Hochkönig Straße
2921.0 m · net rise 331.8 m · total ascent 335.1 m · overall 11.4% · evidence quality B (good) · Mühlbach am Hochkönig · Salzburg · share
Shape: sustained — 30% of the climbing sits in a quarter of the distance; longest continuous stretch at 10%+ is 1964 m.
Found purely from mapping and LiDAR data, and not yet matched against books, race records or lists — it may be well known to locals under a name we've never heard. It was cross-checked against the GIP.at road network, OpenStreetMap and a second terrain model, but a discovery can still be an artifact of the terrain model or the map. Treat it as a well-evidenced hypothesis until someone has ridden it. If you know this road, tell us what you found — photographs, corrections and local knowledge all welcome; the map links below let you scout it first.
Gradient ladder what do windows mean?
| Window | Maximum | Located at | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 m (diagnostic) | ≈20% | 744–746 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 72.2% at 2497–2499 m across a structure — excluded |
| 3 m (diagnostic) | ≈18% | 743–746 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 68.3% at 2497–2500 m across a structure — excluded |
| 5 m | ≈15% | 2335–2340 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 58.8% at 2495–2500 m across a structure — excluded |
| 10 m | ≈15% | 2335–2345 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 51.4% at 2490–2500 m across a structure — excluded |
| 20 m | ≈14.2% | 2262–2282 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 32.6% at 2490–2510 m across a structure — excluded |
| 25 m | ≈14.1% | 2322–2347 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 28.0% at 2490–2515 m across a structure — excluded |
| 50 m | ≈13.9% | 2295–2345 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 19.1% at 2490–2540 m across a structure — excluded |
| 100 m | ≈13.8% | 2295–2395 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 14.9% at 2490–2590 m across a structure — excluded |
descends at end Extent detection suggests reviewing where this climb starts/ends.
Map
Check this route yourself: Google Maps route via their router · Street View at the base where coverage exists · geojson.io our exact measured line · OpenTopoMap
This climb's data: OCL JSON — the full gradient ladder, quality flags and provenance in the OpenClimb Ladder format.
Surface: GIP.at, Austria's official transport graph records no surface for this road; the map may tell you more.
Access: Listed 2026-09-13 (Austria wave 4 extent pass (trimmed to the public run)): road audit — barrier gate (no access tag) 0.0 m off route; barrier lift_gate (no access tag) 0.0 m off route. Never silently ranked or dropped (Peter, 2026-08-27). Also trimmed 2026-09-15 at the tail dog-leg (a driveway, Peter's ruling); steepest 25 m now 14.1 %.
Measured, not vetted. This page records what the laser record shows about the road's shape — nothing more. Nobody has necessarily ridden or inspected this road for the survey, and a page here is not a recommendation and no guarantee that the road is open, surfaced, rideable or safe. Gates, private sections, missing rights of way and hazards do not show up in elevation data. Check access and conditions on the ground and make your own judgment.
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Route colour = gradient over a 25 m window: <10% 10–20% 20–25% ≥25%
© OpenStreetMap contributors · topo tiles © OpenTopoMap (CC-BY-SA) · vector tiles OpenFreeMap · aerial imagery © basemap.at (CC BY 4.0)
Profile
The map, profile and gradient chart share one position — move your pointer over them and the marker follows. Colors are the gradient bands; the shaded span is the steepest 25 m. Any 25 m figure is good to about a point either way (why).
Measurement card
| Elevation | BEV ALS DTM 1 m — ALS DTM Höhenraster 1 m (Bundesamt für Eich- und Vermessungswesen with the Länder), EPSG:3035 |
|---|---|
| Resolution / CRS | 1.0 m grid, EPSG:3035; sampled every 1.0 m, bilinear interpolation |
| Tiles | E4553-N2702, E4554-N2702, E4555-N2701, E4555-N2702 |
| Road centreline | OpenStreetMap (local PBF extract), snapshot 2026-09-10T20:21:06Z |
| Quality status | evidence quality B; caveated windows: structure excluded |
| Analysis | OCL 0.1.0, analysis 0.1.0, run retro-260915-dogleg-all, calculated 2026-09-15 |
Provenance
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"road_attribution": "\u00a9 OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL",
"osm_pbf_path": "data/cache/pbf/austria-2026-09-11.osm.pbf",
"osm_snapshot": "2026-09-10T20:21:06Z",
"run_id": "retro-260915-dogleg-all",
"elevation_provider": "BEV ALS DTM 1 m",
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"structure_own_ways": "none \u2014 the route carried no way list; own decks unmasked",
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