Wimbach Gorge: a short walk with one clear rule
Four euros, one ticket machine, one direction.
At the mouth of the high valley between the Watzmann and the Hochkalter lies a narrow gorge, with about 200 m of bridges and boardwalks running through it. In the upper Wimbach valley, the Wimbachgries, the water flows underground. Here it surfaces with a roar and plunges in steep waterfalls into the rocky gorge.
Three things are fixed for your visit. Entry costs €4 from age 7. Tickets are sold only from a machine: the Bergerlebnis Berchtesgaden page names the machine at Wimbachs Wollstadl by the gorge entrance, and elsewhere a machine at Wimbachlehen, about 300 m before it.
And you can only enter from the gorge entrance. Coming back from Wimbachschloss, you cannot walk through the gorge again; a path above it takes you round. If you go further up the valley, plan a different way back.
The gorge on its own is a short walk, not a day out. For more, add Wimbachschloss, a former Wittelsbach hunting lodge that is now a mountain inn in the national park, or continue to the Wimbachgrieshütte in the upper valley.
Bergerlebnis Berchtesgaden: Wimbach Gorge, Ramsau ↗
In numbers
- Entry from age 7
- €4.00
- 2026 season
- 30 April to 31 October
- Boardwalk length
- about 200 m
- Hike through the gorge
- 2:00 h, 8.5 km (5.3 mi), 312 m (1,024 ft) ascent
- To the Wimbachgrieshütte
- 5:30 h, 17.0 km (10.6 mi), 699 m (2,293 ft) ascent
- Bus
- Line 846
- Wimbachbrücke information point
- Free entry
- Address
- Wimbachklamm 24, 83486 Ramsau
