 589 m is Gasthaus Moosbach, the highest inn in the county of Ortenau and the whole of the Moos hills.

Hitherto the summits were densely covered with high spruce and fir trees which largely blocked the view from the observation tower.

After the storm had destroyed the trees, instead of the old monoculture, a considerably more varied mixed forest emerged.