Read exciting stories and experience real insider tips What actually is there to do along the Grossglockner High Alpine Road? What exhibits are open? Where are the nicest hiking paths to our employees’ secret favourite spots? When and where do the marmots whistle loudest? Find out about all this – and so much more – in our Blog. Get reading! Be tempted and get some inspiration for your next excursion to the Grossglockner High Alpine Road.

The Grossglockner High Alpine Road would like to make travellers an offer to use the Grossglockner High Alpine Road as an exciting alternative route with a special price during the A10 tunnel renovation (one lane only).
This route applies …

... starts again from 10th September 2024
… only the day you are due to arrive and depart
… only when your accommodation booking is confirmed in neighbouring regions in Carinthia, East Tyrol and Salzburg
… not in July and August (details below), only during periods when the A10 tunnel is being upgraded and is down to single lane traffic.

Autumn is the high season for pleasure hikers and nature lovers. Soft, golden light bathes the colourful leaves of the trees in the most beautiful colours and with the excellent visibility, the peaks seem close enough to touch. The air is clear and fragrant and you can almost smell the approaching winter on cool mornings. Unforgettable autumn hikes for only € 60,- are possible with the autumn offer including an 8-day ticket (licence plate bound) and the Rother hiking guide! The offer is valid from 9th September 2024 until the end of the season. (Only available at the cash desk)

Here are some hikes along the Grossglockner High Alpine Road.

The Grossglockner High Alpine Road offers a relaxing drive where you can enjoy the breathtaking scenery to the maximum. Please adhere strictly to the speed limit of 70 km/h and help to ensure greater safety and the protection of animals and nature. (article in German only)

Visitors to the visitor centre on the Kaiser-Franz-Josefs-Höhe can now look forward to three very special new features: the exhibitions "Sepp Forcher - Between Words and Peaks" and "Chronology of Memories - Faces of the Großglockner" as well as the new Großglockner Cinema with a focus on Sepp Forcher and the Großglockner were officially opened today in the presence of numerous guests of honour.

Austria's highest mountain now has its own podcast! Every three weeks there is a new episode with stories about the Grossglockner High Alpine Road, about people and animals and, of course, about its majesty, the Grossglockner.

At 48 kilometres in length, the Grossglockner High Alpine Road has much more to offer than just driving fun.

Karl Prantl, internationally renowned sculptor from Austria, would have celebrated his 100th birthday this year. To mark this special anniversary, Großglockner Hochalpenstraßen AG (GROHAG), in collaboration with Ferdinand Rudolf Porsche and Galerie Frey, is exhibiting two of his monumental stone sculptures made of serpentine Tauern green against the equally imposing backdrop of rock and mountain along the Grossglockner High Alpine Road in the Hohe Tauern National Park. A festival of high culture meets a festival of nature in the high mountains!

It's in the nature of things that dog owners and their furry friends spend a lot of time travelling in the great outdoors. But the Grossglockner High Alpine Road is an ideal excursion destination for anyone who wants to get a taste of the mountain air with their four-legged friend. Because of course, man's best friends are also welcome guests up here!