From Hof, in northern Bavaria, its only 9,831 kilometres.
Whistler resident Max Gotz recently visited his uncle in Hof and brought a Whistler sign post to the Hofer Fernweh-Park.
The park, opened by filmmaker Klaus Beer in 1999, has sign posts from all over the world. Beer copied the idea of a sign post forest from Watson Lake in the Yukon, which he visited while making a film documentary.