The Driver's Roadbook 2026 · Germany, Austria and South Tyrol · out now

Here the gate is a toll booth and a closing time. One road has a barrier instead, and every list still recommends it.

44 driving roads across the Alps, the pre-Alps and the German uplands, one page each: what the road is like to drive, this year's toll, when the gate opens and when it shuts, up to four places worth stopping for, and a button that opens the whole route in Google Maps. 1,902 km of road, every line drawn from OpenStreetMap, and every toll and season checked for 2026 against the operator that sets it.

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Page 2 of the book: the key map

Roads

Germany, Austria and South Tyrol

Road

1,902 km

measured, not rounded up

GPX files

one per open road

Season

2026

access rules, tolls and closures

Price

€26.99

one download, VAT included

Why these roads

The toll is this year's, from the booth that charges it

The Grossglockner is 46.50 EUR a car for summer 2026 and its gates stop admitting around 20:00; the Timmelsjoch is 20.00 EUR one way, charged on the Austrian side only; the Nordschleife is 30.00 EUR a lap, Monday to Thursday. Each figure was read from the operator's own page and that page is named beside it. Where a price could not be confirmed it prints blank, and two do.

One road is shut, and the book opens on it

The Silvretta High Alpine Road has been closed since a rockfall in July 2024 and reopens in 2030 at the earliest. It scores 10.0, it is still first in every search, and it is page 01: the page tells you not to drive it, ships no route link and no GPX track, and names the Hochtannberg Pass, 33 km away and open, instead.

Four places worth stopping for, each checked

Somewhere to eat well, somewhere to eat cheaply, somewhere to sleep and something worth a look, on every road, each checked as still trading and measured against the road's own track. The Werkraum Bregenzerwald prints on four Vorarlberg roads because it is inside the ceiling on all four. Nothing here is paid for or affiliated.

Try five roads first

The same two files cut to five roads, in exchange for an email address. Nothing is cut down except the number of roads.

Take the five-road sample

What this book does not do

I have not driven these roads for this edition

What is on the pages comes from maps, elevation profiles, curve counts, operators' own sites and other drivers' published accounts, read against each other. The drive score compares the roads with each other on one scale; it cannot know the surface or the weather on the day you go.

It is an Alpine book, and the free sample shows you that before you pay

28 of the roads sit in one cluster across the Alps and the pre-Alps. Innsbruck has 21 within 150 km, Munich 16, Frankfurt 8, Cologne 5. Hamburg and Berlin have none, and their nearest road is 189 and 186 km away. The sample draws the same map of all 44 roads, so you can hold it against where you live.

Two tolls print blank

The Kaunertal Glacier Road and the Zillertal High Road. I could not confirm the 2026 price from the operator, so there is no price. Blank is what an unconfirmed number looks like in this book.

The 44 roads

Names as the book prints them. No drive scores here: they are part of what the book is.

Germany 21

Bavarian Forest Arber LoopBayern45 kmopen

Black Forest High RoadBaden-Württemberg60 kmopen

Eifel Hohe Acht LoopRheinland-Pfalz45 kmopen

Franconian Switzerland LoopBayern45 kmopen

German Alpine RoadBayern450 kmopen

Harz High RoadNiedersachsen / Sachsen-Anhalt40 kmopen

High Rhön RoadBayern / Hessen35 kmopen

Hunsrück High RoadRheinland-Pfalz157 kmopen

Kesselberg RoadBayern6 kmopen

Kirnitzsch Valley RoadSachsen20 kmopen

Moselle Wine RoadRheinland-Pfalz90 kmopen

Nibelungen RoadHessen / Bayern60 kmopen

Nürburgring NordschleifeRheinland-Pfalz20.8 kmopen

Oberjoch PassBayern6 kmopen

Riedberg PassBayern12 kmopen

Rossfeld Panorama RoadBayern15.4 kmopen

Sauerland Kahler Asten LoopNordrhein-Westfalen40 kmopen

Sudelfeld and TatzelwurmBayern25 kmopen

Swabian Alb EscarpmentBaden-Württemberg70 kmopen

Torfhaus RoadNiedersachsen25 kmopen

Vogelsberg Hoherodskopf LoopHessen35 kmopen

Austria 23

BödeleVorarlberg18 kmopen

FaschinajochVorarlberg12 kmopen

Felbertauern RoadTirol / Salzburg34 kmopen

FurkajochVorarlberg25 kmopen

Gerlos Alpine RoadSalzburg / Tirol12 kmopen

Grossglockner High Alpine RoadSalzburg / Kärnten48 kmopen

HahntennjochTirol29 kmopen

Hochtannberg PassVorarlberg / Tirol12 kmopen

Katschberg and Radstädter TauernSalzburg / Kärnten45 kmopen

Kaunertal Glacier RoadTirol26 kmopen

Kitzbüheler Horn Panorama RoadTirol8 kmopen

Malta High Alpine RoadKärnten14.4 kmopen

Nockalm RoadKärnten35 kmopen

Plöcken PassKärnten15 kmopen

Postalm Panorama RoadSalzburg25 kmopen

Silvretta High Alpine RoadVorarlberg / Tirol22.3 kmshut, printed anyway

Sölk PassSteiermark33 kmopen

Timmelsjoch High Alpine RoadTirol / Alto Adige47 kmopen

Turracher HöheKärnten / Steiermark25 kmopen

Villach Alpine RoadKärnten16.5 kmopen

Wachau Danube RoadNiederösterreich40 kmopen

Wurzen PassKärnten10 kmopen

Zillertal High RoadTirol48 kmopen

Questions

Which cities is it close to?

Measured in a straight line to the nearest point of each road: Innsbruck has 21 of the roads inside 150 km, Salzburg 19, Munich 16, Zurich 11, Frankfurt 8, Cologne 5, Stuttgart 4. Hamburg, Berlin and Amsterdam have none inside 150 km.

Why does one road ship no GPX track?

The Silvretta is shut until 2030 at the earliest. A track that ends at a barrier is worse than no track, so the page carries none and no route link either, and says so.

Is it the same book as the Spain and Portugal one?

The same two files and the same page. The third cell of the stat strip differs: here it prints the toll, because in the Alps a toll is what stands between you and the road; there it prints the access rule, because there it almost never is.

Will it be out of date next season?

Tolls and gate dates are checked for 2026 and the source is printed beside each one. The roads, the routes and the GPX tracks do not expire. Corrections go into the next edition.

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