Winterleiten parking - Gr. Winterleiten See (Seetal Alps)

Access to starting point:
A) From the Gorenjska side we go over the border crossing Ljubelj to Celovec / Klagenfurt or through Karavanke to Beljak / Villach. Further we head on the highway in the direction of signs for Gradec / Graz. We leave the highway before the approximately 2 km long tunnel in the direction of Bad St. Leonhard. Further, we drive past the village St. Peter and the smaller town Obdach. Through Obdach we continue driving to Judenburg. All the time we follow the signs for Judenburg until we get to the center of Judenburg. In the roundabout, where there is a gas station in the middle, we turn left in the direction of Seetaler Alpe. We follow the road for 17 km and the signs for Winterleiten Hütte and park on the large parking lot before the road closure.
B) From Koroška we first drive to Dravograd and further into Austria. We follow the road further towards St. Paul, St. Andrä and Wolfsberg. In Wolfsberg we head towards Bad St. Leonhard and further towards St. Peter. Further, we follow the description from Gorenjska.
C) From the Štajerska side we drive to Maribor and further over the border crossing Šentilj into Austria. We follow the highway in the direction of Celovec / Klagenfurt. We leave the highway in the direction of the exit Bad St. Leonhard. Further, we follow the description from Gorenjska.
D) Access from Austria: First, we drive to Judenburg, which is situated by the river Mur / Mur in Austria. Further, we drive to the south part of the town, where we notice a hospital. Near the hospital a mountain road branches off towards Seetaler Alpe. The road is marked with signs "Seetaler strasse". We follow the nice and initially asphalted road towards the signs for Winterleiten Hütte. We park on the large parking lot before the road closure.

Route description:
From the parking lot, we continue on the road which is closed with a gate. After a short ascent on the road we come out of the forest, where in front of us we notice a lake and to the right of it a cottage.
Further we continue on the left side of the lake past the chapel in the direction of "Lukas Max - steig". We follow the path, which ascends only gently, further on a slightly vegetated slope. The path then moderately ascends for a short time and brings us to the upper and larger Winterleiten lake.

Along the route: Winterleiten Hutte (Seetaler Alps) (1782m)

The trip can be extended to the following destinations: Scharfes Eck (Seetal Alps) (1 h 40 min), Zirbitzkogel Hütte (Seetal Alps) (1 h 55 min), Zirbitzkogel (Seetal Alps) (1 h 57 min)

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