We visited the area several times in spring, summer, and autumn. The whole area is beautiful and offers a variety of activities, and is only a few tens of kilometers apart from the Hohe Wand Nature Park which is worth a visit as well.
The Schneeberg, with its 2,076 m high summit Klosterwappen, is the highest mountain of Lower Austria, and the easternmost and northernmost mountain in the Alps to exceed 2000 m. It is a distinctive limestone massif with steep slopes on three sides:
The summit plateau has a number of mountain huts that are visited by thousands of walkers, climbers, and even mountain bikers each year:
One of the most attractions of the Schneeberg area is the Schneeberg cog “salamander” railway. You take a nice train to the village of Puchberg am Schneeberg, 577 m above sea level:
and get off after 10 km, at the beginning of the hiking trails leading along the Schneeberg plateau = Hochschneeberg mountain station, 1800 m above sea level which is Austria’s highest station :
The cog railway is a historic railway more than 120 years old. All details about the Schneeberg railway find here.
The summit plateau has a number of mountain huts that are visited by thousands of walkers, climbers, and even mountain bikers each year:
Mountain Biking and Hiking Trails
Schneeberg plateau offers multiple options to reach the peak of Klosterwappen as you can see here on this hiking map below. We did a hiking trail as shown on the same map:
The trail details on the interactive map incl. photos and a statistic here.
We also did a wonderful amazing mountain biking trail in the Schneeberg area with a wonderful view of the Schneeberg plateau, the trail details and more photos are here:
RV or Camper Places in the Schneeberg area:
- The village Puchberg am Schneeberg offers several parking lots suitable for campers, one of them is near the train station:
Coordinates: 47.79073,15.90958
The village itself is very pleasant, and tidy and offers nice places to rest and relax:
2. The Hotel Restaurant Forellenhof in Losenheim offers a camper site that costs 10 Eur and includes toilets and water. Its location is directly on the mountain biking trail with a nice view of the castle Losenheim:
Coordinates: 47.7907452,15.843355
Attractions & Recommendation
We recommend visiting the area of Schneeberg because of the many attractions, among them:
- it is a camper-friendly area
- there is a historic cog “salamander” railway to the Schneeberg plateau
- the village Puchberg am Schneeberg with its Sebastian waterfalls only 20 minutes by feet from the parking lot
- Schneeberg Plateau offers many hiking trails with splendid views of the Hungarian lowlands, Slovakia, the Rax mountains, the Bucklige Welt hills, and as far as Styria. The panorama trail has been created around Waxriegel Peak. It takes around one hour to complete this new circular trail, which is categorized as “easy”
- the area offers many mountain biking trails
- you can easily combine a visit to the area with a visit to the Hohe Wand Nature Park
