Your stress-free guide to one of Austria’s best first hut to hut hikes for families — with all the planning sorted for just £12

A brilliant first hut to hut hike with kids

Want to try hut hiking as a family without jumping straight into super long days or technical and exposed trails?

This guide gives you a tried and tested 3 day, 2 night family route on the Millstätter Höhensteig in Austria, with manageable hiking days, lovely mountain scenery and two huts that are genuinely fun for children.

You’ll get the route, huts, transport, packing, maps and practical family details all in one place.

Honestly we used your guide like a bible. Thanks for giving us the confidence to try this sort of holiday – we loved it! – Sarah ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

The level of detail in your guide is amazing! I have managed to book all of the huts on the mountain – they were super easy to book 🙂 

The packing lists are so useful as well as this really is something that makes me dread holidays. I always struggle to know what to pack when I have never been somewhere – and never really do those kind of activities… I am also neurodiverse so that kind of thinking is not my speciality…so really thank you. – Polly ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

A proper mountain adventure, without making it harder than it needs to be

The Millstätter Höhensteig is a great introduction to hut hiking with kids.

The trails are well signed, the terrain is mostly straightforward and there’s plenty of flexibility built into the route if you want to make a day shorter or skip an optional summit.

And the huts are a huge part of the fun.

These mountain refuges have animals, play areas, sandpits, ride-on toys and even a mud kitchen; so arriving at the hut feels like part of the adventure rather than simply the end of the walk.

There are also wide grassy ridges, mountain views, garnet hunting and plenty of places to stop along the way.

It still feels like a real Alpine adventure, just one that’s very achievable as a first hut to hut trip.

Everything you need in one guide

✔️ Complete 3 day, 2 night family itinerary
✔️ Step-by-step instructions for getting to Millstätter See and reaching the trailhead
✔️ Clear guidance on using public transport, so you can do the route without a car
✔️ Detailed information on both mountain huts, including rooms, meals, booking and what they’re like for families
✔️ Optional summit detours and route variations
✔️ An easy way to shorten Day 2 if smaller legs have had enough
✔️ Bail-out options if weather, timings or energy levels change
✔️ Food, water and packing advice
✔️ Custom maps, GPX files and navigation tips
✔️ Useful extras including garnet hunting along the trail

Rather than jumping between German hut websites, transport information, maps and route descriptions, I’ve pulled everything together in one place, including the family-specific details I wanted to know when planning our own hike.

Your first hut hike, already mapped out

There are a few things to work out before any hut to hut trip: where to stay, how to book the huts, how to reach the trail without a car, which route variation makes most sense and what the days will actually feel like with kids.

None of it is especially difficult, but having it all together makes planning much quicker.

This guide gives you the exact route we used, along with the practical details and backup options that make it easy to adapt the trip to your own family.

So you can spend less time researching and more time getting excited about your first night in the mountains.

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