Best for Families in the Salzburger Sportwelt

The seven holiday resorts of the Salzburger Sportwelt - Flachau, Wagrain-Kleinarl, St. Johann, Radstadt, Altenmarkt-Zauchensee, Eben and Filzmoos - deliver what families expect from a perfect summer holiday: The activities available range from idyllic alpine hikes with pushchairs to children's climbing courses and mountain adventures with funny mascots, small tests of courage and tricky puzzles.

The range of accommodation is just as varied as the activity programme: Family hotels, holiday apartments and farms fulfil all wishes for a relaxed holiday. Nature with its alpine pastures, forests and lakes is the perfect place to forget everyday life, school and work for a few days and weeks. What counts in the Salzburger Sportwelt is just being in the here and now and spending time together with your family.

Hike together over alpine pastures or try out new fun sports. Head up high comfortably on lifts and cable cars and get active on adventure mountains. Splash around in the bathing lake all day or solve fun riddles on over 20 themed trails in the region. Watch dragonflies in the moor or collect fresh eggs from the barn for breakfast. Discover mysterious power spots or go for a walk with alpacas. A summer holiday in the Salzburger Sportwelt is as varied as it is entertaining: cosy accommodation - from family hotels with great children's programmes to family-run holiday farms - offer all the benefits that parents and children of all ages could desire. Wishes big and small are catered for and the days can't be long enough. The mountains are an ideal place to spend time together, make memories and discover new things. Whatever families want from a relaxing and at the same time stimulating holiday: the hosts in Salzburger Sportwelt are true family specialists - and have been for many generations.

With the Best Salzburg Summer Lifts to the Adventure Mountains

The Wagrainis Grafenberg adventure world in Wagrain-Kleinarl comprises more than 30 adventure stations - many of them giant-sized - and is a wonderful summer excursion destination for the whole family. Visitor’s favourites include the giant swing, the giant bouncy cushion, the water play park, the children's alpine pasture, the Grafenbergsee Lake with suspension bridge and raft, and the low ropes course. Skill is required on the course with swing ropes, balancing elements, swing and boulder wall. The "KUHdibu" adventure trail with seven stations is a brand new addition to the attractions on the adventure mountain: most of the trails can be used with pushchairs, two huts invite you to stop for a culinary break.

INFO: www.wagrain-kleinarl.at 

Anyone taking the cable car up the Ghost Mountain in St. Johann is immersed in the world of ghosts: here children are invited to discover the fairytale and legendary worlds of water, earth, air and fire spirits. The Ghost Mountain Train takes you right into the midst of the fun. Along the paths, most of which are suitable for pushchairs, there are around 40 play stations, including the Ghost Mountain Castle and the Ghost Village, water games and climbing towers, air swings and bird nests, the Water World and the Fairy Place. Hikers can enjoy 17 kilometres of marked trails with three huts. "Drachi's beginner's via ferrata" is aimed at daring climbers. The new JOAdventure 18-hole mini-golf course is also open in St. Johann.

INFO: www.josalzburg.com

Around the beautifully situated Gamskogelhütte in Zauchensee, the large adventure playground "Master Cup of Alpine Animals" invites you to particularly sporty entertainment. Here you have to compete with Alpine animals in various disciplines - jumping, climbing, balancing and weight lifting: The sporting challengers include bees, ants and rabbits. Located at an altitude of 1,900 metres, the playground is comfortably accessible by chairlift. It is also the starting point for beautiful hikes, for example to the idyllic Seekarsee lake: this can be reached on the "KUHparKUHr" adventure trail and surprises hikers with giant-sized areas to recharge your batteries.

INFO: www.altenmarkt-zauchensee.at 

Hiking with alpacas

Eben im Pongau is a small holiday gem for the whole family: a real speciality is the "Schwarze Lacken" European nature reserve on the Gerzkopf, which was incorporated into the Natura 2000 European network of protected areas due to its rarity. Once a week, hiking guide Fabienne leads families into the nature reserve. Another hit with families is the children's animal hiking trail (KITIWAPF for short), where you’ll find riddles to be solves and small adventures to be had. An alpaca hike is even more exciting: the furry four-legged friends are simply irresistible hiking companions who also prove to be particularly photogenic.

INFO: www.eben.at 

Thermal baths, bathing lakes and outdoor pools

Children love water: just as well there is plenty of it in the Salzburger Sportwelt. Whether cool mountain streams, mysterious moor lakes or legendary mountain lakes, bathing lakes, outdoor pools or the Thermal Spa Amadé. Whether in summer temperatures or bad weather: "Head for the water" is always a good motto and possible in all resorts.

The bathing world at the Thermal Spa Amadé in Altenmarkt-Zauchensee comprises of seven different pools. Four of them are filled with salt-enriched water. The sauna area with five themed saunas, hamam and steam bath fulfils all wishes for a relaxing time-out for body, mind and soul.

Climbing wall, diving tower and looping slide with rocket launch are a hit with little water rats. A wide range of wellness treatmenst and massages in the Thermal Spa Amadé promises pure relaxation.

INFO: www.altenmarkt-zauchensee.at 

The Wasserwelt Wagrain promise water fun at its best with spacious indoor and outdoor pool facilities. Pure nature and wellness for young and old is promised by the family organic sauna with a wonderful pine scent and the mountain herb steam bath.

INFO: www.wagrain-kleinarl.at

In Eben, the adventure bathing lake with its large water slide, children's pool, playground and restaurant delights both young and old mermaids and water rats. On the spacious sunbathing lawn, the day in the mountains can come to a fitting end with a dip in the cool water and catching the last of the sun’s rays.

INFO: www.eben.at