Cross-country-trail Quality Seal Austria

Austria does not only offer its guests perfect Alpine ski areas, but also magnificent cross-country networks with well-prepared and sign-posted trails.

Resorts or even regions, which guarantee high quality standards and which are known to belong to the best cross-country areas in the country, can apply for a Cross-country-trail Quality Seal.

Besides an overall Quality Seal for Cross-country networks, which includes criteria such as at least a 30 km large network with at least 80 days of snow coverage, permanent maintenance and sign-posting with the km markings, there are also three further Quality Seals, where the criteria differ marginally from those of the main seal.

The three federal states Tyrol, Styria and Carinthia have each established a state-own seal, with own criteria and which is awarded by the state itself.

Only those networks than can fulfil all criteria, can be awarded the respective Quality Seal for 3 years, in Carinthia even for 5 years running.