The Enns Cycle Path is very well signposted throughout and measures between 240 and 280 kilometres with altitude differences of around 900 metres, depending on the route chosen. The basic tour from the Enns source area near Flachau to the mouth of the Danube near Enns can be completed in three days, but due to the many sights and recommended tour detours (Dachstein, Grimming, Eisenerz, Reichraminger Hintergebirge), you should allow at least a week.
Information on
A 16-page folder "Enns-Radweg" (with accommodation tips, cycle service points etc.) is available from Steirische Tourismus GmbH in Graz, tel. 0043-316/40030, fax 0043-316/400330, www.steiermark.com
Further information about the Enns cycle path is available from the Radstadt Tourist Office, tel. 0043-6452/7472, fax 0043- 6452/6702, www.ennsradweg.at
Useful information is also available at www.flachau.org, www.dachstein-tauern.at and www.oberoesterreich.at
Arrival
By car via the A8 Munich - Salzburg motorway, from Salzburg via the A10 to Radstadt im Pongau (please note: toll stickers are compulsory in Austria!).
By train to Radstadt im Pongau, timetables on the Internet at www.bahn.de. Partial stages and return transfers can also be done by train. There is a continuous railway connection between Radstadt and Enns. For information call 0043-5/1717, www.oebb.at .
Overnight stay
Haus Silvia, Am Hammerrain 160, 5542 Flachau. For an overnight stay in a double room, including breakfast, you pay from 20 euros per person. Phone/fax 0043- 6457/2545, www.sbg.at/silvia
Culinary tip: Delicious regional and Indian cuisine can be found just round the corner at "Suki" in Wechslergasse 225.
Poschenhof, 8942 Wörschach 13, Tel. 0043-3682/22277, Fax 0043-3682/ 222777, www.poschenhof.at
Accommodation in a double room costs from 27 euros per person including breakfast.
Gasthof Wengerwirt, 8913 Weng 84, double room with breakfast from 28 euros, with half board (recommended) 38 euros per person. Tel. 0043-3613/2270, fax 0043-3613/22704, www.stephan-arend.de
Literature/Maps
A detailed description of the Enns Cycle Route including alternative routes and map sections at a scale of 1:75,000 can be found in the cycle tour book "Enns-Radweg" published by Esterbauer Verlag, price: 8.90 euros. www.esterbauer.com
Worth seeing
The largest monastery library in the world, a museum of natural history and art history, a museum of contemporary art and much more can be seen in the Benedictine Abbey of Admont. Tel. 0043-3613/2312601, www.stiftadmont.at
The full-length article from issue 3/2006 is available as a free PDF download.
