Facts & figures
Here we provide you with an overview of some facts & figures about the holiday region of Achensee – short and sweet.
- Achensee
Achensee is a natural lake created by glaciers.
- Volume – water content: 481 million m³
- Surface area: 6.8km²
- Length: 9km
- Width: max. 1.3km
- Depth: 133m
- Circumference: 21.3km
- Earth’s curvature: 1.38m
- Theoretical water renewal: 1.9 years
- Originated: over some 20,000 years ago as a terminal moraine-dams lake after the last Ice Age
- Water quality: very good
- Surface area of the entire Achensee region: 390km²
- Hiking trails
Total kilometres covered by hiking trails: 500km of signposted hiking trails
- In the valley: 114km
- Moderate difficulty level ‘red’ hiking trails: 285km
- Difficult ‘black’ hiking trails: 101km
- Highest mountain in the holiday region of Achensee: Sonnjoch in the Karwendel mountains, 2457m
- Nature Park Karwendel
The biggest interconnected conservation area in the Northern Lime Stone Alps and the biggest nature park in Austria.
Total surface area: 920km²
Prices for the toll roads into the “Falzthurn-” and the “Gern” valley in Pertisau:
Motorbike, scooter: EUR 3.00
Car: EUR 4.50 and car with an AchenseeCard: EUR 4.00
Bus per person: EUR 0.70
1 week ticket: EUR 11.00
2 weeks ticket: EUR 15.00
3 weeks ticket: EUR 20.00 - Cycling & Mountain biking
- Overall kilometres covered by cycle routes: around 180km
- Overall kilometres covered by mountain bike routes:
- Blue: 35km
Red: 185km
Black: 30km - long distance cycle route München Venezia – bicycle pleasure trip from the alps past the holiday region of Achensee to the adria
Total length: 560km - Achensee is an E-Bike region: 13 hire stations + E-bike village Wiesing
- Running
Overall kilometres covered by 23 running routes: 183km
Blue: 26.5km
Red: 78.5km
Black: 78km - Cable cars
- Karwendel cable car in Pertisau, www.karwendel-bergbahn.at
- Rofan cable car in Maurach, www.rofanseilbahn.at
- Golf
- Posthotel Alpengolf in Achenkirch, www.posthotel-alpengolf.at
- Achensee Golf and Country Club in Pertisau, www.golfclub-achensee.at
- Fishing & Fly fishing
Available with a valid fishing permit.
- Issuing offices: Gasthof Fischerwirt in Achenkirch, Seecamping Wimmer in Maurach, the boat house in Pertisau
- Types of fish: Seabass, pike, brown trout, minnow, bullhead, rainbow trout, whitefish, roach, tenches, lake trout, Arctic char, burbots
Fly fishing- Card issuing offices: in the Tourist offices in the region, online at hejfish.com
- types of fish: brown trout, rainbow trout, bullhead
- Climbing
Climbing routes in the Rofan mountains and some also in the Karwendel
- Number of climbing gardens/climbing areas (incl. Alpine areas): 13
Proportion of easy routes: (UIAA 2 – 5) 30%
Proportion of difficult routes: (UIAA 6 – 8) 40%
Proportion of extreme routes: (UIAA 9 – 11) 30% - Number of via ferrata: 8
- Detailed information available at www.climbers-paradise.com/achensee
- Number of climbing gardens/climbing areas (incl. Alpine areas): 13
- Skiing – Ski areas
4 Ski areas and 2 practice terrains
- Hochalmlifte Christlum in Achenkirch – 27km – blue: 6km, red: 16km, black: 5km
- Rofanseilbahn in Maurach – 11km – blue: 1km, red: 8km, black: 2km
- Karwendel-Bergbahn in Pertisau – 12km – blue: 6km, red: 6km
- Planberg- und Wiesen lift in Pertisau – 1 km – blue: 1 km
- Rofanlifte in Steinberg – 1km – blue: 1km
- Astenberg Lift in Wiesing – 1km – blue: 1km
Overall kilometres of pistes in the region: 53km pistes
Blue: 176m
Red: 30km
Black: 7km
Longest ski run in the region: Rofan valley run at 6km - Cable cars and lifts in the region – Winter
1 cabin cable car
1 pulsed movement gondola lift
6 chair lifts, 11 T-bar lifts, 11 baby lifts - Snow-making facilities
Achenkirch: 27 kilometres of pistes
Maurach: 5.6 hectares snow-covered area – 2 kilometres of pistes
Pertisau: 1 kilometre piste snow-covered - Cross-country skiing
Overall kilometres for cross-country skiing: 211,5km classic and skating
- Classic slopes: 110,5km
Difficulty levels: black: 22.5km, red: 41km, blue: 47.5km - Skating slopes: 103km
Difficulty levels: black: 22.5km, red 35km, blue: 43km - Adaptive nordic skiing: 45km spread over the villages Achenkirch, Maurach and Pertisau
- Snow-making facilities in Pertisau, Achenkirch and Maurach: around 40km can be covered with artificial snow
- Dog trails: 2km in Pertisau
- Classic slopes: 110,5km
- toboggan runs
- Achenkirch: 3.5 km, Christlum toboggan run, only illuminated on Wednesday
- Maurach: 1.5km, illuminated
- Pertisau:
Pertisau toboggan run: 1.3km, illuminated
Zwölferkopf toboggan run: 4.8km - Steinberg: 800m, illuminated
- Wiesing: 3km, Breitlahn toboggan run illuminated
- Winter hiking
Overall kilometres covered by winter hiking trails: 150km
- Ice-skating
Number of ice rinks: 4 (Achenkirch, Maurach, Pertisau, Wiesing) – the one in Maurach is an artificial ice rink
- Other fun sports
Snow-biking, snow-kiting, snowboarding, snow-tubing, snow-shoe hiking, horse-riding, kite surfing, inline skating, climbing, paragliding, SUP, Nordic walking, beach volleyball, tennis