Ehrwald - Ehrwalder Alm

Access to starting point:
Through the Karawanks Tunnel, we drive to Austria, and then we continue driving towards Spittal and further towards Lienz (a little after Spittal, the highway ends). Further, we drive on a relatively nice and wide road through the Drau valley, which brings us to Italy. The road further leads past Dobbiaco / Toblach and Brunico / Bruneck. We continue further on the main road and then join the highway towards Austria (direction Brenner, Innsbruck). In Innsbruck we continue on the highway, which runs towards the west along the river Inn (at the highway junction direction Innsbruck-West). We leave the highway at the exit for the Fernpaß pass. We continue driving over the mentioned pass and when the road starts descending we continue right towards the town Ehrwald (at the exit there are also signs for Zugspitze). When we drive through the town Ehrwald we turn right towards the cableway Ehrwalder Almbahn. Further, the road starts ascending, and we all the time follow the signs for the mentioned cableway. We park on one of the parking lots at the bottom station of the cableway.

Path description:
At the bottom station of the cableway we first continue right on the road, then after a few tens of meters we continue left on a macadam road following the signs »Ehrwalder Alm«.
From the junction a relatively gently sloping road runs along the forest and soon brings us to another junction. At the junction we continue straight on the road, while to the right branches off a more demanding path (Immensteig) towards the lake Seebensee.
The road further runs along the ski slope at the edge of the forest and leads us past the bottom station of the chairlift and a smaller cottage by the path. At the cottage where a view opens up towards the summit Westliche Plattspitze, we continue slightly left and start to ascend a little steeper. The road then brings us into the forest and continues to ascend quite steeply. Higher, we come to the left side of the circular cabin cableway and continue ascending through the forest. When we come out of the forest again onto the ski slope, our path turns right and then runs again along the right side of the cableway. The road further always runs near the cableway along the ski slope. Such a path from which increasingly beautiful views also open up brings us soon to the hut on the alpine pasture Ehrwalder Alm where there is also the upper station of the circular cabin cableway. The alpine pasture can otherwise also be reached by cableway in the summer months.

Trip can be extended to: Hochfeldern Alm ( 50 min) , Knorrhütte (3 h) , Sonnalpin (4 h 30 min) , Zugspitze (6 h)