Overview
Summer
The start of this theme trail is by the "Babylon by the car park". This is a gentle stroll throught the Echerntal Valley, and lasts about 1.5 hours.
The Facts
| Start: | Wiesberghaus Car Park |
| End: | Wiesberg Car Park |
| Length: | Approx. 4 km. 112 metres of altitude |
| Difficulty: | Easy. Circular Trail also suitable for all terrain buggies. |
| Duration: | 1.5 hours. From the bus terminal to the Wiesberg Car Park allow 30 minutes |
| Map material: | Freizeitkarte Inneres Salzkammergut (gratis) |
| Mark /Way No.: | Echerntal Theme Trail |
| Character: | The amazing "Glacier Garden" natural monument is located in Hallstatt's Echerntal Valley. From the deepest part of the glacier garden a path continues to the "Franz-Josef-Reitweg" (riding trail) and onwards to the "artists' trail" in the base of the valley. |
| Equipment: | No special equipment required |
| Special experience: | Waldbachstrub Waterfall. "Glacier Garden" |
| Resting possibilities: | Waldbachstrub viewing platform (benches) No inns |
Admire your unspoilt natural surroundings, look out for rushing mountain streams and waterfalls along the way. You will also be able to marvel at the natural beauty of the "Gletscheröfen" - natural pools created by glaciers. You can also discover how people first came to the Echerntal Valley. Emperors and kings, hikers and mountain climbers, Romantic artists, poets. literary figures, cave explorers, hunters and gamekeepers all made this a favourite spot.
Austria's best known Romantics and artists all set up their easels in the Echerntal Valley. In the 1900s, this valley was known as "The Place for Romantics"
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Ferienregion Dachstein-Salzkammergut
Tourismusverband Inneres Salzkammergut
Geschäftsstelle Hallstatt
Seestraße 169, 4830 Hallstatt
Tel.: +43 (0)6134 8208
e-Mail: hallstatt@dachstein-salzkammergut.at
Web: http://www.oberoesterreich.at/hallstatt
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