Panorama Loop Trail West
Tour description
Beautiful, sunny, and almost completely flat, the Panorama loop leads across meadows and fields, along maple-lined walkways and forest paths with mountain rivers, and past traditional farmhouses. Enjoy gorgeous views of the impressive Dachstein, the Scheichenspitze, and the Schladming Tauern. This easy-going walk with wide trails is suitable for prams, the Tannenweg trail with a sporty pushchair. Lots of benches, refreshment points, stroller friendly. Ramsau Ort ski jump, Kneipp facility, fountain with drinking water along the way, old farms, maple and rowan tree avenues, family hiking trail. The Evangelical Church of Ramsau is also on the way: It was built in 1895 from the rock of the Scheichenspitze using thousands of voluntary hours of work by the population together with specialists from Italy. It stands on a 12 m high pilot. Ramsau was the first tolerance community in Styria and still is today about 80% Protestant.
The tour
Map, elevation profile & further information
Beautiful, sunny and almost flat panoramic path on the Ramsauer plateau. From the event center first to the Protestant church, past the cemetery towards Knollhof. A beautiful, wide meadow path suitable for strollers leads through the larch forest to the Grahhof (the oldest farm preserved in the Salzburg architectural style) and further, along rowanberry and maple avenues to the Dachsteinstrasse toll booth. In between there are always very beautiful views of the mountains of the Schladminger Tauern (the Styrian Kalkspitze is dominant) and of the southern flank of the Scheichenspitze, as well as of the Dachstein triumvirate (Hoher Dachstein, Mitterspitz and Torstein). Down the stream to the Tannenweg junction at the foot of the Rittisberg, left along the Tannenweg along the edge of the forest via "Ramsau Beach" (bathing lake) back to the village of Ramsau.
From the west: Tauernautobahn A 10 to the Ennstal junction - exit in the direction of Graz/Schladming - around 20 km on the Ennstal federal road to Schladming - Ramsau junction.
From the east: Pyhrnautobahn in the direction of Liezen Ennstalbundesstraße to Schladming - Ramsau junction.
Follow the Ramsauer Landesstraße to the Ramsauer Plateau and continue from there to the village of Ramsau.
Car parking at the Congress Center Ramsau am Dachstein (Veranstaltungszentrum Ramsau)
With the ÖBB trains to Schladming train station and from there with bus #960 of the Ramsauer Verkehrsbetriebe to Ramsau am Dachtein - stop at "Ramsau Ort".
- Ramsau public transport company: www.rvb.at
Stay on the marked trails and remember to close pasture fences again.
GPS data and orienteering
Available GPS data - just like hiking maps - is only a guidance for orientation and can never depict a trail exactly with all its details. Especially at dangerous spots it is essential to judge on site how to proceed.
In an emergency please call:
- 140 - for Alpine emergencies (all over Austria)
- 112 - European GSM emergency number
Hiking or trekking shoes with grip sole, jacket.
SCHLADMING-DACHSTEIN summer experience map WEST, available at the information offices in the region.
