Kaunergrat nature park is a must for guests visiting Pitztal.
In the summertime, Kaunergrat Nature Park Pitztal offers a microscopic world of originality and diversity. Experience the high alpine landscape, the dry grassland of Fließ, the glacier at the end of the valley and the diverse protected areas of the nature park. Round off your nature park experience in summer by making full use of the free guided walks with a nature park guide.
During the winter season Kaunergrat Nature Park Pitztal offers guided winter walks (snowshoeing, adventure walks with snow games, searching for animal tracks with a game keeper or a toboggan run on a traditional horn sledge). There is a weekly schedule for these Kaunergrat Nature Park Pitztal excursions.
Nature Park in numbers
- Animal species: 1,100 butterfly species, 1,200 alpine ibex, etc
- Plant species: from dry grassland to typical alpine flora
- Educational trails: 6
- Number of three thousand metre peaks: 84
- Events per annum: 120
- Nature park visitors per annum: 200,000
- Regional tourism figures: ca. 10,000 beds and 1.3 million overnight stays
- 47 catered mountain huts
- Highest percentage of organic enterprises in all of Tyrol
- Highest peak within the Nature Park: Watzespitze (3,532m)
- Highest peak of the Nature Park region: Wildspitze (3,768m)
- “Gepatschhaus” in Kaunertal, Austria’s oldest alpine club house
- According to the Tyrolean land registry, highest percentage of original cultural landscape
- Austria’s largest alpine ibex colony with 1,200 animals
- Typical animal species: great diversity of grasshoppers and wild bees, alpine ibex, chamois, mouflon, red deer, deer, golden eagle, marmots and many more
Nature Park Centre
The Nature Park House was opened in 2007 as the fi rst Nature Park House in Tyrol. The building was modernised in 2024 and has recently been restored to its former glory. Located at 1600 metres above sea level, the visitor centre in the nature park municipality of Fliess is surrounded by an impressive mountain backdrop and is the starting point for countless winter activities.
At Kaunergrat Nature Park Centre
- Get information about special natural beauty spots, hiking trails, culinary specialities and much more
- From December 2024, the new exhibition “Magic of Diversity” will take you into the special features of the Kaunergrat Nature Park!
- Experience unique panoramic views of the surrounding mountain ranges!
- Hire snow shoes for a fee
- Restaurant with all kinds of delicacies and fantastic panoramic views
“Magic of Diversity” exhibition
The Kaunergrat Nature Park House also houses a newly designed exhibition. The areas of nature conservation interest in the municipality of Fliess, such as the natural jewel of the Piller Moor, the mountain meadows and the dry grasslands, are brilliantly staged for visitors of all ages. Let yourself be enchanted by the incredible variety of the extraordinary. Nature worth seeing, which is often hidden from the human eye, can be experienced here with all the senses.
“Magic of Diversity” exhibition open from December 2024
Information & contact Kaunergrat Nature Park:
Kaunergrat Nature Park (Pitztal – Kaunertal)
Gachenblick 100
A-6521 Fließ
Tel. +43 (0) 5449 63 04
naturpark@kaunergrat.at
Nature parc Kaunergrat
Restaurant Gachenblick
Piller Moor
Piller Moor is right next to the Nature Park Centre. It is one of Europe’s most beautiful hill moors and is home to a unique flora and fauna with more than 1,000 butterfly species. Piller Moor is completely accessible for wheelchairs and a great destination for a day trip. The Nature Park becomes tangible thanks to its comprehensive summer programme. Nature park guides take visitors on culinary herbal walks, professional nature photographers offer photo safaris into the world of alpine ibexes and on volunteering days the survival of this fantastic natural landscape can be ensured by taking care of it in a joint effort.
Accessible moor: pioneering Kaunergrat Nature Park
Piller moor at Kaunergrat Nature Park has been completely wheelchair accessible since 2014, the first of its kind in all of central Europe. Over a distance of 700 metres, driveable larch wood bridges guide visitors through this unique habitat created during the last ice age. More than 150 flower and moss species including especially rare and protected species, flourish here. Take in the natural beauty from two viewing platforms. Kaunergrat Nature Park is regarded as a trailblazer and was awarded the first prize by the Austrian ministry of tourism in the “accessible travel” category. Visitors can hire wheelchairs suitable for mountainous terrain and also additional wheelchair pulling equipment, the so called Swiss-Tracs that can easily overcome any variance in altitude if required. Kaunergrat Nature park stretches over a total of ca. 60,000 hectares and includes all levels of altitudinal diversification of the Alps – from the sun-kissed slopes of the Inn river valley with more than 1,000 butterfly species and 500 plants, all the way up to the prominent three thousand metre peaks of Pitztal and Kaunertal. If you wish, you can take part in volunteering projects and gain insight into the life of mountain farmers and park rangers. Or how about a photo workshop with flora and fauna as models? Meanwhile, Kaunergrat Nature Park Centre tempts visitors with a time-line journey through earth’s history and excitingly presented background information (this too is completely wheelchair accessible) Nature parc Kaunergart
