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Karren Viewing Platform – Karren Cable Car Upper Station loop from Bezirk Dornbirn

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Karren Viewing Platform – Karren Cable Car Upper Station loop from Bezirk Dornbirn

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Karren Viewing Platform – Karren Cable Car Upper Station loop from Bezirk Dornbirn

02:26

7.48km

290m

Hiking

Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Mostly accessible paths. Sure-footedness required.

Last updated: June 12, 2026

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Restaurant

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2 m

View of the Rhine Valley and Lake Constance from Karren

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The 12-meter-long walkway, surrounded by glass, offers a breathtaking view of the Swiss mountains, the Rhine Valley and Lake Constance, so to speak, "standing in the middle of nowhere." To take this unique impression home with you, you can use the selfie point to take a souvenir photo and have it printed out on site.

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Karren Viewing Platform

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Anyone who's ever on the cart must necessarily walk the root path to the top of the Staufens. The rather challenging path runs through a beautiful mountain forest. As the name suggests, you have to climb over roots all the time, which makes the Wandering Spirit even more exciting and keeps you going. When I walked this trail, I wished the trail would never stop. But after a good 50 minutes, you are finally at the destination: the top of the Stauf. It is a rather low peak, but that does not mean that you have no view. On the contrary, from the top you have a fantastic view of the Rhine Valley and Lake Constance.
How to get to the root path: From the cart track mountain station you have to walk first direction Staufenspitze. At the second intersection, the root path is already on the trail sign turn off. After a few minutes, the turnoff comes, where the white-blue-white root path begins.

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Karren Panorama Restaurant & views of Dornbirn and Lake Constance

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The panorama restaurant now offers 150 seats. There are 200 more seats on the terrace. The restaurant is something special, spectacular behind large panes of glass with an extremely great view of Dornbirn and Lake Constance.

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144 m

Bench With a View of Dornbirn, the Rhine Valley, and Lake Constance

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Just sit down and enjoy the view. Nothing more is needed here.

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4.97 km

View of the Snow-Capped Mountains

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5.33 km

Staufen Alp

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Warm and friendly warm people, with calm and time, with happiness in the heart and a smile on the face. Great cake, elderberry juice and much more. Look inside!

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5.49 km

View of Dornbirn

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7.45 km

Karren Cable Car Upper Station

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7.48 km

End point

Restaurant

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

5.19 km

1.43 km

837 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

5.89 km

795 m

731 m

< 100 m

Elevation

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Highest point (1,150 m)

Lowest point (910 m)

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Thursday 25 June

29°C

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Comments

October 31, 2023,Staufenrundwanderung 👍🥾🍁

Beautiful autumn hike 🍁🥾 on the cart 👍.
After I was on the Staufenspitze yesterday, today I took the train 🚡 up to the cart 👍 with a nice companion.
In rather moderate autumn weather 🍁 we started at the mountain station for the Staufenrunde 🥾.
A quick stop at the “Berggasthof Schuttannen” 🍺🤣👍, before heading back to the mountain …

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August 3, 2024,240803- Österreich: Dornbirn - Bergstation Karren- Staufenrunde

Photos will not be edited today - I wanted to give my bones some peace, but the mountain called

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August 6, 2024,1️⃣ X um 🔄 den ,,Staufen"

(Cable car🚠) with the V-Card to the Karren mountain station
🅿️Fees apply/ we went by bike 🚴‍♀️🛺 Thu 😁
Opening times: Mon-Sat 9:00-23:00 Sun 9:00-21:00
IMPORTANT ‼️ All dogs must wear a muzzle on the cable car

start: Karren mountain station over the Kühberg to the fork in the road 🪧
we do the circular route 🔄 to the right …

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October 7, 2023,2023.10.07 Um den Staufen

A tour around the Staufen near Dornbirn. - the so-called “Staufenrunde”, with a stop in Schuttannen.
We went up and down with the cart cable car for €15 per person.

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July 27, 2024,Plan B : Staufenrunde ☀️☀️☀️🌡️

The Staufenrunde was not planned. The plan was to go to the Schöner Mann Alpe and Emser Hütte. But whole caravans were moving in that direction. After a few meters it was clear to me: so many people, that's not for me 😵‍💫
The beautiful man isn't going to run away 🤭

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November 21, 2021,Staufenrunde ab Schuttannen 🐶🚶🏻‍♀️🚶‍♂️🚶🏻‍♀️

Also today again in the sun 🌞
Of course, many still had this idea.
Normally I wouldn't go up there on Sunday, but time was a bit short today.
I have seldom seen the Schuttannen parking lot so full.
Fortunately most of them only wanted to go up in the direction of Staufen, but we had just planned the circumnavigation. …

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October 9, 2025,🇦🇹 Staufenrunde

A short morning hike with Jacqueline in the fog with the motto "Use your V-Card" 😊🥾.
The Staufen Loop hike started at the Karren cable car mountain station.
After a short downhill stretch, the path soon climbed somewhat steeply to the "Alpengasthof Kühberg" (sadly closed forever). From there, it's a steady climb to Schuttannen.
The highest point is reached at …

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April 14, 2022,Karrenseilbahnfahrt und Staufenrunde

Since I drove my rear tire flat yesterday, I'm on the road today on Schuster rappen. With some technical help in the form of a gondola 🚡
Beautiful round around the Staufen. The path was actually closed due to avalanche danger. I thought I'd go through anyway, after all the avalanche season is over. In two places, however, the path …

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Karren Viewing Platform – Karren Cable Car Upper Station loop from Bezirk Dornbirn

View of the Rhine Valley and Lake Constance from Karren

Karren Viewing Platform

Karren Panorama Restaurant & views of Dornbirn and Lake Constance

Bench With a View of Dornbirn, the Rhine Valley, and Lake Constance

View of the Snow-Capped Mountains

Staufen Alp

View of Dornbirn

Karren Cable Car Upper Station

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