So unique - so eventful!
The Rauris Valley in SalzburgerLand, one of the largest national park communities, is known as the "secret jewel" of the Hohe Tauern National Park. Here you will come across so many treasures and special features that you could even speak of a "national park world of your own": Pretty much everything that can be discovered in the 1,800 km² Hohe Tauern National Park can be found in a "small space" in the Rauris Valley. Starting with cultural and historical features such as gold mining and the pack trade, glaciers and mighty waterfalls, and natural history highlights such as the mineral treasures of the Tauern Window and the large birds of prey.
Visitors have access to a variety of interactive visitor facilities and educational trails. In the Rauris Valley, you can learn interesting facts about birds of prey in the "Im Facettenreich" National Park House in Wörth and on the educational trail in the "Valley of the Vultures"; the educational trail through the Rauris Primeval Forest was named one of the best educational trails in Austria in 2014.
In both summer and winter, the Hohe Tauern National Park offers a wide range of interactive visitor facilities and educational trails. Tauern in the Rauris Valley, guided hikes with trained rangers are offered.
Hohe Tauern Panorama Trail
At eye level with Austria's highest mountains. The "Hohe Tauern Panorama Trail" is a long-distance hiking experience in a class of its own:
Hikers cover a distance of 275 km over seventeen daily stages. The trail leads right through the holiday region of the Hohe Tauern National Park and offers breathtaking views of the highest mountains in Austria. The 16th stage leads through the Rauris Valley!