Kaunergrat Nature Park in the Kaunertal

Two valleys offer limitless nature experiences in Tyrol

Nature is everywhere you look in the nature park and glacier region!

Since 2003, the Kaunergrat Nature Park has extended over the Pitztal and Kaunertal valleys and the Sonnenhang Fließ. The nature park extends from Innauen up to the Wildspitze and can be explored in the "3,000 m VERTICAL" exhibition at the Nature Park Museum. 

Learn more about the Kaunergrat, the park's namesake mountain ridge that stands between the Pitztal and the Kaunertal. You'll also learn about the many highlights that the nature park has to offer in the high alpine landscape of the Ötztal Alps. 

We are in the middle of the nature park Kaunergrat

The first nature park museum in Tyrol

Since its opening in 2007, the Kaunergrat Nature Park Museum has been the gateway to adventures in this unique Tyrolean natural landscape. It is a special place where visitors can learn what makes this region so unique. Information and service centre, interactive exhibition, restaurant, all under one roof. The Kaunergrat Nature Park Museum is truly unique! 

By the way, the architecture and the location are equally impressive! Located at the fascinating Gachenblick, the Nature Park Museum brings together the Kaunertal, the Pitztal, and the Inntal. It also offers wide views and sustainability, the two cornerstones of this important project for Tyrol.

Experience Tyrolean nature up close during its opening hours:
© TVB Tiroler Oberland-Naturpark Kaunergrat-Andreas Kirschner

Development of a barrier-free nature park in the Kaunertal

Everyone should have the opportunity to enjoy the special environment in the nature park and glacier region. For this reason, the modern, barrier-free Kaunergrat Nature Park Museum at Piller Sattel is one of many milestones to making this reason available to all.

Other related measures include:

  • building suitable trails
  • creating vantage points with easy access
  • revising information to adapt it to various target group
  • purchasing off-road wheelchairs
  • offer rental of Swiss Tracs to wheelchair users
  • working in partnership with regional businesses


The Kaunergrat Nature Park is well on its way to accessibility, as shown by the Eden Award for offering Tourism for ALL received by the park in 2013. The Gacher Blick viewing platform and the barrier-free Piller Moor speak for themselves. 
 

© TVB Tiroler Oberland-Naturpark Kaunergrat-Kaunertal-Daniel Zangerl

Whether circular hiking trail or tow path: making your way to the Piller Moor

Piller Moor circular trail

On this circular trail, young and old get to know the moor's special feature as a rare habitat. There are seven informative boards along the trail that explain how the moor or peat bog came to be, the vegetation that thrives here, and how peat was once extracted for use as fuel. Accompanied by a knowledgeable biologist, you can expect information and entertainment for the whole family!

To the Piller Moor interpretive trail

Barrier-free boardwalk

Since 2014, the Piller Moor bog has been accessible to wheelchair users, making it the first of its kind in Central Europe. Navigable wooden walkways take visitors 700 m into the unique moor landscape. Guests with reduced mobility can also experience this Tyrolean natural jewel on two special platforms which were rightly awarded the top prize for "Barrier-Free Travel" by the Austrian Ministry of Tourism

To the barrier-free boardwalk
© TVB Tiroler Oberland-Naturpark Kaunergrat-Kaunertal-Daniel Zangerl

Further summer highlights in the Kaunergrat Nature Park

The Kaunergrat Nature Park Museum and the Piller Moor bog are just two of many attractions that will make your summer holiday in the Kaunertal unforgettable. You and your loved ones can

  • follow the interpretive glacier trail from the the Kaunertal Glacier Road
  • walk through an irrigation tunnel on the Kaunerberg Waterway
  • marvel at some ,100 species of butterflies on sunny slopes of the Kauner & Kaunerberg
  • observe the native European dark bee while collecting honey
  • soak up the beauty of the Verpeiltal on an extensive mountain tour
  • experience the rare animals and plants in the Kauns-Kaunerberg-Faggen Nature Reserve
  • visit the Kaunergrat mountain hut at 2,817 m above sea level

As you can see, summer in Tyrol's Kaunertal is guaranteed never to be boring! Also, find out what a winter holiday in the nature park and glacier region promises.

