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The thrill of climbing a peak, the peace and power of the forest, the good feeling of exhaustion in the evening: Hardly any outdoor activity is as versatile and brings you closer to nature in such different ways as good hiking. For everyone who wants to discover Lower Austria on foot, we have collected four great hiking routes that surprise with viewpoints and places to stop for refreshments. And no matter whether you are a mountain lover or a fan of gentle hikes, a forest swimmer or a view enthusiast: our largest federal state takes it pretty seriously when it comes to varied discovery tours and has the right route for all preferences and levels. Let’s go!
Weinviertel hike around Falkenstein
We start north, just before the Austrian-Czech border and accompany you through beautiful vineyards past cellar alleys. Welcome to Falkenstein, the picturesque wine town in the largest wine-growing region in Austria. Here you always walk lightly through the wine region and have the next beautiful view of endless vineyard landscapes behind every new fork. We find the 3 Sisters Trail particularly exciting here. The special thing about this hiking route: It connects three cellar alleys that couldn’t be more completely different. From the sparkling wine capital of Lower Austria and sparkling wine stronghold Poysdorf, you continue to the romantic Falkenstein and finally reach the historically pretty Herrnbaumgarten. Three wine towns like three sisters, who lay the picturesque vineyard slopes and idyllic cellar alleys at your feet in their own unique ways. Tip for on the go: Be sure to stop off at wine taverns and self-service cellars. Or you can create carefree outdoor moments with a picnic yourself.
Information about the 3 Sisters Trail:
- Start: Vino Versum/Weinmarkt in Poysdorf
- Route: 23.71 km (total, of course you can also just visit one path or one cellar alley)
- Length of time: 7 h
- Difficulty level: medium
- Highlight: View of the Falkenstein castle ruins
- Help with your route planning
>> Read more: Even more gentle discovery tours through the Weinviertel
Explore the Vienna Alps
A bit more adventurous and higher, it’s 300 kilometers, 11,000 meters in altitude and countless views down below. In short: 19 stages from the Vienna Alps. So if you have a lot of fat in your calves and don’t shy away from long hikes, this piece of extremely hilly earth will make you happy in no time. Numerous hiking trails lead from the hills of the Buckligen Welt over the green swaths of the Wechselkamm, into the wooded cultural world of Semmering and up to the highest peaks in the country, Rax and Schneeberg. A particularly beautiful path that we recommend to you: the hiking tour from Prein, Raxalpenhof to the Habsburg House. On the 11th stage of the route along the Vienna Alps, the landscape becomes a little more alpine, so bring your fitness and concentration, please! Where initially fruit tree meadows and farms cross your feet, a short time later you continue through mountain forests up to the rocky high plateau of the Rax. The reward: the panoramic view from the refuge.
Information about the hiking tour from the Raxalpenhof to the Habsburg House:
- Start: Prein, Wanderhotel Raxalpenhof
- Route: 11,89 km
- Length of time: 5 h
- Difficulty level: difficult
- Highlight: Wide view from the Habsburg House to the Schneealpe and the Ötscher
- Information about the exact route
>> Read more: Other hiking trails through the Vienna Alps
Hikes and torrents around the Ötscher
The region around the Ötscher in the southwest is wild and indecisive – in the most positive sense. The hiking trails in this part of Lower Austria are characterized by untamed nature, impressive gorges, thundering waterfalls, rough mountain ridges and green alpine meadows that make you want more every step of the way. And you get this extra more often on a very special route. Because if you want to get a taste of three different mountain peaks, the alpine tour from Hochkar via Dürrenstein to Ötscher is just the thing for you. Here you go along lonely single trails, mostly above the tree line, to breathtaking mountain panoramas. A particularly beautiful tour through the Ötschergräben – the Grand Canyon of Austria – takes you from the Ötscher-Tormäuer nature park entrance to Mitterbach. Shaped by the forces of the Ötscherbach, you hike along rugged rocks and thundering waterfalls through a unique gorge system. After you pass the romantic Erlaufstausee, your destination is Mitterbach train station.
Information about the hiking tour from the nature park entrance to Mitterbach
- Start: Ötscher-Basis Nature Park Center in Wienerbruck/Ötscher-Tormäuer Nature Park Entrance
- Route: 11,18 km
- Length of time: 3:45 h
- Difficulty level: medium
- Highlight: the gorge world of the Ötschergräben
- For exact directions
>> Read more: Great discovery tours around the Ötscher
Hiking on the Wachau World Heritage Trail in Lower Austria
On the Wachau World Heritage Trail, your hiking boots become time machines: past historic palaces, fortresses and monasteries, the area takes you deep into the past before the beauty of nature, which shines differently in every season, brings you back to the present. No matter when you come to the Wachau, whether during the famous apricot blossom season or in the golden autumn in the vineyards: The flora and fauna of the Wachau has some special features to offer: green lizards, rare bird species such as the orange-colored hoopoe and delicate grass plants such as the stone feather . A tour on which you will experience a lot is the one from Aggsbach Dorf to Hofarnsdorf. On the way you will come across the Aggstein ruins, the baroque pilgrimage monastery Maria Langegg and the unknown Dunkelsteinerwald with the Buchental. The best place to make promising stops is at Hoher Stein and Glauberkreuz in the Arnsdorfer Rieden.
Information about the Wachau World Heritage Trail from Aggsbach Dorf to Hofarnsdorf:
- Start: Aggsbach Dorf, Hammerschmiede
- Route: 16,17 km
- Length of time: 5:15 h
- Difficulty level: medium
- Highlight: Hoher Stein viewing point with a panoramic view of the Wachau
- Detailed information about the hiking route
>> Read more: All highlights from the Wachau World Heritage Trail
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