Vienna

Vienna is where our walking stories start. On this page we collect every article set in and around the Austrian capital, from the edge of the city into the green hills of the Vienna Woods. We love that you can leave a busy street, ride a tram or train for a short while and be among beech trees and quiet trails within the hour. Our Vienna guides explain how to reach the forest by public transport, what the paths feel like as the seasons turn, the easy-going culture on the trails and the viewpoints that look back over the city. Where we have them, the articles use our own photographs. We add new routes here only when we have real, first-hand content, so you will not meet empty pages. Please check current local conditions before you go.

Deep blue cloudless sky above a distant low ridge, with a hillside settlement below it and bare brown shrubs in the foreground.

Guide

A Spring Walk from Vienna into the Vienna Woods

How to reach the Vienna Woods from the city by public transport, which marked city hiking paths to use, and what early spring does to the…

View straight down on a leaf-covered forest clearing where a small group of walkers and what looks like a dog stand near two wooden picnic tables, with long tree shadows on the ground and bare trees on the right.

Experience

Grüß Gott on the Trail: Hiking Etiquette in the Vienna Woods

Greetings, shared benches and the written rules behind friendly hiking in the Vienna Woods, from the city's tips to Austrian forest law.

Stylised high hiking boot and low trail shoe, both with lugged soles, standing on a dirt path in front of green hills.

Guide

Hiking Shoes or Boots: How to Choose

Fit, trail shoes versus boots, waterproof membranes, socks, break-in and care: a practical guide to choosing hiking footwear.

Stylised green sports T-shirt in front of layered green hills and a pale sun, with arrows showing moisture moving away from the body.

Guide

Hiking T-Shirts: Synthetic, Cotton or Merino?

How to choose a hiking T-shirt: synthetic, cotton or merino, rough price levels, fit, layering, sun protection, odour and washing.

Clumps of pale yellow primroses growing through dry brown leaf litter, with a few bare shrub stems at the top left.

Story

Spring in the Vienna Woods: Primroses, Blossom, Fresh Green

A photo-led look at how spring climbs through the Vienna Woods, from primroses on the forest floor to blossom and young green on the slopes.

Dark grey clouds over a reddish-brown hillside of bare trees dotted with white blossom and a few green conifers, with a town in the valley at left and a distant city skyline on the horizon.

Guide

Viewpoints and Wildlife in the Vienna Woods

Which viewpoints near Vienna you can reach by public transport, how to read the weather from them, and how to behave around wild boar.