September
The rutting stags call across from the forest, and the Almabtrieb moves through the villages with brass music and traditional dress. In the moss between the spruces stand the first porcini — if you know where to look.
Rent a cabin in the Karwendel · Autumn 2026
Rent a cabin in the Karwendel | A mountain autumn in Tyrol
Between the Inn Valley and the grey walls of the Karwendel lie our five places in the Silberregion: two cabins, a chalet, a holiday house & a holiday apartment. Autumn is the finest season up here. In September you hear the stags calling in the evening, in October the larches turn gold up the hillsides, in November the fog sits in the valley while the sun warms your face on the mountain. From two nights you get 12 % off — and the SILBERCARD plus comes with it. Book now.
01 · The offer
The autumn bonus in the Silberregion Karwendel
From 5 September you get 12 % off the regular seasonal rate, from two nights booked. The discount is already deducted when you book, so you see straight away what your stay costs.
The two nights matter more to us than the percentage. Up here the picture changes every week in autumn, and if you are not tied to a Saturday changeover you can come exactly when the cattle drive passes through the village, when the larches turn, or when the first snow settles on the terrace.
Which days are possible at which property is shown in that property's availability calendar. Arrival days are not the same everywhere — have a look there before you settle on a date.
02 · The clincher
The SILBERCARD plus comes with your stay from two nights
This is the real news this autumn. The guest card of the Silberregion Karwendel used to start at five nights — now you get it from two. For a long autumn weekend from Friday to Sunday that means the full programme on a short stay.
Regional buses are free. In autumn that is the most practical part: you leave the car where it is, take the bus to the start of your walk and come back in the evening from somewhere else entirely.
Museums, the silver mine & local sights are free or discounted. When it rains, that fills a whole day in and around Schwaz that you would otherwise spend sitting in the cabin.
The tourist board's weekly programme is open to you — guided walks, themed tours, culture. What is running depends on the week you are here.
The card applies to our five places in the Silberregion Karwendel: Alpenrehblick, Grafenhäusl, Tiroler Hütte, Waldhüttl and Sternenhimmel. You do not need to ask your host about it — we register your stay with the tourist board, and the card is ready when you arrive.
03 · The calendar
The seasonal calendar: pick the moment, not the week
Most portals ask you for a date first. We turn that around. In our seasonal calendar you set your month of arrival and see what is happening around the cabin in exactly that month — what is ripening in the woods, what comes to the table, what you can do outside and what the villages are celebrating.
The calendar is built to be used: you filter by month and by the four areas Waldgold, Kulinarik, Freizeit and Erlebnisse — forest harvest, food, outdoors and events — and every card opens with a click when you want to know more. Two minutes and you know whether your October weekend falls into the porcini, the cattle drive or the first snow.
Once you have found your month, check the property's availability calendar for the arrival days it allows. Not every day works at every house, which is why it is listed separately for each one.
04 · Month by month
Autumn in the Karwendel, from September into Advent
October
The golden month. Slope by slope the larches turn, the game season starts in the inns, and the smell of roasted chestnuts drifts through the villages. Harvest festival decorates the churches, and Törggelen begins in the taverns.
November
The quietest month of the year. The fog stands in the Inn Valley below while you sit in the sun at the cabin. Towards the end of the month the first Advent markets open.
December
Advent the way it used to be: the first snow outside, the warm parlour and candlelight inside. And three markets down in the valley that are worth the walk.
The Schwaz Advent stands on Pfundsplatz in the middle of the old town, with a daily programme up to 24 December: crafting for children, a nativity scene with live animals, carriage rides, choirs and brass bands from the area.
The smallest Christkindlmarkt in Tyrol stands in Pill — four stalls, on four Advent weekends, each in the afternoon. With Zillertal pastries, barley soup, mulled wine and mead. Just right for an afternoon between two days at the cabin.
Törggelen — the Tyrolean autumn ritual of young wine, roasted chestnuts, bacon, smoked sausage, doughnuts and sauerkraut — is served in almost every tavern around here, from the end of the grape harvest until November at the latest. Most places open only in the late afternoon, which makes it the evening you stay put after a day on the mountain.
The market at St. Georgenberg near Stans sits by the pilgrimage church above the Wolfsklamm gorge. Small, quiet, and the walk up is part of the visit.
05 · The houses
Cabin, holiday house & holiday apartment in the Karwendel
Five places between Terfens, Vomp and the Kolsassberg, from the little hut for two to the house for ten. We have looked at each one ourselves. We do not sleep in the cabins — we stand in front of them, walk through, and then it fits or it does not. What each property actually is, we write down. The SILBERCARD plus applies to these five.
Tiroler Hütte
A hot tub stands on the covered terrace, and that is exactly what makes this chalet in autumn: you sit outside in the warm while the rain drums on the roof above you.
Waldhüttl
At the edge of the forest, almost on its own, stands the small Waldhüttl with a wood stove in the parlour. For two who want their peace for the whole stay.
Alpenrehblick
Above Vomp, looking into the Karwendel valleys, stands the Alpenrehblick: six rooms across 120 m² and a sauna of its own. After a long autumn walk that is exactly right.
Sternenhimmel
On the sunny side of the valley, up in the Tux Alps, the Sternenhimmel apartment faces the Karwendel head on. From the balcony you see the whole massif, and above the gallery a starry sky lights up at night.
Grafenhäusl
Right at the nature park stands the Grafenhäusl with eight rooms. The house for the big group — family, friends, and in the evening everyone at one table.
