The Seefelder Spitze is a mountain east of

Seefeld in Tirol Seefeld in Tirol is an old farming village, now a major tourist resort, in Innsbruck-Land District in the Austrian state of Tyrol with a local population of 3,312 (as of 1 January 2013). The village is located about northwest of Innsbruck on a pl ...

in the

Karwendel The Karwendel is the largest mountain range of the Northern Limestone Alps. The major part belongs to the Austrian federal state of Tyrol, while the adjacent area in the north is part of Bavaria, Germany. Four chains stretch from west to east; i ...

Alps in the

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n state of

Tyrol Tyrol (; historically the Tyrole; de-AT, Tirol ; it, Tirolo) is a historical region in the Alps - in Northern Italy and western Austria. The area was historically the core of the County of Tyrol, part of the Holy Roman Empire, Austrian Emp ...

. It is 2,221 metres high and there is a summit cross at the top.''Seefeld Leutasch'' 1:25,000 hiking map, Wanderland-Verlag, 4th edn., 2011.

Ascent

There is an easy

waymark Trail blazing or way marking is the practice of marking paths in outdoor recreational areas with signs or markings that follow each other at certain, though not necessarily exactly defined, distances and mark the direction of the trail. A blaz ...

ed route approaching from the ''Rosshütte'' to the northwest. The path runs climbs initially eastwards to the ''Seefelder Joch'' and then turns south along the ridgeline on the ''Panorama Höhenweg'' to the summit. This ridgeline has metal railings for protection in one or two places but is straightforward provided care is taken, especially when busy. The ''Rosshütte'' is at the top of a

funicular A funicular (, , ) is a type of cable railway system that connects points along a railway track laid on a steep slope. The system is characterized by two counterbalanced carriages (also called cars or trains) permanently attached to opposite e ...

from Seefeld and is connected to the ''Seefelder Joch'' by a cable car. Another, more difficult approach is from the more exposed ridgeline to the south from the direction of the

Reither Spitze The Reither Spitze is a mountain in the Karwendel in the Austrian federal state of Tyrol that, thanks to its location at the southwestern end of the Erlspitze Group, is particularly well known for its great views of the surrounding area from its ...

, and there are also unmarked tracks up the west flank.

References

{{Reflist Mountains of Tyrol (state) Two-thousanders of Austria Mountains of the Alps