page_title: High Tauern
section_title: Tunnels and passes
hierarchical_section_title: High Tauern / Tunnels and passes
caption_attribution_description: Spectacular views on the Grossglockner High Alpine Road in Austria. Looking the south.
context_page_description: The High Tauern are a mountain range on the main chain of the Central Eastern Alps, comprising the highest peaks east of the Brenner Pass. The crest forms the southern border of the Austrian states of Salzburg, Carinthia and East Tyrol, with a small part in the southwest belongs to the Italian province of South Tyrol. The range includes Austria's highest mountain, the Grossglockner at 3,798 metres above the Adriatic.
  In the east, the range is adjoined by the Lower Tauern.
context_section_description: The High Tauern are crossed by three tunnels:
  Tauern Railway Tunnel between Bad Gastein and Mallnitz, finished in 1906
  Katschberg Tunnel on A10 Tauern Autobahn (European route E55) leading from Sankt Michael im Lungau and the Tauern Road Tunnel to Rennweg
  Felbertauerntunnel on B108 Felbertauern Straße highway, between Mittersill and Matrei in Osttirol
  The best-known mountain pass road of the High Tauern is the scenic Grossglockner High Alpine Road inaugurated in 1935, including a tunnel at an elevation of 2,505 metres (8,219 ft) under the Hochtor Pass (2,573 metres (8,442 ft)). East of it, the Katschberg Pass (1,641 metres (5,384 ft)) on B 99 Katschberg Straße highway parallel to the Katschberg Tunnel links Sankt Michael and Rennweg. Another road crosses the Staller Sattel between Sankt Jakob in Defereggen and Rasen-Antholz at 2,052 metres (6,732 ft).
  Beside there are numerous bridle and footpaths, in part used since ancient times:
caption: The Grossglockner toll road
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