The Ammergau Alps - award-winning holiday region in summer and winter!
The Ammertal valley and the surrounding hills offer a variety of cultural and adventurous highlights. The unique natural surroundings are ideal for hiking, mountain biking or simply relaxing. In winter, give your skis a run down the slopes or step into royal tracks with your cross-country skis. There are plenty of good reasons why the Ammergau Alps are regularly elected one of the most popular holiday regions.
Leisure activities at the Youth Hostel
- 3 ping-pong tables
- 2 billiard tables and table football in the basement (for a fee)
- Disco and party room with professional music system
- Hard football ground (free for everyone) and grass playing field (for a fee, for clubs only)
- Basketball and volleyball court
- Jogging track immediately by the Youth Hostel
- Volleyballs, handballs, footballs, basketballs, badminton shuttles and racks etc. on loan
- Sport centre with squash, tennis and badminton courts located directly next to the Youth Hostel!
- Cross-country skis, sledges, snow shoes and shovels available at the Hostel.
- Variety of board games on loan.
Leisure activities in the area
- WellenBerg water park - with beach volleyball, slides, spa area etc.
- Kolbensesselbahn chair lift and Laberbergbahn cable car - as much fun in summer as in winter!
- Various mountain pastures and mountain huts with show cheese dairy for a refreshing break
- Passion Plays and wood carving
- Summer toboggan run and leisure museum at Steckenberg
- Ettall Abbey and distillery
- Germany's steepest free ride ski slope on Laber!
- Family ski resorts on Kolben (directly behind the Youth Hostel), in Unterammergau and Bad Kohlgrub
- Almost 150 km of cross-country ski tracks leading through the Ammertal valley - get on track immediately behind the Hostel!
- Ice rink and curling sheet directly next to the Youth Hostel
- New bike park and inline skate park by the Kolbensesselbahn chair lift
- Horse cart rides through the Ammertal valley
- Schliefmühlenklamm gorge and night skiing in Unterammergau
- Reptile zoo at Oberammergau
Outings and excursions
- Olympic site Garmisch-Partenkirchen with ski jump
- Zugspitze and many other mountains between the Karwendel massif and Werdenfelser Land
- Murnau, Mittenwald, Füssen and Innsbruck
- Neuschwanstein Castle and Linderhof Palace, Schachen hunting lodge and Wieskirche chapel
- Staffelsee and Starnberg Lake, Kochelsee and Ammersee lakes
- Höllenklamm, Partnachklamm and Leutaschklamm gorges
- Germany's biggest climbing parks in Farchant and Grainau
- Glentleiten open air museum
- Eibsee round tour and boat tours
- Various climbing and rafting offers
- Ski resorts around Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Mittenwald and in Austria
- Countless mountain bike routes
- Augsburg and Munich are within an hour's reach
- Steingaden and Rottenbruch abbeys
- Hohenschwangau castle on Forggensee lake
- Königliche Kristalltherme (royal bath) in Schwangau and Alpamare water park in Bad Tölz
- Reutte in Tyrol, Lermoos, Biberwier and Ehrwald
- Mittenwald Violin Making Museum
- Various local and regional museums
- Walchensee Power Plant, open to the public; Buchheim Museum
- Murnau Castle Museum and Münter House
- Kuhflucht waterfalls in Farchant
- Benediktbeuren, Lenggries and Sylvensteinspeicher reservoir
- Olympic region around Seefeld, Jachenau, Krün and Wallgau