Kaprun High Altitude Storage Lakes

Visitors travel comfortably to the 2,000-meter-high Mooserboden Reservoir with a shuttle bus. On arrival, you can take a tour of the barrage wall or visit an exhibition to gain an insight into the eternal ice of the glacier world. Incidentally, the breathtaking landscape surrounding the dam is ideal for hiking.

Your day trip starts at the Kesselfall-Alpenhaus, which can be easily reached by car or bus. The bus trip first takes you through the Lärchwand Tunnel and then continues to the Limberg Dam and past the barrage wall of the lower storage lake Wasserfallboden. You then pass the Fürthermoar-Alm and continue on up to the Mooserboden Reservoir which lies at a height of 2,040 m.

The Lärchwand inclined lift is closed through summer 2012 and 2013 for repair work.
For this reason, buses will be used for the transfer up to the reservoirs. Europe's largest open inclined lift will be available again from summer 2014.

The bus trip takes approx. 45 minutes.

The barrage wall of Mooser Dam rises almost vertically to a height of 107 m and bends between the rocks over at total length of 494 m.

A tour of the dam offers visitors a rare opportunity to become familiar with the interior of the construction. Our competent employees will reveal further details and tell some anecdotes from the dam's long history ...

Meeting point/ticket sales directly at the kiosk Mooserboden Reservoir.
Tours, which take approx. 1 hour, are offered daily from 10 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. every 45 minutes.
Group bookings should be made in advance.

The "Electricity & Ice Adventure World" is located between the Mooserboden and Drossen dams next to the Mooserboden Reservoir. Visitors, both young and old, can venture into the fascinating world of eternal ice and experience close up the interplay between the glacier, power plant construction and electricity generation.

The exhibition "Tauern Electricity" takes you back to the post-war 1950s. You will learn about the eventful history of the power plant project Kaprun, which starts with the initial ideas in the 1930s, continues through the Second World War and ends with the reconstruction of the power plant. Exciting details relating to the Myth of Kaprun and its significance for Austria will also be revealed.

The exhibition "Glacier Ice" with its breathtaking diorama showing the Pasterze Glacier and its surroundings is highly impressive and helps you understand the interplay between glacier ice and electricity generation. We will bring you deep into the glacier and reveal the secrets of this wonderful natural phenomenon.

The Information Center is located in the town of Kaprun. With the help of modern interactive technology you will learn everything you need to know about VERBUND, Austria's leading electricity company, and gain an insight into how nature and technology can go hand-in-hand. You can experience the operations in the machine hall of the main weir of the Kaprun power plant at close range from a viewing gallery. 

• The Information Center is open daily from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Entrance is free.

Large tour for groups

• Groups have the possibility to take part in a large tour through the power plant group Glockner-Kaprun (Kaprun-Hauptstufe power plant, Information Center, Mooserboden, barrage wall of Mooserboden Dam).
• The tours are offered from the beginning of June to mid-September and take 4 to five hours (including an hour for lunch) 
• Meeting point is at Kaprun-Hauptstufe power plant (Kaprun-South) 
• Group rate: EUR 220 for the entire group (excl. travel costs)