Nobody hands guests an official list of where to stop for photos. This is the unofficial one anyway — compiled from where drivers on this route actually pull over, every time, without being told to.
1. Reschensee’s sunken bell tower
A 14th-century bell tower rising straight out of a lake, the only visible remnant of a village submerged when the valley was flooded in 1950. Covered in full in the Timmelsjoch piece — it’s the coffee stop most guests remember longest, not because of the coffee.
2. The Pasterze glacier
Austria’s largest glacier, visible from viewpoints along the Grossglockner High Alpine Road well before the summit — the moment most guests first grasp how much altitude the day’s climb actually involves. Covered in the Grossglockner day piece.
3. The Timmelsjoch summit
The Timmelsjoch Experience museum marks the crossing at over 2,500 meters, and it’s less a museum stop than a viewpoint that happens to have a building attached — a former smugglers’ route turned into a genuine destination in its own right.
4. Stelvio Pass’s hairpins
48 numbered hairpins climbing to 2,758 meters, and the specific viewpoint near the top where the switchbacks stack up below you in a single frame is one of the most photographed mountain-road views anywhere. Read the full Stelvio road test.
5. The Edelweißspitze
The highest point reachable by public road on the Grossglockner High Alpine Road, at 2,571 meters — a short detour off the main climb that most guests only find out about from a guide, since it’s easy to miss without knowing to look for it.
All five sit along Pure Adrenalin’s Porsche Europe Road Trip or the roads covered in this series’ road tests. See the complete route.