Autumn is the best season for hiking. The Smiley Hotel is located at the point where fantastic hiking areas in the Carinthian mountains meet and offers various levels of difficulty, from easy routes for families with small children to more demanding hikes.

We are located in the heart of these well-known hiking areas:

• Nature experiences in the Nock mountain region along the Nockalmstraße excursion road, from which you can hike easily to the surrounding mountain peaks.
• Gerlitzen Alpe with its year-round cable car service, so that even the youngest can reach the mountain tops.
• Dobratsch Nature Park, offering the most beautiful views of all Carinthia.
• Hohe Tauern National Park with its glacier-covered peaks.

For more hiking info visit https://www.kaernten.at/wandern/ 

From spring to late autumn you can enjoy the following activities:

Other sports activities are:

• high rope course Katschberg / Innerkrems
• canyoning
• fishing in the castle pond and in Lake Millstatt
• geocaching and mountain hiking with mountain guide

As the Smiley Hotel is also located where the Lieser and Maltatal regions meet, you can make excursions to the national parks from here. The excursion destinations are:

Malta Hochalmstrasse – Kölnbreinsperre, Nockalmstraße excursion road in the Nockberge mountains with the Nockalm Biosphere Park, the Hohe Tauern National Park with the Grossglockner and Grossglockner High Alpine Road, the Fairytale Hiking Mile, medieval town of Gmünd, home to many artists.

The Malta Valley with its Gößfälle waterfalls, water play park, Malta Valley cycle path, Malteiner Wasserspiele (water features), treasure hunt in the Innerkrems, Stubeck family mountain pasture and the Malta Valley donkey farm.

Car fans will be in their element at the Porsche Automobile Museum in Gmünd. And the Pankratium fully lives up to its name “House of Amazement”. In the Pankratium, children and adults alike embark on a journey of sensory, visual and acoustic perception, as you and your family hear, see and feel in the world’s largest walk-in violin, the wistful drum, water trumpets and other sound machines and sculptures.