The national park Kalkalpen in Upper Austria in the Sensengebirge and Reichraminger Hintergebirge is the biggest forest protectorate of Austria. It involves 20.825 hectare and stretches across a sea level of 385 to nearly 2.000 meters. A colourful mosaic of rambling forests peaks of mountains with good prospects, hidden treasures, untested mountain rivulets and attractive mountain pastures. Rare and endangered animals and plants find here a living space and retreat area; for example the golden eagle, lynx, white-backed woodpecker and the rosalia longicoen as well as more than 30 kinds of orchids. On the tramp the bear passes the national park from time to time.

Here the visitor undergoes a variety of beauties of nature, which are not only famous in Austria, also in other countries too. This biggest, unsettled wood mountains in the Eastern Alps with three dozens of different kinds of forests and the longest undamaged system of rivulets in Austria shelters plants and kind of animals, which are in danger of extinction elsewhere. Around and in the national park Kalkalpen hundreds of kilometres of marked ways, family-friendly hiking and cycle paths and more than 300km signposted mountain bike tours make this region attractive. Certificated national park persons in support accompany you by guided walking tours through the national park and put over lots of interesting things about the fauna and flora in the region.