Cycling like a Kaiser – From lake to lake in Austria's Salzkammergut

As the Salzkammergut cycle path is a circular route, you can, as already mentioned, get on at any point without any problems. The most affordable option is clearly in the city of Salzburg. If you want, you could even travel by plane. However, it is more environmentally friendly by train. Here you will… read more

The slightly more demanding variant of the first stage on the Salzkammergut cycle path also leads you from the city of Salzburg via Eugendorf to the hill just before Enzersberg, from where you can see the Drachenwand in the distance. Before you turn five kilometers later from the cycle path, which here… read more

The second stage takes you from Gries via Sankt Gilgen and Strobl on Lake Wolfgang to the imperial city of Bad Ischl. If you want, you can make a detour to St Wolfgang in the Salzkammergut on the opposite side of the lake just behind Strobl. Alternatively, it is possible to take the ferry from Gschwendt… read more

From Bad Ischl past Bad Goisern, you follow the glittering Hallstätter See on its east bank and at the end of it you make a small U-turn to the northwest to cycle a little further to Hallstatt. Alternatively, you can shorten the stage by ferry at various points: for example at the Uferwirt “Seeraunzn… read more

It's a bit mountainous today. From Hallstatt you work your way up the Koppentraun to Bad Aussee. From here you follow the gently rising Grundlseer Traun to the lake of the same name, at the end of which your day's destination is in Gößl.



On the way you can make a detour to the Koppenbrüller cave as a… read more

Today's stage is almost the most demanding of the entire collection, with a climb of almost 500 meters on a gravel track. Therefore I would like to briefly remind you that you can alternatively skip stage 5. For the beautiful mountain panorama that awaits you today, the "small" excursion is definitely… read more

On stage number 6 you drive from Bad Aussee via Altaussee and Bad Ischl to Ebensee am Traunsee. The day does not start unspectacular: after the first short but crisp climb, you can let your gaze wander over the Altaussee plateau on the plateau of Altaussee, with the Trisselwand majestically enthroned… read more

At least half of today's day is entirely devoted to Lake Traunsee, the western bank of which you follow to Gmunden to its northern end. From now on you part with the Traun and cross the northern foothills of the Höllengebirge to Seewalchen am Attersee.



The route on the banks of Lake Traunsee leads mainly… read more

From Seewalchen you drive along the west bank of the Attersee to Unterach where the Mondsee merges over the less than three kilometers long Seeache into the Attersee, which is a little lower down. At Mondsee you follow the east bank of the second half of the day to its northern end.



You start the stage… read more

The path now leads you further and further west, back to your starting point in Salzburg. On today's stage you drive from Mondsee to Irrsee and via Straßwalchen to Mattsee in the idyllic Salzburg Lake District.



You will have noticed that you are leaving the large mountain lakes more and more behind you… read more

You can afford a little dangle to the north to pass the fascinating land bridge between Mattsee, Grabensee and Obertrumer See, then it goes southwards, back towards Salzburg.



Shortly after Obertrum am See a small hill awaits you, but it is quite easy to master. Then it goes down to Salzach on the German… read more