Buchsteinrunde Etappe 3 (Johnsbach - St. Gallen)

Accessible by public transport

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The tour in numbers

Level of difficulty medium

Route 41,0 km

Time 6:30 h

Uphill 996 hm

Downhill 1341 hm

Highest point 1096 m

The third stage takes us down to the roaring Enns river and on over the Buchauer Sattel, around the Zinödlberg and back to our starting point in St. Gallen.

On the last day of your MTB tour through the Gesäuse, you will cycle (hopefully after you have also completed the culinary tour of all the idyllic Johnsbach alpine pastures – detour B) the 7 km uphill back down to the roaring Enns. At the entrance to the Gesäuse, you will cross the wildly murmuring Enns on the Lauferbauer Bridge before heading over the Kletzenberg in Weng and then up to the Buchauer Sattel. Here, detour C to the Grabneralm beckons before the forest road leads downhill to Grießbach, where you will rejoin the main road. After a bridge, take a sharp right turn and follow the forest road uphill to the Schwarzsattel, which offers a magnificent view. From there, it's a leisurely ride via the Stockingeralm to St. Gallen. The signs lead you directly to the town centre, which was also the starting point of the Buchsteinrunde.

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Gasthof Kölblwirt, 8912 Johnsbach

If you are starting the stage: Take the Gesäusebundesstraße road into the Johnsbach Valley to one of the accommodations in Johnsbach.

The third stage takes us downhill to the roaring Enns river. We now follow the main road for 5 kilometres and cross the Enns at the Gesäuse entrance via the Lauferbauer bridge. Via the Kletzenberg in Weng, we climb 250 metres to the Buchauer Sattel, where we rejoin the main road before turning right onto the forest road. This is well signposted and mostly downhill until we reach the main road in Grießbach.

Here, we ride just a few metres over a bridge and immediately turn sharply right in a 180-degree turn. We now follow the forest road uphill to the Schwarzsattel, which offers a wonderful view. From here, it is all downhill via the Stockingeralm to St. Gallen. The signs lead us directly to the town centre, which was also the starting point of our tour.

At the Buchauer Sattel, you should definitely make a detour to the Grabneralm!

Visit the excursion destinations along the route:

Water adventure park and Gallenstein castle ruins in St. Gallen
SILVANUM forestry museum in Großreifling
Wasserlochklamm gorge in Palfau
Nothklamm gorge, GeoZentrum and Kraushöhle cave in Gams
Charcoal burner centre in Hieflau
National Park Pavilion in Gstatterboden
NP Weidendom and ecological footprint at the junction to Johnsbach
Historic mountaineers' cemetery and Odelsteinhöhle cave in Johnsbach
Admont Benedictine Abbey with the largest monastery library in the world

Train to Liezen, then take Postbus line 910 to St. Gallen or

Train to Kleinreifling or Weißenbach/St. Gallen, then take Postbus line 910 to St. Gallen

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Kölblwirt inn or Klamm car park (subject to a charge)

Tourismusverband Gesäuse
Hauptstraße 35, 8911 Admont, Österreich
t: +43 3613 21 160 10
Email: info@gesaeuse.at
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