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Summer in the Gastein Valley
This means summer holiday in the middle of nature in front of the unique panorama of the Gastein mountains. Our area offers you everything for a relaxing & eventful holiday. Just see for yourself the beauty and the great diversity of our countryside.
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Pasture-hiking
Dive into the fascinating world of the Gastein mountains! 350 km of fine hiking trails wait to be discovered by you. Visit one of the 55 cosy and inviting alpine pasture huts in the Gastein valley, where you will be served delicious meals and local home-made specialities. Enjoy the tasteful snacks and the marvellous nature. Blooming mountain meadows, impressive glaciers and crystal-clear mountain lakes will enchant you.
Would you like to save your energy for other activities? The easy way up is to use the comfortable Gastein lifts operating in summer carrying you to the top. The mountain world will offer you a unique and magnificent spectacle of nature: Ibexes, marmots, vultures & protected kinds of animals will wait for you in the National Park High Tauern.
Cycling & mountain-biking
Gastein is the perfect place for cyclers and mountain-bikers. Here you will find everything what you need for your biking holiday: an impressive variety of cycle routes meeting all the expectations. Bike hire in Bad Gastein, Bad Hofgastein and in Dorfgastein as well as sport shops with excellent advisory service.
The Gastein cycle route is a family-friendly circuit, a unique experience & great fun for young & old, leading you through the spectacular and delightful nature of the Gastein valley.
Also the sport fans among the tourists will fully have their money’s worth: for mountain-bikers & uphill cyclers there is a real network of varied forest roads and cycle routes providing ideal possibilities for the training. Once reached the summit one of the countless alpine pasture huts expect you as perfect destination for your well-earned stop.
Gastein valley cycle route
Circuit on attractive by-roads.
Length 30 or 60 km; Altitude difference: 370 m; start: Böckstein (1.100 m). The route leads through the Gastein valley to Klammstein (730 m). All touring-bikers will find there a connection to the cycle route „Hohe Tauern“ (High Tauern) in the valley of the Salzach.
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Mountainbike routes in Bad Gastein
Bad Hofgastein
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Mountainbike routes in Dorfgastein
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National Park High Tauern (Hohe Tauern)
Right in the heart of the Austrian Alps Europe’s second biggest national park extends over 1.800 sqkm offering untouched nature as habitat to innumerable kinds of animals and plants in danger of becoming extinct.
Live nature of the Alps from its most beautiful side! Austria’s highest mountains and largest glaciers form an imposing scenery which developed in the course of thousands of years.
Austria’s highest mountain, the Großglockner, at an altitude of 3.798 meters. At its foot is siuated the „Pasterze“ Austria’s largest glacier tongue. The most fantastic mountain world can comfortably be reached via the Großglockner High Alpine road.
Beside the marvellous nature the National Park High Tauern makes you an exciting and eventful offer: choose from guided tours and programmes, trekking, visitors‘ centres or educational paths in order to spend an unforgettable holiday in the National Park High Tauern.
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» Summer programme in the National Park High Tauern
Golf
The golf club Gastein belongs to the oldest and most traditional golf clubs in Austria There are high quality golf facilities with the 18-hole golf course offering excitement and challenge for all handicaps. The golf course harmoniously fits into the surrounding taking advantage of the natural conditions nestling among romantic woods along a brook always facing the picturesque scenery of the Gastein mountains. The successful change of hilly courses and plaines, sloping sites and fairways make this golf course ever so interesting.
With the Golf Alpin Chip-Card you will get - at a good price – the possibility to choose from 38 golf Alpen partner clubs your favourite golf course in Salzburg, Carinthia, Tyrol and Vorarlberg.
Tennis
In the Gastein valley 36 tennis courts guarantee a boundless tennis pleasure. Improve your backhand, polish up your service or just combine game & fun in a mixed double. Here with us your hearts will be made beat faster. The enchanting panorama of the Gastein mountain world and the fresh air help to make the games on clay courts or on artificial grass courts an absolute pleasure.
Horse-riding trips
Delightful riding-trips will bring you from lush valleys up in high-alpine areas on reliable Icelandic horses with firm character. Do you appreciate the romantic wild-west atmosphere around a camp fire after a half-day ride? Or do you search the challenge of a 2 ½ day ride over the mountains down to the neighbouring Rauris valley? Here with us in Gastein this is the perfect place for you!
Farmers‘ autumn
Genuine, unspoilt customs and traditions cultured over hundreds of years will give you a picture with vivid colours of life in the Gastein valley. Farmers‘ autumn starts at the end of August. With happy celebrations the Gastein valley will present its 3 villages in festive, ornated clothes. To this also belongs the „Tracht“ (regional costume), the distinctive garment. During the farmers‘ autumn period – which lasts until the end of October – you will thus be able to collect new impressions.