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Hiking Collection by visittirol
18
Tours
49:51 h
101 mi
14,150 ft
Austria’s Tyrol is great in both summer and winter. With magical winter huts, mystical frozen lakes, spectacular views, and kilometres of quiet hiking trails, you can fully enjoy the snowy silence of winter here.
As the temperatures fall, the regions of Achensee, Kitzbüheler Alps, Eastern Tyrol, Kufsteinerland, Wilder Kaiser, Wipptal, Seefeld, Tyrolean Oberland, Lechtal and Innsbruck are transformed into wonderlands. We’ve selected 18 easy to moderate hikes that allow you to discover Tyrol’s winter highlights with the entire family in tow.
The Kitzbüheler Alps are wild and romantic. Here, you can complete a circular hike along a Roman road through snowy landscapes between Oberndorf and Kitzbühel. There is also a great exploratory Tour at the foot of the Kitzbüheler Horn. You can choose from a range of guided Tours too. There’s something for every ability level in winter. Take a look, here: kitzbueheler-alpen.com/en/kam/tyrol.html
In summer, you can plunge into the crystal-clear water of Lake Achensee in the Achen Valley. In winter, you watch the mist rise in the morning, revealing the snow-covered peaks of the Karwendel Mountains. Lake Achensee is an amazing place to go on winter hikes such as a Tour to the Gramaialm or the Bichlbach Circular Trail. If you’re up for an adventure, the guided hikes with a nature park ranger might be perfect for you: achensee.com/en/activities/winter-activities/winter-magic/winter-hiking/#regdl=categories
In the Kufsteinerland, we recommend hiking to the most beautiful place in Austria, the spectacular Antonius Chapel, which was awarded this title in 2016. You can find more information about this special place here: kufstein.com/de/ausflugsziele-sehenswuerdigkeiten-tirol/kraftplaetze-bewusstseinsplaetze/antoniuskapelle-kaisertal.html
Another well worth visiting destination is the Hintersteiner See in the Wilder Kaiser region. You can find more info about it here: wilderkaiser.info/de/region/hintersteiner-see.html
Winter hikes are healthy – especially in the Wipptal valley. You can find out more information (in German) here: wipptal.at/de/wipptal-erleben/gesundheitswandern. We recommend the Tours through the Schnitztal valley and around the Maria Waldrast monastery.
Top up your vitamin D levels on the sunny Seefeld Plateau. Here, you hike through the forests of the Wildmoos protected area and visit a cosy alpine pasture. You can also try your hand at a multi-day Tour: seefeld.com/en/winter-3/winterhiking/long-distance-hiking
The Lechtal valley, Tyrolean Oberland and Mieminger Plateau in the Innsbruck region also reveal the wonders of hiking in Tyrol. On the Mieminger Plateau, you can taste regional specialities in its farm shops along the gourmet route. In the Lechtal valley, you hike along thundering waterfalls to magical winter huts: lechtal.at/en/winter/active-winter/huts-pasture-huts-in-the-winter. In the Tyrolean Oberland, you gaze upon panoramic views from the Kleiner Mutzkopf.
The hikes in Tyrol in winter are as multifaceted as the regions themselves. We hope that this Collection gives you some good tips for your hiking holiday. See you in the snow!
Enjoyment is the focus of this approximately 13-kilometer circular hike starting in Obermieming. As you hike through the wintry landscape of the Mieminger Plateau, you will come across several rustic farm shops that are run with a lot of passion.
If you walk the hike clockwise, you will first pass the…
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Hiking Highlight
You can discover Austria's largest nature park from a different perspective once a week. On a three-hour winter hike, which is also suitable for children, you can immerse yourself in times long past. You will learn more about how people and animals used to live in close contact with nature, learn about 700 years of mining in the Halltal and the beginnings of alpinism as well as the importance of hunting and forestry. With a bit of luck, you can also spot chamois or ibex on the hike through one of the Swarovski binoculars provided.
It starts every Friday between December 1st, 2022 and March 31st, 2023. The meeting point is the Halltal car park in Absam. The price for guests is 5 euros, the normal rate is 10 euros per person. You should bring weatherproof clothing and provisions with you for the hike. You can register up to the day before at the tourist office in Hall in Tirol on +43.5223.455440 or info@hall-wattens.at.
