Floodplain & shore trail - Long variant / Trail 8

Name: Floodplain & shore trail - Long variant / Trail 8
Brand: Steiermark
Rating: 5 (4 reviews)

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Somewhat longer but all the more beautiful hiking trail. Through forests and along Feistritz and Rittschein and past the golf course. Scenically charming, largely flat.

The tour leads through a beautiful mixed forest into the Rittscheintal to Gillersdorf - past the golf course you reach the Feistritz (a natural border river to Burgenland). This section is particularly charming. In total you walk through 3 districts: Gillersdorf, Dietersdorf and Bad Loipersdorf. Along the Rittschein you come back to Gillersdorf and from here you have the ascent via Hartbergen back to the spa. Past the Hartbergschlössel (private) you can take a break at the Thermenstadlheurigen (open from 16.00; except Sun), or at Martin's Heurigen (from 11:00 except Thu). Immediately afterwards, on the panorama terrace of the VINO.TAKE, you have a beautiful "look back" into the valley where you were shortly before on the way. Then it's a leisurely walk - somewhat off the road - back to the spa resort.

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The tour in numbers

medium

Level of difficulty

19,8 km

Route

5:00 h

Time

188 hm

Uphill

188 hm

Downhill

355 m

Highest point

234 m

Lowest point

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FROM VIENNA & LOWER AUSTRIA

By car:

South freeway (A2) to exit Ilz/Fürstenfeld. From here via Fürstenfeld bypass to Bad Loipersdorf.

FROM GRAZ

By car: on the A2 motorway in the direction of Vienna as far as the Ilz/Fürstenfeld exit. From here via Fürstenfeld bypass to Bad Loipersdorf.

FROM WESTERN AUSTRIA AND BAVARIA

By car: via Salzburg on the Phyrn freeway (A9) and the Süd freeway (A2) or via Carinthia on the Süd freeway (A2) to the Ilz/Fürstenfeld exit. From here via Fürstenfeld bypass to Bad Loipersdorf.

FROM ITALY OR SLOVENIA

By car: via Villach on the southern freeway (A2) to the Ilz - Fürstenfeld - Bad Loipersdorf exit or via Maribor on the Phyrn freeway (A9) and the southern freeway (A2) in the direction of Vienna to the Ilz/Fürstenfeld exit. From here via Fürstenfeld bypass to Bad Loipersdorf.

Detailed information on how to get there can be found here.

THERMENLANDBUS

The Thermenland bus runs two times a day on weekdays and once a day on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays between Vienna and the Loipersdorf spa resort.

It is worthwhile in the area of the Feistritz - where it is possible - to go all the way to the bank. A natural landscape with this flora and fauna is now rarely seen. Impressive how a river makes its way and with a lot of luck you might see a kingfisher.

Detailed information about arriving by ÖBB (Austrian Federal Railways) can be found at www.oebb.at or on the Verbundlinie Steiermark website www.busbahnbim.at

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Parking lots in front of the thermal resort Loipersdorf.

Tourist Office Thermen- & Vulkanland
Guest information Bad Loipersdorf
Thermenstraße 152
8282 Bad Loipersdorf
Phone: +43 3382 55 100-82
badloipersdorf@thermen-vulkanland.at
www.thermen-vulkanland.at