Miners' Trail - Short Variant via Johannahöhe

Easy and family-friendly walk from Rohrmoos to Obertal valley and back via Johannahöhe - good view and lots of variety.

Short alternative to the Miners Trail to Hopfriesen. This tour takes you half-way to Obertal and loops back to Rohrmoos via a nice trail through the forest.

Characteristics:

alpine pasture

Restaurants:

Rohrmooser Erlebniswelt, Hotel Sonneck, Arx Genusshotel, Restaurant Braunhofer, Wehrhofalm, Holdalm, Eschachalm

POIs:

Johanna Höhe with beautiful view to the Obertal

Alternative:

A somewhat longer (approx. +45 min.) variant of the tour is possible via Ahornweg road, the forestry lane Royer Ötz and the Schlapfer farm.

Characteristics

Skill

Fitness

Best season

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The tour in numbers

easy

Level of difficulty

4,3 km

Route

1:20 h

Time

147 hm

Uphill

147 hm

Downhill

1133 m

Highest point

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More information

From Schladming take provincial highway L722 (Rohrmoosstraße road) to Rohrmoos and at the roundabout continue straight on for about 300 m until you reach the center of the village Rohrmoos.

From the centre of Rohrmoos, walk uphill along the pavement for approx. 300 m until the Knappenweg branches off to the left. Just a few metres further on at the Schußbühel, you feel as if you have been transported to a different landscape: a wide alpine pasture area opens up to the south and the meadow path leads through the middle of the lush pastures of the Rohrmooser Frei.

As you walk gently downhill towards the Obertal valley, you should enjoy the beautiful views of both the Untertal and Obertal valleys. At the vlg. Sonnleitner estate, you reach the Rohrmoos-Südweg/Knappenweg crossroads and hike uphill along the road to the vlg. Pocher where you reach the Johannahöhe and the Schwammerlweg.

The ascent to Johannahöhe leads a short distance across a meadow quite steeply uphill. After another 100 metres on a forest path, you reach the beautiful forest path with the start of the very beautiful Schwammerlweg trail. The forest path then leads slightly downhill in 20 to 25 minutes back to Rohrmoos.

The short variante of Miners' Tour can easily be combined with the Mushroom Nature Trail.

With the Planai buses from Schladming (Planet-Planai, Lendplatz) to "Rohrmoos-Zentrum"

Buses of Planai-Hochwurzen-Bahnen: www.planaibus.at

Parking is available along the street around the hiking trail head.

Tourist information: www.schladming.com

Information about bus schedules: www.planaibus.at

Hiking map ‘Hiking WEST’ available at the information offices in the region.
Schladming hiking map, 1:25,000, available at the Schladming information office.
Hiking map Schladming-Dachstein, 1:50,000, available at the information offices in the region.
Hiking guide Schladming-Dachstein by Herbert Raffalt, available at the information offices in the region.