Lechtaler Alpen

Lechtal Alps, about 60 km long, 20 km wide closed mountain range of the Northern Limestone Alps covering an area of 1,000 km² in Tirol and Vorarlberg; boundaries are the Lech valley in the north, the Stanzer Tal and Inn valleys in the south, the Fern pass in the east and Flexen pass in the west (the western part beginning at the Flexen pass, is completely situated in Vorarlberg and called Klostertal Alps or Lechquellen Mountains). Parseierspitze mountain (3,036 m), only mountain with an altitude over 3,000 m in the Northern Limestone Alps. Other peaks: Wetterspitze (2,895 m), Freispitze (2,884 m), Große Schlenkerspitze (2,827 m), Valluga 2,809 m (mountain on the boundary between Tirol and Vorarlberg), Muttekopf (2,774 m) and Heiterwand (2,638 m). The 3 highest pass roads of the entire Northern Limestone Alps, Hahntennjoch (1,894 m), Arlberg pass (1,793 m) and Flexen pass (1,773 m), cross the Lechtal Alps. Very attractive hiking area; famous skiing resort in the west (in the area of Arlberg and Flexen pass). Mountain refuges: Muttekopfhütte 1,934 m (oldest mountain refuge in the Lechtal Alps), Stuttgarter Hütte (2,305 m), Ansbacher Hütte (2,376 m), Memminger Hütte (2,242 m).