Kräuterhalsrunde Wildalpen

räuterhalsrunde has a purple route colour as an intermediate marker. The running and walking route is only signposted in one direction. You start at the large signpost next to the Barbara Church in Wildalpen and walk over the old Salzaholz Bridge above the campsite, the trail then continues left on the asphalt road. You will come to a crossroads and follow the signs to the right into the Holzäpfeltal valley, past Jausenstation Astrid and an aqueduct of the II Vienna HochQuellen water pipeline. In front of the Brandl farmstead, turn right uphill through forest and meadow to the Kräuterhals. It becomes comfortable and then it goes downhill and the view changes completely; you can even admire the Riegerin; before you have almost reached the bottom, the path branches off to the right onto a small alpine path. The path runs above the Salza, partly difficult to walk on, to Wildalpen. You come out again at the cemetery and continue back above the campsite to the Salzaholz bridge.

Refreshment stops: Jausenstation Astrid in Holzäpfeltal and Cafe Restaurant Grabner and Hotel Bergkristall in the village centre.

Travelling to Wildalpen by car:

From Vienna: A1 Westautobahn exit Ybbs via Wieselburg, Scheibbs and Lunz/See to Göstling an der Ybbs continue in the direction of Palfau, at the Erzhalden junction turn off to Wildalpen.

From Vienna, Eisenstadt: Semmeringschnellstraße S6, near Mürzzuschlag onto the B23 Mariazeller Bundesstrasse and Mürzsteg and Wegscheid to Gusswerk and on the Hochschwab Bundesstrasse B24 to Wildalpen.

From Linz: A1 to Voralpenkreuz junction, A9 to Windischgarsten, Unterlaussa, Altenmarkt, Grossreifling, Palfau and Wildalpen

From Salzburg: A1 on A9 to exit Ardning/Admont, Gesäusebundesstrasse and B24 to Wildalpen

From Graz: A9 Pyhrnautobahn, exit, Traboch (near Leoben) via Präbichl/Eisenerz, Hieflau, Landl, Gams to Palfau at the Erzhalden junction turn off to Wildalpen.