There is no protected landscape in the Little Thuringian Forest. An application in the early 1990s was never implemented. Maps and publications implying the contrary do not refer to the geological rock complex described above, but the wooded ridges that rise to the north and northwest of it, including peaks such as the Donnersberg, Schleusinger Berg, Schneeberg, Kesselberg, Galgenberg, Eichenberg , Ehrenberg etc. that are part of the Buntsandstein formation. Hikers following these maps, for example, from Bischofrod or Eichenberg across Schneeberg to the northwest will actually leave the Little Thuringian Forest, as defined in the geological sense.