Großglockner Hochalpenstraße

Großglockner Hochalpenstraße leads you upwards with numbered hairpin curves, to the Kaiser Franz Josefs Höhe visitors' Centre, with a panoramic view of the Pasterze Glacier and the Großglockner itself. The road has toll booths at Ferleiten in the direction of Salzburg. Motorbikers arriving from the south from Carinthia come through the picturesque mountain village of Heiligenblut. The Grossglockner itself, at 3,798m, is Austria's highest mountain and the highest mountain in the Alps east of the Brenner Pass. This makes it, after Mont Blanc, the second most prominent mountain in the Alps, when measured by relative height.