Grossglockner High Alpine Road Drive Pack | The Stable

The Grossglockner High Alpine Road is Austria's crown jewel of driving — a 48-kilometre masterpiece of engineering that climbs from the Salzburg side through 36 hairpin bends to the Hochtor tunnel at 2,504 metres, then descends past the Pasterze Glacier and Austria's highest peak, the Grossglockner (3,798 m).

Built in the 1930s as a prestige project, the road was designed not just for transport but for the experience of driving. Every curve reveals a new vista — alpine meadows carpeted with wildflowers, marmots whistling from rocky outcrops, and the ever-present wall of glaciated peaks. A detour to the Kaiser-Franz-Josefs-Höhe viewpoint brings you face-to-face with the Pasterze Glacier, Austria's largest.

This route extends beyond the pass itself, beginning in the baroque splendour of Salzburg and ending in the lakeside warmth of Zell am See. Between the alpine drama, there are Salzburg's coffee houses, Pinzgau's dairy farms, and some of the finest mountain hotels in the Alps.