06 · Just next door
Holiday apartments & a mountain cabin in Gnadenwald, Fritzens and on the Wattenberg
On the other side of the Inn Valley, a few kilometres further west, lies Gnadenwald — a narrow sun terrace beneath the walls of the Karwendel, looking out over the whole valley. We have three holiday apartments there. A fourth sits down in the valley in Fritzens, and a small mountain cabin stands on the Wattenberg opposite.
The autumn bonus of 12 % from two nights applies to these five as well. The SILBERCARD plus belongs to the Silberregion Karwendel and is not included here — but you are ten minutes from Hall in Tirol with its old town and the mint, and under half an hour from Innsbruck.
Waldsicht · apartment · 3 people · 50 m² Pferdeheimat · apartment · 3 people · 50 m² Alpenfamilienglück · apartment · 5 people · 100 m² Sonnseitn Karwendel · apartment · Fritzens · 1–3 people · 580 m Kochhäusl · mountain cabin · 3 people · 40 m²
The Sonnseitn Karwendel in Fritzens is the most traditional of the five: a real tiled stove in the parlour and a wide panoramic terrace with a grill. Dogs, however, cannot come along there.
07 · The choice
Cabin, holiday house or holiday apartment?
With every property we write down what it actually is. In autumn the difference matters more than in summer, because you spend more time indoors again.
The cabin is small, has a wood stove and usually one single room where everything happens. The Waldhüttl at the forest edge has 20 m², the Tiroler Hütte chalet 30 m² and a touch more comfort. For two, either is exactly right in October; for four it gets tight.
The holiday house is a house of its own: several rooms, its own roof, nobody behind the wall. The Alpenrehblick above Vomp has six rooms across 120 m², space for seven people and a sauna. We list the Grafenhäusl at the nature park as a mountain cabin, but with eight rooms and ten beds it is the house for the big group.
The holiday apartment is a self-contained flat within a house, and in return the host and the village are usually a little closer. The Sternenhimmel at Kolsassberg has 35 m² on two levels and looks out over the Karwendel from its balcony; the four apartments in Gnadenwald and Fritzens take one to five people.
08 · Getting here
To the Karwendel by train
Along the valley floor, between Innsbruck and Kufstein, the Unterinntal railway runs straight through the Silberregion Karwendel. Jenbach and Schwaz are on the main line, and the S-Bahn Tirol runs through the valley at a close interval. From the station to your accommodation you take the local bus or a taxi, and the same on the way back.
With the SILBERCARD plus the regional bus routes are free. That pays off especially in autumn: you start your walk where the bus drops you and get on again somewhere else in the afternoon, instead of walking back to the car.
If you come by car, you park right at the property. How to travel here sustainably.
09 · With a dog
A cabin holiday with your dog — autumn is the best time
Your dog is welcome at most of our properties — in the cabin just as much as in the holiday house or the apartment. For him, autumn up here is the best time of the year, and during the Tyrolean autumn half-term from 27 to 31 October 2026 all the more so.
Pleasantly cool. The air is clear, the ground is firm, the paths lie in shade. You can be outside all day, uphill as well, and over midday too.
Quiet paths. After the summer holidays the trails go still, and you can let the lead run loose more often.
The cattle are back in the valley. After the Almabtrieb there are no more mother cows grazing on the alpine pastures. That takes the trickiest situation for dog owners out of the autumn altogether.
10 · Behind it
The Almabtrieb: why there is so much going on up here
The Almabtrieb is the end of a working year. All summer the cattle were up on the alpine pasture; now they come back down to the valley — and they are decorated only if every animal has come through the summer unharmed. Once you know that, you watch it differently.
We write about this from our own experience. The family's alpine pasture has been worked since 1976, the farm is still running, and letting the properties is the second income that keeps it going.
11 · Food
A taste of the region
At selected properties you can add to your stay what is actually made up here — and you get the name of the farm it comes from.
In the basket there is cheese from silage-free hay milk, ripened on the alpine pasture over the summer. Alpine cheese counts legally as a primary product, so the farmer may sell it to you directly. Alongside it, honey, bacon & schnapps from farms in the neighbourhood.
Best of all, though, is going yourself. Almkäse Klingler runs a self-service shop by the Maria Larch chapel — you take what you need and leave the money in the box. The Schwaz farmers' market is on Saturdays and the dairy has fixed opening hours. All of it is in your arrival information. Why this matters to us.
Not sure when?
Set your month in the seasonal calendar and see what waits for you — and if you still cannot decide, just write to us. Tell us what you would like to see, the cattle drive, the golden forest or the first snow, and we will tell you which week fits and which cabin, which holiday house and which apartment is still free. We know all of them ourselves. We wish you a fine time renting a cabin in the Karwendel.
Autumn 2026 only · 9 to 11 October
Mozart’s Requiem, danced
For three evenings the choreographer Enrique Gasa Valga brings his dance production MOZARTS REQUIEM to the SZentrum in Schwaz – twenty minutes by car from our huts, and right in the loveliest week of October. As our guest you get 20 % off every category: € 51.20 instead of 64, € 46.40 instead of 58, € 36.80 instead of 46. Discount code when ordering online: welcome20. For 10 people or more, book directly via tickets@limonada.at.
And the SILBERCARD plus comes with your very first night. Normally it takes five nights to qualify. For our guests in the Silberregion Karwendel it applies from the first night this autumn – so it also covers the two nights you book for the Almabtrieb. We register your booking with the tourist board; you do not have to do a thing.