Kletterwald Graz – new in the directory

Last night a short message arrived through our report form: Kletterwald Graz was missing from the directory. Along with two words of review — "great ropes course" — and nothing else.

The report was justified. We list thirteen sites in Styria, from Gröbming to Riegersburg, and the one inside the city of Graz was precisely the one missing. As of today it is in: Kletterwald Graz.

What makes the site stand out

It sits in the middle of the city. The Leechwald by the Hilmteich belongs to Graz itself and is reachable by public transport. Among the 194 sites in this directory that is the exception — most assume you have a car, and in Styria the remaining parks lie in the mountains or out east.

13 courses with over 100 exercises are spread across more than a kilometre of route. The zipline course alone has ten ziplines, the longest measuring 50 metres.

The High Jump goes from 20 metres into thin air. A controlled jump from that height is rare; by comparison, many German sites top out at twelve to 15 metres overall.

You pay for the courses you are cleared for, not for time. Six price tiers from 14.50 € for the two KIDS courses to 35.50 € for all eleven courses including the High Jump. Come with a four-year-old and you do not pay for routes they are not allowed on — a model we have so far found only in Speyer and Leipzig.

Climbing is possible from four, the FAMILY courses are added from 110 cm, and the high ropes area from 140 cm. For the smallest there is a balance course, a forest marble run and a sandpit.

Why gaps like this occur

The directory grows from three sources: from OpenStreetMap, from our own research on operators' websites and — recently — from reports like this one.

OpenStreetMap is good but not complete. We start every region with a query for names like "Kletterwald", "Hochseilgarten" or "Waldseilpark". If a site is not entered there, or entered under a different name, it does not appear in our list. That is exactly what happened here.

A search finds what it knows. In North Rhine-Westphalia our query returned 189 candidates — including dozens of hits on "Street" and "Tree", meaning street food shops and software companies, while individual genuine sites were missing. Patterns like that can be improved but never fully closed.

That is why the report form is not decoration. It is the only source that comes from people who actually know a site. If something is missing or a detail is wrong — prices change every season — let us know: Report a climbing park.

What we do with a report

So that it is clear what happens when you write to us:

1. We check whether the site is already listed — sometimes it is in the directory under a different name.
2. We research on the operator's own website, not on portals. Prices, age limits, minimum heights and opening hours are taken from there alone. If an operator publishes no prices, the entry carries none — better a gap than a figure at second hand.
3. We write the text ourselves, in all three languages of the directory, highlighting what sets the site apart.
4. The entry goes live, usually the same day.

For Kletterwald Graz that took a few hours. Thanks for the tip.

Details on Kletterwald Graz from the operator's website, checked in August 2026.