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Trans National Park Stage 01 Into the Kalkalpen National Park

Accessible by public transport

Characteristics

Skill

Fitness

The tour in numbers

Level of difficulty challenging

Route 54,4 km

Time 7:30 h

Uphill 1527 hm

Downhill 1321 hm

Highest point 1158 m

Leonstein/Molln – Annasberg/Trailing – Breitenau – Bodinggraben – Steyrsteg – Haslersgatter Salzatal – Windischgarsten

This stage leads through Molln over the idyllic Bodinggraben to Windischgarsten.

Here you will find the only single trail piece of the whole tour. A detour to the panorama tower Wurbauerkogel is worthwhile.

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Entry points:

Losenstein/Ennstal: Losenstein/Familengasthof Blasl

Molln/Steyrtal: Public parking at the Ramllift, opposite the ÖBF Forstbetrieb Steyrtal

Spital am Pyhrn: indoor swimming pool

St. Gallen/Gesäuse: Public parking lot at the statue for ski world champion Karin BuderAdmont

Gesäuse: Hotel Spirodom

Start in the village of Molln after 2KM turn right uphill towards Steinköpfl - round Anansberg / Trailing

- farm on the right, continue along field paths / goods road via Reitern into Breitenau: Tip: Visit Breitenau church

- flat route into the valley past lush meadows along the Krumme Steyrling on asphalt / gravel into the Bodinggraben National Park Kalkalpen core zone

- past the Jagahäusl (refreshment stop) after 500m turn left over the Steyrsteg (push trail - single trail / old Karenweg connection Steyrtal/Garstnertal) up to the Rumpelmayrreith Alm to the Haslersgatter (origin of the Krumme Steyrling).

At the beginning on a gravel road downhill towards the Wurbauerkogel (refreshment stop, panorama tower), turn right and continue through the idyllic Salzatal past the National Park Lodge Villa Sonnwend to Windischgarsten.

Highlights of the stage: Lamberg's forester's lodge in the Bodinggraben,

Steyrsteg trail, bivouac site with fireplace,

Wurbauerkogel panorama tower

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