Austria Road trips

3 curated road trips in Austria — Grossglockner High Alpine Road, Across the Austrian Alps, Tyrol & Vorarlberg. Mapped stops, distance, duration, best season, and practical route notes.

These 3 routes range from 100 to 500 km and from 1 to 5 days, across 1 country. Top picks: Grossglockner High Alpine Road, Across the Austrian Alps, Tyrol & Vorarlberg.

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  LegendaryGrossglockner High Alpine RoadAustria · 96 km · 1 dayThere's a reason the Grossglockner Road is often cited as the finest drive in the Alps, a 48 km rollercoaster of sheer glacier-encrusted mountains, waterfalls, forested slopes, jewel-coloured lakes, and 4,000 m peaks on almost every distractingly lovely bend. The crown is Grossglockner itself at 3,798 m, Austria's highest peak, and the rapidly retreating Pasterze Glacier below the Kaiser-Franz-Josefs-Höhe lookout.
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  IconicAcross the Austrian AlpsAustria · 500 km · 3–4 daysThe great Austrian crossing from Tyrol to Vienna, from Innsbruck's Golden Roof and Habsburg legacy, over the Brenner Pass and through the Salzkammergut's lake district (where Hallstatt gave its name to the Iron Age), into the Baroque splendour of Salzburg (Mozart, the Sound of Music, the Salzburg Festival) and finally the imperial grandeur of Vienna. Austria's full cultural and natural range in one drive.
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  IconicTyrol & VorarlbergAustria · 383 km · 3–5 daysFrom opera-festival Bregenz on Lake Constance east through the Alpine valleys of Vorarlberg and Tyrol to Salzburg, past 50 schnapps distilleries in Stanz, the cheese-making secrets of the Bergkäserei Schoppernau, the monumental abbey at Stift Stams, and the treasures of Innsbruck. Austria's great mountain transect.