• Avoid contact with grazing livestock, do not feed animals, keep a safe distance!
• Behave calmly, do not frighten grazing cattle!
• Mother cows protect their calves, avoid encounters between mother cows and dogs!
• Always keep dogs under control and on a short lead. If an attack by a grazing animal is foreseeable: Unleash immediately!
• Do not leave hiking trails on mountain pastures and meadows!
• If grazing animals block the path, keep as far away as possible!
• When approaching grazing animals: Stay calm, do not turn your back, avoid the animals!
• Leave the grazing area quickly at the first sign of restlessness!
• Pay attention to fences! If there is a gate, use it, then close it again and cross the pasture quickly!
• Treat the people working here, nature and the animals with respect!

Over 450 years ago, miners dug deep tunnels into the mountains in Bad Ischl. The "Mitterbergstollen interest group" has restored existing "mouth holes" and sought out and restored tunnel entrances that no longer exist. Up to 16 tunnels of the Pernecker and Lauffner salt deposits can be visited on the signposted theme trail. There is also the mountain church, old miners' houses, the former Schaffer saw and other buildings and ruins. Further information on the theme trail can be obtained from the Bad Ischl tourist office or by clicking on the following link.

In order to present the high ecological value of traditionally managed alpine pastures to the public, information boards on the history, management and animal and plant species found there have been set up on selected alpine pastures. In addition, digital nature trails are being created as a contemporary offering. These allow information about habitats, animals and plants to be downloaded to a smartphone in advance and then accessed on site. The GPS data can also be accessed via outdooractive and alpenvereinaktiv.

With the help of an interactive city map, you can go on a tour of Bad Ischl with your smartphone, follow in the footsteps of writers and musicians or find monuments from the imperial era and many more. Both culturally interested Ischl residents and visitors to the town will discover new things and be amazed at the variety on the cultural trails created by the Ischl Heritage Society.

An adventure trail that focuses on the five senses is designed to familiarise visitors with their own sensory perceptions in an interesting, exciting and surprising way. Various stations such as scent stelae, listening funnels, a tree telephone and numerous other stations turn the ascent into an exciting journey of discovery, where the perceptual phenomena sometimes only become apparent through your own activity. At the summit of Siriuskogl, there is a spacious playground, a telescope on the Kaiser-Franz-Josefs-Warte and an animal enclosure. The Siriuskogl restaurant is located directly on the Siriuskogl plateau and has long been a meeting place for gourmets and foodies.

One of the most beautiful hiking trails in Austria has been created along the tracks of the oldest pipeline in the world. The brine pipeline from Hallstatt to Ebensee, a distance of almost 42 kilometres, was put into operation in 1607. Today, hikers can expect a wonderful hiking trail in the footsteps of the "white gold", past many scenic highlights and peppered with lots of interesting and surprising information about salt, the Salzkammergut and its history.

A wonderful forest trail with information about salt production, the Kaiserhaus and the history of Bad Ischl. It starts at the Ischl Calvary and leads along a beautiful hiking trail to the village of Pfandl. It leads back to the starting point via the Leschitizkyhöhe and the Bauernfeldweg.

Over 370 kilometres through picturesque landscapes and idyllic nature, past deep blue lakes that invite you to linger. The adventure stretches over 14,000 metres in altitude. Give your body, soul and spirit a rest and let yourself be enchanted on your path from lake to lake. Hiking guides and hiking maps are available from the tourist information centres in the Salzkammergut.

The Salzkammergut is rich in culture and nature - and loved for its scenic diversity, which offers hikers everything from leisurely to strenuous routes. In the vast landscape around the large pre-Alpine lakes, pleasure hikers are in their territory.

The Salzkammergut is unique. No other region matches the charm of Austria in such a concentrated form. Nature shows off all its charms in the Salzkammergut.