An undiscovered paradise for skiing and high-alpine hiking!
Do you love skiing in the Alps but want to avoid the crowds of tourists? The Wildkogel area, named after the Wildkogel Arena sports centre, will be the right place for you.
Wildkogel in winter: skiing and tobogganing for the whole family
The unassuming family mountain resort of Wildkogel offers 75 km of pistes of every difficulty. Shorter lifts and blue pistes keep children and beginner skiers busy, snowboarders can let loose in the snow park here, and fans of freeride skiing have the chance to descend in powder. You can enjoy evening skiing after sunset as well. The joint Wildkogel Arena and Zillertal Arena ski pass is an excellent investment, letting you neatly combine skiing in both neighbouring centres. Another popular centre of winter fun is the floodlit toboggan run right in the Windkogel Arena, 14 kilometres long.
Wildkogel in summer: take in the peaks of the Salzburg mountains
Wildkogel lies in the heart of the Hohe Tauern national park and in summer it appeals above all to fans of hiking. Ride the Wildkogelbahnen cable car up to over 2 000 metres above sea level and admire the extraordinary high-alpine panoramas. Walk across alpine meadows and enjoy the view of mountain lakes and glacier fields. Cyclists and mountain bikers are served well in the Wildkogel Arena too; this very area is part of the famous annual Transalp race. Visit the Krimml Waterfalls 10 km away, or take the children to the Abenteuer-Arena Kogel-Mogel amusement centre. The Wildkogel card (National Park Sommercard) gives you good-value entry to all the popular attractions and the use of public transport.
Accommodation in the area
The Wildkogel Arena search tool offers 187 places to stay in the categories hotel, holiday flat and apartment, aparthotel and mountain hut.
At more than 180 participating hosts the Nationalpark SommerCard is included in the price of the night; it cannot be bought separately. It is valid from 1 May to 31 October for the whole stay, including the day of arrival and the day of departure, and gives one service a day from 60 attractions - among them the Krimml Waterfalls, the museum in Bramberg, the visitor centre in Mittersill, the Wildkogel cable cars, the Grossglockner Hochalpenstrasse and the Gerlos Alpenstrasse.
Typical local food
Restaurants in Neukirchen am Grossvenediger and Bramberg serve traditional Pinzgau cooking, sweet specialities and alpine classics; the tourist board sums this up under the heading Pinzgauer Gastlichkeit.
A local product is Pinzgaubrot from the family bakery of the same name. Summer and winter huts and pastures are an offer in their own right.