Bad Kleinkirchheim - Rossalmhütte (by road)

Access to starting point:
A) Through the Karawanks Tunnel, we drive to Austria, and then we continue driving on Tauern highway, which we leave already at Villach bypass highway and we continue driving towards settlements Treffen am Ossiacher See, Afritz am See, Feld am See and after the mentioned settlement we turn right towards the known ski center Bad Kleinkirchheim. We park on a large parking lot opposite the gas station.
B) From Štajerska or Koroška, we at first drive to Dravograd and then over the border crossing Vič into Austria, where we then follow the signs for Celovec / Klagenfurt. Further, we drive on the so-called South highway, which we leave at Klagenfurt (direction Feldkirchen). Further, we drive on a regional road, on which we get to the already mentioned settlement. In Feldkirchen, we continue right in the direction of the mountain pass Turacher Höhe and we drive ahead past settlements Himmelberg, Gnesau, Mitterdorf to the settlement Wiedweg, where we continue left towards the known ski center Bad Kleinkirchheim. We park on a large parking lot opposite the gas station.

Path description:
On the east edge of the parking lot, we will notice an asphalt footpath which after few meters of walking by the stream brings us to a narrower asphalt road, where we notice signs for Talweg, Rottenstein and Kaiserburg. For some time we are ascending on the asphalt road which leads us among houses, and then we get to a marked crossing, where we continue right in the direction of Waldtratte (left footpath on Wöllaner Nock). The path ahead, which continues on the road, crosses a ski track and with a view on Bad Kleinkirchheim brings us into the forest, where it joins a little wider road. We continue on an ascending macadam road, and it soon makes a sharp left turn, after which there is a gate. We continue past the gate and on a relatively panoramic road we ascend to restaurant Bergraustarant Waldtratte, which we reach it after approximately an hour of walking from the starting point.
A little further, we come to a smaller crossroad, where we continue right on a wider macadam road. The path ahead leads us on a moderately steep road which higher quite few times crosses a ski track and which quite few times crosses the footpath which leads towards the mountain hut Rossalmhütte. The road, from which increasingly beautiful views opening up, we follow quite some time, more precisely to the left turn, where signs for mountain hut Rossalmhütte point us to the right downwards on a marked footpath, on which in 2 minutes we descend to the already mentioned mountain hut.

On the way: Waldtratte (1370m)

Trip can be extended to: Kaiseburg , Wöllaner Nock