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Starting in Oberndorf in Tirol, today you circle the Kitzbüheler Ache, which connects the place with the nearby Kitzbühel. The so-called Römerweg takes you over 15 kilometers not only into a powdery, snowy landscape and a network of cleared, flat paths, but also into lively Kitzbühel and the farmhouse…
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In 2016, the Kaisertal was voted the most beautiful place in the country by thousands of Austrians. This slightly more than eight kilometer hike will quickly show you why. From Sparchen am Inn you make your way over the bridge on the Kaiserbach to the oldest inn in the valley. There you can let Gitti…
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Sources that are hidden from you in the ground feed the crystal clear Hintersteiner See on the Wilder Kaiser. Since the lake only has an area of 55 hectares, you can walk around it once on this idyllic hike. The starting point is the small town of Hinterstein, from where you start your tour on the northern…
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A wide, white area extends in front of you and on your right the peaks Hohe Burg and Pardaster Kögl rise up into the clouds. During this tour from Trins to Gschnitz you can just let your mind wander and enjoy the winter landscape on a flat stretch. In both places you have the opportunity to stop in one…
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Sugar-covered tree tops and a snow-covered high moor: this winter hike around the Maria Waldrast monastery offers you a unique natural spectacle in addition to the highest pilgrimage monastery in Europe. If the moor is a special place in the middle of the mountains, especially in summer, the landscape…
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You will find a total of 12 alpine pastures and shelters in the alpine paradise Gaistal, which you can get to know from its wintry side during this hike. From the parking lot at the beginning of the valley you start the eight-kilometer tour, which always follows the course of the Leutascher Ache. You…
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In the middle of the Seefeld region - Tyrol's high plateau - lies the small Wildmoos nature reserve on the Seefeld plateau. Beautiful winter hiking trails take you from Seefeld through the mountainous landscape first to the Wildmoossee and then to the Wildmoosalm. In addition to the Wildmoossee, there…
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This moderately difficult winter hike to the Black Lake is waiting for you at the border triangle of Tyrol, Engadin and South Tyrol. You hike for almost nine kilometers from Nauders and quickly immerse yourself in the winter world around the Kleinmutzenkopf. There are some vertical meters to conquer…
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This hike from the Kleinmutzenkopf down to the village of Nauders is a wonderful toboggan adventure for the whole family. Your excursion begins at the valley station of the Mutzkopf double chairlift, which you take up to the Kleiner Mutzkopf. From there you make your way up the snow-covered forest paths…
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Rushing loudly, the Rotlech makes its way through the gorge and then falls several meters in front of you. You will experience this spectacle twice on this winter hike, on the way there and back. The starting point of the hike is the place Rinnen, from which you first hike to the Rotlechfall and then…
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This relaxed hiking tour, which you start in the small town of Oberbach, is quiet and, above all, suitable for families. The hiking trail leads you over five kilometers into the wooded and mountainous landscape around the Lech Valley. You hike to the Lechtaler Hexenkessel, a restaurant where you can…
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With a depth of up to 133 meters, the Achensee is the largest lake in Tyrol - and at the same time one of the most popular destinations for day trippers. The lake lies at 380 meters above the Inn valley and separates the Karwendel mountains and the Brandenberg Alps from each other. In winter the lake…
Your tour today starts at the beautiful Achensee. It is one of the most popular lakes in Tyrol and enchants you even in winter with its incomparable backdrop of the Karwendel and Brandenberg Alps. The special highlight of the tour is the contrast between the gentle alpine landscape and the rugged mountains…
The Bichlach Rundweg combines the most beautiful things the Kitzbühel region has to offer for hikers in winter over its almost nine kilometers: perfectly groomed trails, great views of mountain beauties such as the Kitzbüheler Horn and the Kaiser Mountains and dreamy sections of the path through snow…
The Dorfberg is the local mountain of Kartitsch. This circular walk leads you from Kartitscher district St. Oswald on a developed winter hiking trail in the direction of Dorfberg. On the circular route you will enjoy beautiful, quiet larch forests and magnificent views of the mountain peaks of the Carnic…
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The Innerland circular walk combines wonderful panoramic views of the Gailtal and the Carnic Alps with quiet and enchanted hiking trails through snowy mountain forests.
From the district of Rauchenbach you wander across a snowy mountain meadow. Soon you reach the edge of the forest, where the hiking path…
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The small town of Hintherthiersee with its surrounding farms is a real gem in the Kufstein landscape - especially in winter. The best way to enjoy the snow-white winter landscape is on this 6.6-kilometer circular hike. The best thing to do is take your sledge with you, as there is a toboggan run at the…
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