Nature Park Almenland (Naturpark Almenland) description and photos - Austria: Styria (Topic)

Nature Park Almenland (Naturpark Almenland) description and photos - Austria: Styria. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The name in English is Naturpark Almenland.

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The Almenland Nature Park was founded in 2006. There are 125 alpine meadows on its territory, which makes it unique. Locals poetically call it "the garden of Austria". In the local Alpine pastures, you can see cows, calves, bulls, horses belonging to local farmers. All of them peacefully nibble on the juicy grass and willingly pose for tourists.

The beauty of the natural park can be appreciated at its true worth during the warm season. Most travelers come here in spring, summer and autumn. During this period, the Almenland Nature Park offers its visitors, hikers and sports enthusiasts, a wide range of activities. The park has routes of different difficulty levels. Guests can test their endurance by going on the trail "From Glacier to Wine" which starts at the Dachstein glacier and leads to the wine valley. A walk along the Swamp Trail, where an observation tower is installed, is considered quite curious and informative. If you find yourself here in July, you can see orchid bloom right in the swamps.

However, in winter the nature park is open to tourists. Everyone is given snowshoes, which make it so easy to move around the snow-covered meadows. There are also trails for cross-country skiing, which are laid in a beautiful area.

Among the attractions of the Almenland Park, the "Dragon's Cave" should be especially noted. It was inhabited 50 thousand years ago. The bones of a cave bear were found here. The cave was chosen for wintering by bats.

The reserve has many easily accessible natural monuments: canyons, ponds, waterfalls, streams, peatlands and much more.

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