{"id":999,"date":"2026-06-07T18:52:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T16:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/item\/grossglockner-hochalpenstrasse\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T11:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T09:04:10","slug":"grossglockner-hochalpenstrasse","status":"publish","type":"citadela-item","link":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/item\/grossglockner-hochalpenstrasse\/","title":{"rendered":"Gro\u00dfglockner High Alpine Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size:1.15em;line-height:1.6;color:#3a352f;\">The Gro\u00dfglockner High Alpine Road is Austria's most famous panoramic road and runs right through the Hohe Tauern National Park. Over 36 hairpins it reaches viewpoints above 2,500 m, among them the Franz-Josefs-H\u00f6he with a view of the Gro\u00dfglockner (3,798 m) and the Pasterze glacier. Marmots and ibex can often be watched along the road.<\/p>\n<h2>Highlights<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>36 hairpins up to over 2,500 m<\/li>\n<li>Franz-Josefs-H\u00f6he with a view of the Gro\u00dfglockner and Pasterze<\/li>\n<li>Location in the Hohe Tauern National Park<\/li>\n<li>Wildlife watching along the road<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Good to know<\/h2>\n<table class=\"at-vergleich\" style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:14px;\">\n<tr style=\"background:#ffffff;\">\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;width:34%;font-weight:600;\">Elevation<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;\">Viewpoints above 2,500 m<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background:#fafaf8;\">\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;width:34%;font-weight:600;\">View<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;\">Franz-Josefs-H\u00f6he (2,369 m)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background:#ffffff;\">\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;width:34%;font-weight:600;\">Mountain<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;\">Gro\u00dfglockner (3,798 m), Pasterze glacier<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background:#fafaf8;\">\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;width:34%;font-weight:600;\">National park<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;\">Hohe Tauern<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<h2>Practical info<\/h2>\n<div style=\"background:#f3f1ec;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;border-radius:10px;padding:18px 20px;\">\n<p style=\"margin:6px 0;line-height:1.55;\"><strong style=\"color:#f25353;\">Getting there:<\/strong> By car\/motorcycle from Bruck (Salzburg) or Heiligenblut (Carinthia); open seasonally.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:6px 0;line-height:1.55;\"><strong style=\"color:#f25353;\">Best time:<\/strong> Roughly May to October\/early November, weather-dependent (please verify).<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:6px 0;line-height:1.55;\"><strong style=\"color:#f25353;\">Cost:<\/strong> Toll road payable (please verify).<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:6px 0;line-height:1.55;\"><strong style=\"color:#f25353;\">Safety:<\/strong> Winding high-mountain road; check opening times and weather.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:12px 0 4px;\"><strong style=\"color:#f25353;\">Tips:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top:0;\">\n<li>Start early, the long views are best in the morning<\/li>\n<li>Bring binoculars, marmots are often seen along the road<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Background &amp; History<\/h2>\n<p>The Grossglockner High Alpine Road ranks among the great structures of the early 20th century and connects, by a winding route, the Salzburg region with Carinthia, climbing in countless hairpins to over 2500 metres altitude. It was built between 1930 and 1935 in a time of great economic hardship, also as a job-creation project, and at its opening it was celebrated as a triumph of the automobile over the high mountains, depicted on posters that all but sent the car driving up into the heaven of the peaks.<\/p>\n<p>The road leads through all the altitude zones of the Alps, from blooming alpine meadows over the region of the mountain pines up into the barren world of rock and ice at the edge of the glaciers. At the Kaiser-Franz-Josefs-H\u00f6he the view opens onto the Pasterze and the summit of the Grossglockner, and at the high resting places marmots and, with a little luck, ibex and bearded vultures can be observed. The winding route quickly became a venue for motorsport and to this day attracts lovers of historic vehicles as well as cyclists who test themselves on the steep ramps. In winter the road remains closed and disappears under metres-high snow, so that it has to be cleared anew each spring. More than a mere traffic connection, the High Alpine Road is a staging of the mountain world, a panoramic route that made the experience of altitude accessible to everyone who sets out on the drive through the Hohe Tauern.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#221c1a;color:#fff;border-radius:10px;padding:18px 22px;margin-top:28px;\"><strong style=\"font-size:1.08em;\">Related<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:6px 0 12px;color:#d8d2cc;font-size:14px;\">To make your trip run smoothly , our guides and gear tips for this destination:<\/p>\n<div style=\"display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;gap:10px;\"><a href=\"\/en\/voegel-der-alpen\/\" style=\"display:inline-block;background:#f25353;color:#fff;padding:9px 16px;border-radius:6px;text-decoration:none;font-weight:600;font-size:14px;\">Bird species in the region \u2192<\/a><a href=\"\/en\/fernglaeser-tierbeobachtung\/\" style=\"display:inline-block;background:#f25353;color:#fff;padding:9px 16px;border-radius:6px;text-decoration:none;font-weight:600;font-size:14px;\">Binoculars &amp; spotting scopes \u2192<\/a><a href=\"\/en\/vogel-ausruestung\/\" style=\"display:inline-block;background:#f25353;color:#fff;padding:9px 16px;border-radius:6px;text-decoration:none;font-weight:600;font-size:14px;\">Birding gear \u2192<\/a><a href=\"\/en\/naturfotografie\/\" style=\"display:inline-block;background:#f25353;color:#fff;padding:9px 16px;border-radius:6px;text-decoration:none;font-weight:600;font-size:14px;\">Nature photography \u2192<\/a><a href=\"\/en\/wanderschuhe\/\" style=\"display:inline-block;background:#f25353;color:#fff;padding:9px 16px;border-radius:6px;text-decoration:none;font-weight:600;font-size:14px;\">Hiking boots \u2192<\/a><a href=\"\/en\/packliste-huettentour\/\" style=\"display:inline-block;background:#f25353;color:#fff;padding:9px 16px;border-radius:6px;text-decoration:none;font-weight:600;font-size:14px;\">Hut-tour packing list \u2192<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Die Gro\u00dfglockner-Hochalpenstra\u00dfe ist die ber\u00fchmteste Panoramastra\u00dfe \u00d6sterreichs und f\u00fchrt mitten durch den Nationalpark Hohe Tauern. \u00dcber 36 Kehren erreicht man Aussichtspunkte bis \u00fcber 2.500 m, darunter die Franz-Josefs-H\u00f6he mit Blick auf den Gro\u00dfglockner (3.798 m) und den Pasterze-Gletscher. Murmeltiere und Steinb\u00f6cke lassen sich an der Stra\u00dfe oft beobachten. Highlights 36 Kehren bis \u00fcber 2.500 m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1071,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","citadela-item-category":[39,40,74],"citadela-item-location":[62],"class_list":["post-999","citadela-item","type-citadela-item","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","citadela-item-category-ausflugsziele-sehenswuerdigkeiten","citadela-item-category-gipfel-berge","citadela-item-category-vogelbeobachtung","citadela-item-location-kaernten"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-item\/999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-item"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/citadela-item"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-item\/999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1504,"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-item\/999\/revisions\/1504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"citadela-item-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-item-category?post=999"},{"taxonomy":"citadela-item-location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-item-location?post=999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}