Leiten Loop Trail

Winter hiking trails · Ramsau am Dachstein

Tour characteristics
Stamina
Experience
Landscape
Tour-Infos
Distance: 6.07 km
Duration: 2 h
Ascent: 124 m
Descent: 202 m
Best time of year
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The tour
Ramsau’s sun plateau offers ideal surroundings for winter walks at the foot of the Dachstein - separated into winter walking trails and paths. From the beginning of the winter season, the paths/tracks will be groomed and open to walkers as well as horse-drawn sleighs.
Turn-by-turn directions

The Leiten Loop Trail (green markings) leads from the "Obere Leiten" to the "Untere Leiten" and also allows you to access the Panorama Loop Trail or the Kulmberg Loop Trail. Positioned on the southern side of Ramsau, this trail leads you through open fields and a charming forest, offering you a beautiful view across the "Niedere Tauern". Starting from Pension Alpenbad, you can choose between the trail to the "Obere Leiten" and the trail to the "Untere Leiten". The trail to the "Untere Leiten" also offers you another variation to the Gasthaus Sonnenhügel.

Both of these variants start from Alpenbad and follow through to the bus stop "Almfrieden". 

  • 1st variant: follow the path straight ahead. You will then pass the Hotel Neuwirt and Hotel Martin. After a while, the loop trail will follow around a bend and, finally lead you back to your starting point.
  • 2nd variant: follow the trail to your right. You will pass the farm called "Bacherhof". Shortly after, you will reach a fork. Straight ahead, you will follow the same trail as above, just from the other direction. If you turn right at the fork, you will reach the "Untere Leiten", cross the street and walk over to the farms called "Deutlhauser" and "Gehrer". The trail ends below Gasthof Sonnenhügel.
Getting there

From the west: 

Tauern Autobahn (A 10) to Knoten Ennstal - turnoff direction Graz/Schladming - stay on the Ennstal-Bundesstraße (B320) for approx. 20 km until Schladming - take the turnoff for Ramsau. 

 

From the north: 

Pyhrn Autobahn (A 9)  direction Liezen - take the Ennstal-Bundesstraße (B320)  to Schladming - turnoff Ramsau. 

Bus schedule of the Ramsauer Verkehrsbetriebe: www.rvb.at

You can find the RVB public bus schedule here.

Parking
Alpenbad (Ramsau Kulm) or at the Tourist Information Centre Ramsau am Dachstein.
Start
Gasthaus Alpenbad or Ramsau Congress in Ramsau Ort
Destination
Gasthaus Alpenbad or Ramsau Congress in Ramsau Ort
Equipment
Winter Walking Attire

Weather forecast

Date
in the morning
4°C
at noon
17°C
in the evening
13°C
Dry and partly sunny throughout the day, with cloudy periods from time to time.
in the morning
5°C
at noon
20°C
in the evening
15°C
Early clouds will clear to leave the region with a dry and sunny day.
in the morning
7°C
at noon
21°C
in the evening
16°C
Some clouds in the morning, lateron much sunshine and hardly any clouds

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