Oberwenger panoramic route MTB2

Spital am Pyhrn - Oberweng - Großhütte - Sonnleitner Schottergrube - Holzeralm - Gowilalm crossroads - Flinderlmühle - Oberweng - Spital am Pyhrn

Start: Indoor swimming pool car park in Spital am Pyhrn, altitude 650m - along the B138 (marked cycle lane) 1 km to the Oberweng goods road junction - asphalted, relatively evenly ascending road, past the Gatterburg chapel to the Zickgut in Oberweng; 2.7 km, altitude 815m - turn right via the Hochgasse goods road, evenly ascending to the former Großhütte inn; 5.4 km, altitude 1.037m - end of the tarmac road, particularly impressive viewpoint into the Windischgarsten valley; from the former Großhütte inn, a public gravel goods road leads, first slightly uphill, then flattening out a little and the last section steeply uphill, to the Sonnleitner gravel pit - forestry barriers, 1.6 km; after 100m you reach the summit at 1.160 metres above sea level - magnificent panoramic views of the Great and Little Pyhrgas, Bosruck, Pyhrn Pass, Niedere Tauern, Warscheneck area. The forest road descends slightly to the Holzeralm, 1,135m above sea level, 950m long.

Hiking suggestion for a combined tour: lock your bike at a bike stand and hike to the beautifully situated Gowilalm at 1,375m. Walking time to the hut approx. 45 min. on trail no. 618.
Riding mountain bikes/e-bikes is expressly forbidden on the trails to the Gowilalm!

From the Holzeralm, the forest road begins with a steady, 1 km long ascent to the intersection of the forest road and the Gowilalm trail at 1,180m above sea level. On this section of the road you have a wonderful view down into the unspoilt Goslitztal and a magnificent view of the Tote Gebirge, the Warscheneck and the Prielgruppe. Crossroads to the left, downhill on the Gowilalmweg. Watch out hikers! Continue to the fork in the road, turn slightly right along the beginning of the forest road to another fork in the road, straight ahead along an approx. 20m long forest path to the next forest road, descending in two hairpin bends to the forest barrier. Continue on a slightly descending forest road through pastureland to the junction with the tarmac Goslitzerstraße. Pass the Singerskogel holiday farm and descend approx. 500 m to the road junction at the Flinderlmühle. Initially flat, later slightly downhill via Oberweng back to the starting point in Spital am Pyhrn.

*Rest stops: Jausenstube Singerskogel and Gowilalm.

* Mountain bike circuit: 16.9 km
* Difference in altitude: 740m
- Spital am Pyhrn 650 m
- Sattel - Schottergrube 1.160 m

*Course of the route:
- 5.5 km tarmac road, moderately ascending
- 3.7 km gravel, slightly - more ascending
- 5.3 km gravel, descending
- 5.5 km tarmac road, descending