Hiking route Schleifkogel - Touren-Impression #1 | © Erlebnisregion Murtal Hiking route Schleifkogel - Touren-Impression #1 | © Erlebnisregion Murtal

Schleifkogel

Panoramic hike from St. Johann am Tauern up the Schleifkogel in the Murtal region.
Start in St. Johann am Tauern at the church and head towards Schleifgraben via the Steineralm to the Schleifkogel in the Murtal region

Characteristics

Skill
Fitness

Best season

January
February
March
April
December

The tour in numbers

easy
Level of difficulty
17,3 km
Route
4:15 h
Time
1000 hm
Uphill
1000 hm
Downhill
2063 m
Highest point

Map & downloads

More information

From Vienna via the S36 to Judenburg, then via the B114 to St. Johann am Tauern. From the west, Upper Austria or Germany via the A9 to Trieben, then via the B114 to St. Johann am Tauern
From the church in St. Johann am Tauern, we pass the Kirchenwirt inn next to the elementary school, where we find the signposts pointing east.

A narrow asphalt road takes us to the fork in the road where the hiking trails to the two peaks mentioned above divide.

Information on public transportation can be found at www.verbundlinie.at 
next to the church of St. Joahnn am Tauern
More information at www.murtal.at/wandern  You can also find this tour on the following hiking map:

Region Murtal - Hiking map 3

The hiking maps 1,2&3 - you can get for free at the tourism association Murtal - info@murtal.at  - Tel.: +43 3577 26600

You can also find more information about the region on - www.murtal.at 

In the Murtal region there are three free hiking maps that show the entire region with the Seetaler Alps, Seckauer-, Wölzer-, Rottenmanner Tauern, Stubalpe and the Pöls- and Murtal. The maps are in scale 1.50.000.

Gallery

Spiegelsee Reiteralm | © photo-austria / Christine Höflehner

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