The most beautiful mountain bike tours with refreshments

Almost all of the huts listed above have received either a Bewusst Tirol, Gault&Millau or Falstaff award. This emphasises the high culinary quality of these huts. This combination of traditional Alpine Club huts, rustic Alpine pastures and award-winning cuisine and exceptional Tyrolean landscapes makes the mountain bike tours particularly attractive. Below you will find an overview of the awards:

• Awarded Gault & Millau or Falstaff

Almost all of the huts listed above have received either a Bewusst Tirol, Gault&Millau or Falstaff award. This emphasises the high culinary quality of these huts. This combination of traditional Alpine Club huts, rustic Alpine pastures and award-winning cuisine and exceptional Tyrolean landscapes makes the mountain bike tours particularly attractive. Below you will find an overview of the awards:

• Bewusst Tirol

The "Bewusst Tirol" award is an initiative of Agrarmarketing Tirol, which promotes the use of regional foods in Tyrolean catering. This award is given to businesses that use a high proportion of Tyrolean products. At huts with this award, you can enjoy authentic Tyrolean cuisine.

• Gault&Millau

The renowned restaurant guide Gault&Millau provides an overview of the best mountain pastures and huts in its own hut guide. A total of 170 mountain huts and lodges in Tyrol were visited and rated according to various criteria for the 2024 guide. The huts are listed according to what they offer, so the guide includes recommendations for gourmet huts, family-friendly huts and top excursion destinations that serve their own products.

• Falstaff

The renowned Falstaff magazine has also published its own hut guide, which focuses on the best hiking, Alpine and ski huts in Austria. The hut guide rates and lists huts according to various criteria such as cuisine, ambience and service, while also taking accommodation into account. The ratings in the Hüttenguide are based on the total points awarded by the Falstaff testers. Home-made delicacies, the panorama and the romance of the parlour play a major role.

With its 6,000 kilometres of officially approved mountain bike routes and more than 300 kilometres of single trails, Tyrol is a paradise for mountain bikers. All official routes are well signposted and seasonal road closures or bans are indicated. In addition to the signposted, official enduro routes, you will also find high-quality bike parks and a well-developed trail network - the mountain railways will be happy to transport you and your bike to the starting point. This means that bikers will find over 5,000 kilometres of official bike trails.

All of our pleasure routes are also suitable for e-bikes. When a route is suitable for e-bikes depends not only on the condition of the path (tarmac and well-surfaced forest paths are particularly suitable), but also on your own ability. While the e-bike often makes the ascent easier, the descent is often more difficult to master. Due to the considerable weight, braking with the e-bike on loose surfaces must be practised.

Although you can already see a lot of e-bikers in Tyrol, not every hut has an e-bike charging station. If your battery is not fully charged for the tour, you should take a spare battery with you or find out in advance about the charging facilities on the route. Not only huts, but also many cable car stations have such facilities.

There are many huts and mountain pastures in Tyrol, but to better define them, we need to differentiate between them. A hut usually serves as a shelter and resting place for hikers or mountaineers and offers accommodation and food in the mountains. These huts are often located at higher altitudes and in remote locations and can be either managed or unmanaged. In contrast, an alpine pasture refers to a mountain grazing area used for grazing cattle in the summer. Alpine pastures include both the grazing area and the associated buildings. There are also huts and mountain pastures run by private individuals or by Alpine associations such as the Alpine Club. The Alpine Clubs with their mountain huts are the largest accommodation providers in the Alpine region - there are 230 Alpine Club huts in Austria alone, 170 of which are located in Tyrol.