Tour to the Gritstone Quarries

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Tour-Details

Starting place: 4824 Gosau

Destination: 4824 Gosau

duration: 3h 8m

length: 5,6 km

Altitude difference (uphill): 701m

Altitude difference (downhill): 110m

Lowest point: 749m

Highest point: 1.397m

difficulty: medium

condition: medium

panoramic view: Some Views

Paths covering:

Hiking trail

This beautiful hike leads you to the Gritstone Quarries. From there you can start the "tour through the Löckernmoos".

Follow the forest track which you join between Gamsjäger's guest house and the Gosauschmied inn. After approx. 30 min we bear off into the woodland. From here we follow a well-indicated Theme Trail which brings us to the Historic Gritstone Quarries (allow about 1 hour 30 minutes). From the quarries it is about 30 minutes further to the "Löckernmoos" mountain moorland from where you can walk on a wooden platform to the romantic Löckernsee mountain lake. Enjoy the wonderful panorama with the Gosaukamm mountain range in the background. Continue via the Grubalm to the "Wildfrauenloch". This is said to be a "lucky spot", and you can lean back and take a well earned rest on an unusual "seat" made from old fir trees.

Experience a 360° panorama tour through Gosau valley…

Mountain rescue: 140

Tour and route information

Starting point: middle Gosau valley

Destination: Schleifsteinbrüche

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Opening hours

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

Arrival

Accessibility / arrival

by car
from Salzburg:
Motorway exit Golling via B162 Abtenau and B166 to Gosau

from Linz:
Motorway exit Regau on Salzkammergut street B145 towards Gmunden and Bad Ischl to Bad Goisern, in Bad Goisern turn right onto B166, at the Gosaumühle junction turn right towards Gosau

from Vienna/Graz:
Motorway exit Liezen on the B320, in Trautenfels turn on Salzkammergut street B145 to Bad Aussee, turn on Koppen street through Obertraun and Hallstatt, at the Gosaumühle junction turn left towards Gosau

from Villach:
Tauern motorway to exit “Eben im Pongau”, via the B166 Pass Gschütt federal road to Gosau

by train
Attnang-Puchheim - Stainach-Irdning lines
Arrival by train in "Steeg / Gosau" then continue with bus 541/542 in the direction Gosausee

By bus
Bus 470 (Abtenau - Gosau) direction Gosau, stop Gosau Abzw. Pass Gschütt
Bus 541/542 (Bad Ischl - Gosausee) direction Gosausee, stops Haltestelle: Gosau Klaushof, Gosau Bärnausiedlung, Gosau Ressenbachweg, Gosau Vordertal B166, Gosau Ramsau B166, Gosau, Gemeindeamt, Abzw. Pass Gschütt, Gosau Wirtsweg, Gosau Leitenweg, Gosau Schüttmannweg, Mittertal b. Gosau Ort, Mittertal Hornspitzlift

Detailed information on the respective train and bus times can be found at https://www.oebb.at/en/ (train) and https://www.postbus.at/en(bus).