Why this ride
A 150 km round trip from Gosau - roughly 2 h 35 in the saddle. The stops in between: See, Litzlberg Süd and back through See. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur and Litzlberg Süd
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 150 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 2 h 35
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Scenic road chapters
Salkammergut Lakes Road
Slow enough to look. The surface follows the shoreline, so the corners arrive where the water decided, not where an engineer did. Water arrives beside the road and stays for 42 km. The line follows the shore because there is nowhere else for it to go.
Rider note
Check the pass is open before you commit to it.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 54 km
- Named road
- Salkammergut Lakes Road
- Pass
- Pass Gschutt
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur
Salt made all of this. Long before anyone thought of postcards, people were tunnelling into the mountain above Hallstatt for it, and finds from the prehistoric mine and its cemetery were so rich that archaeologists named a whole phase of the European Iron Age, the Hallstatt culture, after a village you can walk across in ten minutes. The Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut cultural landscape, inscribed in 1997, takes in the lake, the village, the salt mountain, the limestone massif of the Dachstein and the valleys around Gosau, Bad Goisern and Bad Aussee.
Read the complete Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur is where the day begins. Next is See.
2. See
At the southeastern tip of the Mondsee, where the lake narrows toward the Attersee and the cliffs of the Drachenwand and the Schafberg crowd in on both sides, lies a hamlet with the shortest name you will find on any map: See. Just offshore, in the shallow water where the lake drains, divers found the remains of a prehistoric pile-dwelling settlement, and the finds were so characteristic that archaeologists named a whole Neolithic culture after the lake: the Mondsee culture, known for its decorated pottery and early copper working. The site is part of the UNESCO listing of Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps, and as with most of them, there is nothing to see except the water, which is part of the point.
Read the complete See write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
See comes up about 54 km into the recorded legs. Next is Litzlberg Süd.
3. Litzlberg Süd
Attersee is the largest lake lying entirely within Austria, and the water is so clear and clean that boats seem to hang over their own shadows. It lies in the Salzkammergut, the lake district east of Salzburg, ringed by forested hills and with the limestone wall of the Hollengebirge at its southern end. Litzlberg sits on the western shore, a short way from Seewalchen, where the lake narrows and the shoreline is a mix of meadows, reed beds and villas with boathouses. It is a place that people have lived since the Stone Age, and the lake bed here holds the remains of prehistoric pile dwellings that are part of the UNESCO listing for such sites around the Alps.
Read the complete Litzlberg Süd write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 75 km into the recorded legs you reach Litzlberg Süd. Next is back through See.
4. back through See
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete See write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through See, late in the day. Next is Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur.
5. Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur to See
Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur → See is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
See to Litzlberg Süd
See → Litzlberg Süd is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Litzlberg Süd to back through See
Litzlberg Süd → back through See is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through See to Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur
back through See → Hallstatt-Dachstein / Salzkammergut Cultur is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
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