Circular route on Salten
by Hotel Schönblick Belvedere - 20.10.2009
Category: Pleasure walk
The Salten mountain plateau is a natural area with extensive meadowland strewn with larch trees and with an extraordinary view of the Dolomites and Sarntal Alps.
Starting point: Hotel Schönblick Belvedere/Jenesien
Route: Hotel Schönblick Belvedere - Gasthof Tomanegger - Salten - Gasthof Edelweiß - center of the village - Hotel Schönblick
Difficulty: easy
Walking time: 3-4 hours
Height difference ascent/descent: 390/390 m
Height at the starting lpoint/highest point: 1080/1470 m
Nature of route: woodland and meadows
Best season: the whole year
Refreshments available: Gasthaus Tomanegger, Gasthaus Edelweiß
Map: Kompass map - 1:50.000, nr. 54
Things of interest along the route: The extensive larch meadows only exist here thanks to the care given to them by the people from the high woodlands. Around 500 years ago the woods here began to be felled for pasturing and it later became largely cleared of the pinetrees, leaving only the larches standing.