Road biking tours in the Salzkammergut

Various racing bicycle tours in the Salzkammergut region

Reel off uncountable kilometres, feel the wind in your helmet and test your physical boundaries: many sportspeople just cannot resist the temptation of the narrow wheels.

Go to new places with your road bike: in the road biking region Salzkammergut you go through wonderful lake and mountain landscapes of a unique variety during your road biking tours.

Bad Goisern – road biking tour to the Attersee variant 1

This beautiful tour takes you to the most beautiful Salzkammergut lakes.

Starting from Landhotel Agathawirt in Bad Goisern you take the main road B145 to the emperor’s town Bad Ischl. At the junction Bad Ischl Nord you take the road to Ebensee / Gmunden. Before reaching Ebensee you turn left into the Weißenbachtal valley (B153) and reach Weißenbach am Attersee. Via Strobl and Bad Ischl you finally go back to Bad Goisern.

Bad Goisern – Attersee with the racing bike variant II - long

The first part of this variant is the same as variant I until Weißenbach am Attersee. Then you cycle anti-clockwise around the Attersee and pass the villages Steinbach, Weyregg, Schörfling and Seewalchen, Attersee, Nussdorf and finally Unterach. Here you take the road to Mondsee. Just as in variant I you then go via Wiesenau and Schafling to St. Gilgen, then on to Strobl and Bad Ischl until you reach Landhotel Agathawirt in Bad Goisern.

Bad Goisern – Strobl on the racing bike

A beautiful and easy racing bike tour from Bad Goisern to Lake Wolfgang and through the emperor’s town Bad Ischl. Along the main road B145 you go slightly downhill to Bad Ischl. On a parallel path to the main road you cross the emperor’s town before you bike on a short stretch of the main road B158 to Pfandl. There you turn right at the traffic lights to the “Alte Wolfgangseestraße” L546. Via Wirling and Radau the road goes to Strobl and from here along the B158 back to the starting point in Bad Goisern.

Two men ride down a road in the Salzkammergut on their racing bike
The most beautiful road bike tours in Bad Goisern

Obertraun – Bad Aussee road biking tour

This tour leads you through the picturesque Koppental valley.

From the hotel you take the east shore hiking and biking path to Obertraun. There you make a turn to the road leading into the Koppental valley before you conquer the steepest part, the Koppenpass with a challenging gradient of max. 23%. On you go to Bad Aussee and then on the main road B145 towards Bad Goisern. At the traffic junction Bad Goisern Süd you turn to the main road B153 towards Gosaumühle. Here you turn at the junction and go via Hallstatt and Obertraun back to Hotel Agathawirt.

Road bike holidays in Landhotel Agathawirt

Have we wetted your appetite to explore the unique natural landscape of the Dachstein-Salzkammergut with the road bike? Bikers will be very well cared for in Landhotel Agathawirt and will always receive valuable tips for their bike tours by the hosts themselves. Send us a no-obligation enquiry for your holidays in Landhotel Agathawirt in Bad Goisern!

Selected road bike routes around Bad Goisern

Theme walk "Path of Millions"

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Path number: 10
Starting place: 4580 Windischgarsten
Destination: 4581 Rosenau am Hengstpaß

duration: 4h 38m
length: 15,1 km
Altitude difference (uphill): 538m
Altitude difference (downhill): 254m

Lowest point: 602m
Highest point: 972m
difficulty: medium
condition: medium
panoramic view: Some Views

Paths covering:
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The historic route of Proviantweg joined the Garstnertal in the big time of the "Black Count" with the Styrian Eisenwurzen over the Hengstpaß. We walk from Windischgarsten first on Millionenweg and then on Proviantweg to the pastures at Hengstpaß.

Around 26 stations with the most beautiful viewing points in the Garstner Valley show, how the landscape of the Pyhrn-Eisenwurzen has geologically developed in 250 million years. You also walk along the historical provisions path, along which provisions and iron were transported over the Hengstpass for hundreds of years and discover the tracks of the old iron road. The journey into the past starts at the railway station in Windischgarsten and leads to the "Geological Nature Trail" in the Nature Park. After the "Geological Nature Trail" with its display of stone, which make up the ground and constitute the mountains around Windischgarsten, you can carry on walking on the gravel banks of the dam stream and discover the stony witnessess of geological history for yourself. Past the Pistlmühle Sawmill and the Gasthaus Schaffelmühle after a little walk along the Rosenauer road to the confluence of the Frait stream, which you then follow. Towards Windischgarsten you leave the Fraitgraben and enjoy a wonderful view of the Garstner Valley. Passed a moor and over gentle moraine hills you return to the starting-point.

Walking time: Path of Millions ca. 3-4 Std./with Proviantweg 6-7 Std
Starting point: Station Windischgarsten
Destination: Karlshütte on Hengstpaß

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Accessibility / arrival

by car:
West motorway A1 - exit Voralpenkreuz on the A9 (Pyhrnautobahn) direction Graz - exit Roßleithen / Windischgarsten

by train:
Hauptbahnhof Linz - Windischgarsten
Graz - Selzthal - Windischgarsten

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  • Autumn

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Theme walk "Path of Millions"
Pyhrn-Priel Tourismus GmbH
Hauptstraße 28
4580 Windischgarsten

Phone +43 7562 5266 - 99
Fax machine +43 7562 5266 - 10
E-Mailinfo@pyhrn-priel.net
Webwww.urlaubsregion-pyhrn-priel.at
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Tour-Details

Path number: 10
Starting place: 4580 Windischgarsten
Destination: 4581 Rosenau am Hengstpaß

duration: 4h 38m
length: 15,1 km
Altitude difference (uphill): 538m
Altitude difference (downhill): 254m

Lowest point: 602m
Highest point: 972m
difficulty: medium
condition: medium
panoramic view: Some Views

Paths covering:
Asphalt, Gravel, Hiking trail

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