Local Mobility

Ruhpolding is near major transit routes providing numerous opportunities for delightful day trips on your own or with any of our local coach operators.

With the  Card you can use village bus line as well many regional buses for free!

Ruhpolding Village Line

We are proud to offer our guests a very special service - the Ruhpolding Village Bus Line. These buses provide convenient transportation to all parts of the village and virtually all of the trailheads in the Ruhpolding Valley.

RVO

The RVO (Regional Bus Line) can also be used free of charge with the eXtra-Card. The RVO can take you to many attractive locations such as our neighbour resort towns Inzell and Reit im Winkl as well as Bad Reichenhall. In the summers, you can ride to Salzburg as well for a small additional fee.

Day trips and excursions

Popular excursion destinations include the Chiemsee (with its Herren- and Fraueninsel islands), Berchtesgaden with Lake Königssee and the salt mine, the Salzkammergut region with its famous lakes, the mighty Grossglockner, the Steinplatte, or Kaprun and the towering Kitzsteinhorn. Salzburg, the “City of Mozart”, is only 40 km away, beckoning visitors with the Haus der Natur, great shopping and exceptional theatre. Munich (120 km away) is home to the Deutsches Museum, the Pinakothek galleries and the Bavarian National Museum.

Railway

Since 1895, Ruhpolding has been connected to Traunstein and Europe’s broader rail network by a branch line. This line runs through Eisenärzt (with a footpath to Maria Eck) and Siegsdorf (which has a Mammoth Museum and a stone-age village), taking a winding route which hugs the banks of the Traun river in some parts. Today, BAYERN-TAKT’s modern electric trains run along this romantic track - every day, every hour - with good connections from Traunstein to Munich, Salzburg and Waging.