Cable car · Mayrhofen, Austria
Ahornbahn
Ahornbahn is a cable car near Mayrhofen, Austria. It climbs 1,297 m over 2.75 km, from 669 m to 1,966 m above sea level. Between its 2 pylons, the cable runs up to about 225 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
97/100 · Very scary
By the numbers, Ahornbahn is scarier than 97% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 11 of 408 in Austria.
- Highest above the ground: about 225 m, higher than the Great Pyramid of Giza (139 m), 2.08 km after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 1.51 km.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 26°.
- More than 50 m above the ground for 2.27 km of the 2.75 km ride.
Where does it start?
The bottom station of Ahornbahn is near Mayrhofen, Austria, at 669 m above sea level (47.16035° N, 11.85973° E). From there it runs 2.75 km up to the top station at 1,966 m.
Directions to the bottom station ↗ Bottom station on OpenStreetMap ↗
- Capacity
- 1,200 people per hour
- Per cabin
- 160 people
Nearby lines
- Penkenbahn gondola · 2.9 km away · rises 1,140 m
- Finkenberger Almbahn I gondola · 4.1 km away · rises 886 m
- Horbergbahn gondola · 4.9 km away · rises 1,029 m
- Finkenberger Almbahn II gondola · 5.0 km away · rises 331 m
- Möslbahn II gondola · 6.8 km away · rises 504 m
- 150er Tux cable car · 7.2 km away · rises 709 m
Pylon heights are estimated (30 m), so the height above ground is approximate. Terrain: Copernicus GLO-30, 30 m. Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. Data as of 2026-10-31.