Winterleiten parking - Gr. Winterleiten See (Seetal Alps)

Access to the starting point:
a) From the Gorenjska side, go via the Ljubelj border crossing to Klagenfurt or via Karawanks to Villach. Continue on the motorway in the direction of the signs for Graz / Graz. Leave the motorway after about 2 km through a tunnel in the direction of Bad St. Leonhard. Continue past the village of St. Peter and the small town of Obdach. We continue through Obdach to Judenburg. Follow the signs for Judenburg until you reach the centre of Judenburg. At the roundabout with a petrol station in the middle turn left towards Seetaler Alpe. Follow the road for 17 km and the signs for Winterleiten Hütte and park in the large parking lot before the road closure.
b) From Carinthia, first drive to Dravograd and then on to Austria. Follow the road to St. Paul, St. Andra and Wolfsberg. In Wolfsberg, head towards Bad St. Leonhard and on to St. Peter. Continue following the description from Gorenjska.
c) From the Styrian side, take the Maribor and continue to Austria via the Šentilj border crossing. Follow the motorway in the direction of Klagenfurt / Klagenfurt. Leave the motorway in the direction of the Bad St. Leonhard exit. Follow the description from Gorenjska.
d) Access from Austria. Continue to the southern part of the town, where you will see a hospital. Near the hospital, the mountain road to the Seetaler Alps branches off. The road is marked with signs "Seetaler strasse". Follow the beautiful and initially asphalted road towards the Winterleiten Hütte. Park in the large parking lot before the road closure.

Path description:
From the parking lot, continue along the road, which is closed with a barrier. After a short climb along the road, you come out of the wods and see a lake in front of you and a hut to the right of it.
Continue along the left side of the lake past the chapel in the route "Lukas Max - steig". Follow the path, which ascends only gently, on a slightly vegetated slope. The path then climbs moderately for a short time and leads to the upper and larger Winterleiten Lake.

On the way: Winterleiten Hutte (Seetaler Alps) (1782m)

We can extend the trip to the following destinations: Scharfes Eck (Seetaler Alpe) (1 h 40 min), Zirbitzkogel Hütte (Seetaler Alpe) (1 h 55 min), Zirbitzkogel (Seetaler Alpe) (1 h 57 min)

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