Hiking Route Spechtenlake via Leistenalm - Touren-Impression #1 | © Erlebnisregion Schladming-Dachstein Hiking Route Spechtenlake via Leistenalm - Touren-Impression #1 | © Erlebnisregion Schladming-Dachstein

Spechtenlake via Leistenalm

Accessible by public transport
  • Train (within 15 minutes walking distance from starting point)
  • Public bus (within 15 minutes walking distance from starting point)

Characteristics

Skill
Fitness

The tour in numbers

Level of difficulty medium
Route 10,6 km
Time 4:30 h
Uphill 780 hm
Downhill 780 hm
Highest point 1261 m
From Stainach via Leistenalm to Spechtensee. Via the Sinirböden back to the starting point.
OVER THE LAKE TO THE LAKE. Via the Stainach "Hausalm", the Leistenalm you hike over the Leistensattel down to the idyllic Spechtensee. Let your soul really dangle before it goes through the forest and over the Sinirböden back to Stainach.

Best season

January
February
March
April
November
December

More information

From Liezen or Schladming coming, take the depature B320 to Stainach.
From the main square in Stainach in a northerly direction, hike along trail no. 288 to the Leistenalm and on to the Leistensee. Over the Leistensattel you then go downhill to the idyllic Spechtensee. During your rest there you can really let your soul dangle. Through the forest and over the Sinirböden you return to the starting point on trail no. 279.
Strengthening at the Spechtenseehütte
with the bus or the train to stainach

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Tourist information: www.schladming-dachstein.at

Schladming-Dachstein Tourist Office
Ramsauerstraße 756
8970 Schladming
T: +43 3687 23310
info@schladming-dachstein.at

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What the weather will be like Stainach-Pürgg (665m)

Today, 06.07.2026

Unsettled with showers, but also sunny spells from the morning on.
Morning
foggy
16°C
sr.Regenwahrscheinlichkeit 80%
sr.Windstärke 5 km/h
Noon
cloudy
20°C
sr.Regenwahrscheinlichkeit 75%
sr.Windstärke 15 km/h
Night
cloudy
19°C
sr.Regenwahrscheinlichkeit 65%
sr.Windstärke 5 km/h

Tomorrow, 07.07.2026

Dry and partly sunny throughout the day, with cloudy periods from time to time.
Morning
sunny
16°C
sr.Regenwahrscheinlichkeit 5%
sr.Windstärke 5 km/h
Noon
slightly cloudy
26°C
sr.Regenwahrscheinlichkeit 5%
sr.Windstärke 15 km/h
Night
slightly cloudy
23°C
sr.Regenwahrscheinlichkeit 5%
sr.Windstärke 10 km/h

Forecast

08.07.2026
cloudy
15°C 24°C
09.07.2026
very sunny
14°C 27°C
10.07.2026
very sunny
13°C 29°C
Spiegelsee Reiteralm | © photo-austria / Christine Höflehner

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