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Grossglockner High Alpine Road

Austria's toll road over the Hochtor at 2,504 m, from Bruck in the Salzach valley to Heiligenblut, then down to Lienz.

Distance
54 miles (86 km)
Type
Point to point
Where
Hohe Tauern

100% on the official route

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Click a dot for details. White dots are the stops, each with a bed search. Yellow dots are places to see.

Main roads

L271B107B107aB100

From the map

Longest gap between fuel
27 miles
Fuel stations near the line
16
Curvature
275 ° a mile
Campsites within 2 km
9
  • The longest stretch with no fuel station within 1 km of the line runs from mile 4 to mile 32. Check it against your range with the fuel range calculator.
  • The twistiest 20 miles run from mile 8 to mile 28, at 475 degrees of turning a mile.
  • Passes: Fuscher Törl (2,428 m, mile 17), Hochtor (2,504 m, mile 21), Iselsberg (1,209 m, mile 46).
  • Countries: Austria.
  • One motorcycle shop is within 3 km of the line.

Measured on the route line from OpenStreetMap data, which can be missing or out of date. Curvature is degrees of turning a mile, measured every 100 metres. On our routes they run from 6 on the E19 to 701 on the SP638.

Before you go

  • A toll road. It is normally open from early May to late October, and it closes overnight.
  • Austrian motorways need a vignette, but you can reach Bruck without one.

On the way

  1. Bruck
  2. Fusch
  3. Fuscher Torl
  4. Hochtor
  5. Heiligenblut
  6. Lienz
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1Getting there

Most riders cross to Calais by Le Shuttle or a Dover ferry, or take a longer ferry nearer the route.

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2Places to stay

Search beds in Bruck

3Cover

Check your bike insurance covers riding abroad, get travel insurance that covers motorcycling at your engine size, and breakdown cover that recovers a motorcycle in every country on the route.

What to check before you buy cover

The country on this route

What GOV.UK says riders need for it, checked 05/11/2026. Rules change, so read the official page before you go.

Austria

Money
Euro
Ride on the
Right
  • Austrian motorway vignette, if you will use any motorway or expressway (official site)

On every trip abroad: your licence, insurance that covers riding abroad, the V5C and travel insurance with medical cover. The tour planner turns all of this into a checklist each rider in your group can tick off.

Places to see on the way

Castles, passes, viewpoints and more within easy reach of the line, in the order you reach them. Yellow dots on the map.

Waterfall · On the route

Schleierfall

Waterfall in the Glockner Group in Salzburg.

Fuscher Törl
Pass · On the route

Fuscher Törl

Mountain pass in the Glockner Group in Salzburg.

Photo: StVeit Maps, CC BY-SA 4.0
Jungfernsprung
Waterfall · 0.4 km off the route

Jungfernsprung

Wasserfall des Zopenitzenbachs im oberen Mölltal bei Aichhorn.

Photo: Alexander-93, CC BY-SA 4.0

Place details from Wikidata. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each card.

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