Road bike tours in Upper Austria - Tour 1: With the road bike to the Salzkammergut
Tour characteristics
To the start to Attnang-Puchheim by train: by ÖBB (12 or 30 minutes: 12.40 or 9.40 euros per person and bike) or Westbahn (12 minutes: 9.20 if you book your bike online at least two hours before departure per person and bike). After 14 flat kilometres you reach Lake Attersee. This is followed by a climb to Mondsee via Oberaschau up to 722 metres above sea level, a scenic descent and a fine cycle path along the northern shore. Back at the Attersee, the toughest climb of the day, up to 13 per cent steep, awaits on the eastern shore, up into the Höllengebirge and to the Krahbergtaferl saddle (829 m). Back to the start through rural Alpine foothills.
The route in detail
Either use the following route description with details of all forks and turn-offs or download the GPX track of the tour at the bottom of the page.
- 0.0 Start Attnang-Puchheim, railway station | west, first traffic lights left: Gmunden, at km 4.1 (traffic lights) straight ahead to Schörfling
- 13.5 right Schörfling, junction | Seewalchen, after 200 m left: Unterach
- 25.5 right Nußdorf, junction | Limberg, at the "Limberg" junction (28.5 km) straight ahead, then: Mondsee
- 35.0 left junction after exit (not signposted) | at junction (km 39.2) left: Unterach, after 600 m turn right: cycle path 2 towards Attersee
- 49.0 km turn right after crossing under the bridge | immediately left: Weißenbach, there (55.1 km) straight ahead towards Schörfling
- 58.6 right Steinbach, junction | Altmünster
- 73.7 left Neukirchen | Pinsdorf
- 83.9 left Pinsdorf | cycle path Attersee, at 87.2 km left: Rutzenmoos, turn right before Gasthaus zur Pepi Tant, immediately left, left at the junction and past the town exit sign on the right
- 92.2 turn right into Hauptstraße | after 300 m (traffic lights) turn right: Attnang-Puchheim
- 96.5 Destination Attnang-Puchheim, railway station
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GPS data: Upper Austria, Wels
