Hochalmspitze
#182 among destinations in Austria
Facts and practical information
The Hochalmspitze is located east of Mallnitz in the Austrian state of Carinthia. It is sometimes called "Tauern Queen" as a counterpart to the "Tauern King", the Grossglockner. ()
CarinthiaAustria
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Hochalmspitze – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)
Nearby attractions include: Dösener See, Ankogel, Reißeck Mountain, Großer Sonnblick.
- 2.9 miSWNature, Natural attraction, Lake
Dösener See
75 min walk • Dösener See is an alpine lake of Carinthia, Austria. It is part of the High Tauern National Park.
- 4.2 miNWNature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Ankogel
107 min walk • The Ankogel is a mountain in the Ankogel Group in the eastern High Tauern range in Austria. It is the second highest mountain in the group, the Hochalmspitze being higher at 3,360 m.
- 5.1 miSENature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Reißeck Mountain
131 min walk • The Reißeck, also Großes Reißeck is, at 2,965 metres above the Adriatic, the highest peak of the Reißeck Group in the High Tauern of Carinthia, Austria. The range forms the southern part of the larger Ankogel Group with its highest summit, the Hochalmspitze, separated by the col of Mallnitzer Scharte at 2,673 m.
- 5.3 miNENature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Großer Sonnblick
136 min walk • The Großer Sonnblick or Malteiner Sonnblick, a mountain with a height of 3,030 m, is a peak in the Ankogel Group of the Hohe Tauern range in Austria. It is the easternmost peak of the Alps with a prominence over 100 metres and with a height exceeding 3,000 metres.
- ~290 ftNENature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Ankogel Group
2 min walk • The Ankogel Group is a sub-group of the Central Eastern Alps. Together with the Goldberg Group, the Glockner Group, the Schober Group, the Kreuzeck Group, the Granatspitze Group, the Venediger Group, the Villgraten Mountains and the Rieserferner Group it forms the mountain range of the Hohe Tauern.
- 5.8 miNENature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mittlerer Sonnblick
148 min walk • The Mittlerer Sonnblick is a 3,000 metre high sub-peak of the Großer Sonnblick to which it is linked by a knife-edge ridge. It is a border peak between the two Austrian federal states of Carinthia and Salzburg.
- 7.9 miSWForts and castles
Schloss Trabuschgen
201 min walk • Trabuschgen Castle on the northern edge of Obervellach is privately owned. The name Trabuschgen goes back to a Slavic term for a bulbous elevation of land.
- 5.9 miNENature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Three-thousander
150 min walk • Three-thousanders are mountains with a height of between 3,000 metres, but less than 4,000 metres above sea level. Similar terms are commonly used for mountains of other height brackets e. g. four-thousanders or eight-thousanders.
- 2 miSWNature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Säuleck
52 min walk • Säuleck - a peak in the Ankogelgruppe group, in high tauri in the Eastern Alps. It lies in Austria in the union country of Carinthia. It is adjacent to Hochalmspitze, with which it is connected by a long ridge.
- 3.1 miSWAlpine hut, Hiking
Arthur-von-Schmid-Haus
79 min walk • The Arthur-von-Schmid-Haus is an alpine club hut of the Graz section of the Austrian Alpine Club in the Ankogelgruppe in the Hohe Tauern mountains. It is located at an altitude of 2281 m above sea level in the Dösental valley above the valley town...