Travelling with your family in winter? Find out what makes the Kaunergrat Nature Park unique in winter and what family-friendly offers in Tyrol's Kaunertal are waiting for you!

© TVB Tiroler Oberland-Naturpark Kaunergrat-Kaunertal-Daniel Zangerl
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Adventmarkt beim Naturparkhaus Kaunergrat

Die Winterlandschaft rund um das Naturparkhaus Kaunergrat verzaubert mit einer einmaligen Stimmung Land und Leute. Geradezu perfekt sich auf die besinnlichste zeit des Jahres einzustimmen...

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Bergweihnacht & Adventmarkt im Kaunertal

Wenn der Winter Einzug hält und Land & Leute verzaubert, dann verwandelt sich das Kaunertal in ein Winterwundertal.Wenn der Winter Einzug hält und Land & Leute verzaubert, dann verwandelt sich das Kaunertal in ein Winterwundertal.

- 20:00
Weihnachtskonzert mit den "Trenkwaldern"

Die Trenkwalder präsentieren 2023 das Weihnachtskonzert "Weihnachtszeit - nimmer weit". Freuen wir uns auf ein stimmungsvolles, weihnachtsliches Programm.

Events & Veranstaltungen

Hochalpine Schneeschuhwanderung
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Schneeschuh Hüttentour mit Rodelabfahrt
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Schnupperkurs Schneeschuhwandern
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Natur respektvoll erleben - Schneeschuhwanderung
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Skitestival Nauders

Zum Beginn der Wintersaison 2023/24 erwartet Ski-Liebhaber wieder die Möglichkeit, die neuesten Skimodelle namhafter Hersteller zu testen. 

 

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Winteropening

SKITESTFESTIVAL - OPENING PARTY  - PERFEKTE PISTEN

Traditionell gebührend gefeiert wird der Winterstart an den beiden Wochenenden!
09. + 10.12. sowie 16. + 17.12.2023 - Skigebiet ist bereits ab 08.12.2023 geöffnet

- 00:00
DJ on Ice in der Winter.Wunder.Welt

Wöchentlich in der Winter.Wunder.Welt 
Termine werden bekanntgegeben.

- 15:00
Nauderer Christkindlmarkt

Freitag, 22.12.2023

von 15:00 bis ca. 21:00 Uhr 

- 18:00
Bergsilvester

Events & Veranstaltungen

Theaterabende im VAZ
- 20:00
Almfrühstück auf der Stieralm
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Weihnachtsblasen
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Silvesterparty im Ibex
- 22:00
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Winteropening

SKITESTFESTIVAL - OPENING PARTY  - PERFEKTE PISTEN

Traditionell gebührend gefeiert wird der Winterstart an den beiden Wochenenden!
09. + 10.12. sowie 16. + 17.12.2023 - Skigebiet ist bereits ab 08.12.2023 geöffnet

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Mondschein-Picknick - unter dem Sternenhimmel

Mitten in der eisigen und tiefschwarzen Winternacht erleben Sie besondere Himmelsereignisse wie Sternschnuppennächte, Meteorschauer, Neumonde... hautnah.

Das unberührte Hochtal liegt fernab von hellbeleuchteten Städten und Lichtquellen und eignet sich daher ideal, um die tausenden funkelnden Sternbilder unter fachkundiger Anleitung zu bestaunen. Nach einer ca. halbstündigen Wanderung wartet ein knisterndes Lagerfeuer, dampfender Punsch und Glühwein auf Sie. Unsere naturpädagogischen Führer begleiten Sie an folgenden Terminen beim Picknick unterm Sternenhimmel:

- 18:00
Bergsilvester

- 10:00
Mittelalterfest

Die altehrwürdigen Gemäuer von Altfinstermünz laden zum Mittelalterfest am Do, 30. Mai 2024! 

Aufregende Ritter-Duelle, spektakuläre Feuershows und die mittelalterliche Musik der Gruppe Heydenrausch lassen die vergangenen Zeiten hochleben.