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Walderlebnisweg Gschaidt
Hiking tour Starting from Village square Gschaidt
- Difficulty: Easy
- Distance: 2,97 km
- Duration: 1:15 h
- Ascent: 117 m elevation gain
- Descent: 117 m elevation gain
The Gschaidt forest adventure trail is designed to bring joy to both very young and older visitors and make them aware of the beauty of nature, especially the forest.
- Starting point of the tour
- Village square Gschaidt
- Tour destination
- Village square Gschaidt
- Difficulty: Easy
- Distance: 2,97 km
- Duration: 1:15 h
- Ascent: 117 m elevation gain
- Descent: 117 m elevation gain
- Fitness level required:1/6
- Overall experience:6/6
- Scenery:6/6
- Lowest point689 m
- Highest point781 m
- Round tour
- Nice views
- Suitable for families and children
Description
20 subject areas are waiting to be explored.
1. use of wood: Wood, our most important raw material
2. young forest: reforestation of deciduous and coniferous trees
3. the large copper beech: a common tree in the forests of eastern Austria
4. forest edge: transition from high forest to meadows and fields
5. flasch'n cross: in memory of the Flasch siblings
6. forest and meadow habitat: and its agricultural use
7. three-country corner lookout point: a view of large parts of Lower Austria, Burgenland and Styria
8 Bösendorfer: wood for fine pianos from our forests
9. sound wood: wood as a good sound conductor (tree telephone)
10. ants: little forest protectors
11. paths in the forest: lifelines that run through the forest
12. mushrooms: from edible to poisonous mushrooms
12. the 250-year-old Scots pine: a seed tree that ensures the survival of its species
14. the ice pond: from "icebox" to biotope
15. tree slice: events in Gschaidt and Austria
16. barefoot course: sensory pleasure for big and small feet
17. biomass: the healthy alternative for energy production
18. tree quiz: 10 trees introduce themselves
19. ditch vegetation: plants by the wayside
20. the largest trees in Hochneukirchen-Gschaidt: surrounded by the kindergarten children
- safety instructions Your hikes in the Vienna Alps should be a thoroughly beautiful and safe experience. Therefore, please note the following: Preparation Make sure when choosing the route that it matches your experience and fitness. Check the weather forecast in advance. The weather can change surprisingly quickly in the mountains. Therefore, always set out properly equipped (e.g. rain protection).Check whether the huts and snack stations you plan to visit en route are open. Inform someone about your route choice and planned return before you set off.More safety tips for your hike can be found here.
- Equipment Always take suitable maps with you. Wear sturdy shoes appropriate for the route, bring sun and rain protection as well as water and a small snack. Take your mobile phone with you and save the mountain rescue emergency number: 140
- Route description It goes past the St. Magdalena Church and then turns left. Follow this street until it leads to the hiking trail. Here you can decide in which direction to walk the circular hiking trail. After that, follow the signage (Wandering Ant) and the last part goes back along the same path to the village square.
- Parking Sufficient parking spaces available
- Getting there From Vienna take the South Motorway A2, exit at Schäffern. Turn left onto L424. Follow L424 and L146 to Gschaidt.From Graz take the South Motorway A2 to Haideggendorf, exit at Pinggau. At the roundabout, take the first exit (Steinamangerer Str./Tanzegg/B63), turn left onto L146. Follow L146 to Gschaidt.
- Public transport More information can be found at www.oebb.at and www.vor.at
- Editor’s tip In Gschaidt there are milk and cheese products from the Reithofer family available for takeaway directly from the farm.
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More info:
Vienna Alps in Lower Austria, www.wieneralpen.at, +43 / 2622 / 78960 opening hours: Mon - Thu 08:30 - 16:00 / Fri 08:30 - 13:00
Tourist information Bad Schönau, www.badschoenau.at, +43 / 2646 / 8284
Letzte Änderung: 16 Mar 2026