Geological circular route

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Tour-Details

Starting place: 4824 Gosau

Destination: 4824 Gosau

duration: 0h 53m

length: 3,0 km

Altitude difference (uphill): 83m

Altitude difference (downhill): 83m

Lowest point: 761m

Highest point: 845m

difficulty: easy

condition: easy

panoramic view: Individual Views

Paths covering:

Gravel

This easy tour is also walkable when the weather is bad.

Starting at the Gosauschmied, this circular walk is also possible in bad weather in proper walking boots. Follow the road up to the lower Gosau lake for about 1km and then bear left along a gravel track. The route continues over several small bridges.

The streams you cross are known as the "Brunnbaeche". The streams are fed mostly by water from the Dachstein plateau and even the Dachstein glacier itself, which is why these streams do not dry out even in long, hot, dry spells. The water from each little "spring" has its own individual taste. Try it out!

As you continue through the woods you get a glimpse of the Stausee lake every now and then. After a relatively steep stretch you should not re-join the road, but continue along the "Panoramawegerl"("Panoramic Route") running parallel with the edge of the woods. This brings you to the "Gasthof Gamsjaeger" (100m from the starting point).

Experience a 360° panorama tour through Gosau valley...

Mountain rescue: 140

Tour and route information

Starting point: hotel Gosauschmied

Destination: hotel Gosauschmied

further information:

Flatly
Board possible

Details - hiking

themed path

Opening hours

This way is, depending on the weather, accessible from May till October.

Arrival

Accessibility / arrival

by car
from Salzburg:
motorway exit Golling – Abtenau, Russbach, Gosau
Gosau: after the “Pass Gschütt” junction turn right onto the “Gosausee Landstraße”, after approx. 5 km you will reach the car park at "Gosauschmied". There you have to cross over the small river by feet. After a few meters the loop road starts.

from Linz:
motorway exit Regau – Gmunden, Bad Ischl, Bad Goisern, Gosau
Gosau: at the “Pass Gschütt” junction drive straight ahead onto the “Gosausee Landstraße”, then after approx. 5 km you will reach the car park at "Gosauschmied". There you have to cross over the small river by feet. After a few meters the loop road starts.

by bus (irregular on Sundays):
from Bad Ischl: bus in direction to “Gosausee” (Lake Gosau) You have to get off at the bus stop "Gosauschmied". There you have to cross over the small river by feet. After a few meters the loop road starts.

from Rußbach: bus in direction to Gosau, at the terminus change to bus in direction to “Gosausee” (Lake Gosau) You have to geht off at the busstop "Gosauschmied". There you have to cross over the small river by feet. After a few meters the loop road starts.

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