Kaunertal Glacier Road
Feichten to Kaunertal Glacier · Tyrol
Distance15.1mi · 24 km
Drive time33 minon the road
DifficultyDemanding
MountainValley
Tyrolean toll road climbing to a glacier at about 2750m.
The Kaunertaler Gletscherstraße is a 26km dead-end toll road in Tyrol, climbing from Feichten in the Kaunertal valley to the glacier edge at roughly 2750m. It gains about 1500m over 29 hairpin bends and ends at the Karlesjoch cable car, making it one of the longest glacier access roads in the Alps. Mind the high-altitude weather, the toll and that it is a there-and-back dead end.
Where it runs
FeichtenStart · Tyrol
Kaunertal GlacierEnd · Austria
Character
Corners29bends
Tightness7of 10
Max gradient12%≈ 1-in-8
Hairpins21tight bends
Climb1380 mtotal ascent
Summit2666 mhighest point · 8747 ft
Summer
Elevation
1359 m rangeKnow before you go
- High-altitude weather and ice
- Toll road
- Dead-end there-and-back
Along the road
- viewpoint Blockgletscher/Gepatschferner
- viewpoint Visholo
- viewpoint Rifflbach Wasserfälle
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