KAT100 by UTMB: Hotels & Travel Tips

Family-run hotel in a traffic-calmed spot in the heart of Fieberbrunn — shops, cafés and the race event hall are all outside the door. Walking distance to the start line and drop-bag drop-off, which matters enormously when your race starts at 18:00 and you want to spend the day horizontal.

Central Fieberbrunn base camp with a strong breakfast and regional cooking in the evenings. Positioned so you can walk to registration, the start arch and the finish-line party without touching the car. Books out early for race week — the village is small and the event brings 1,500 runners.

Modern aparthotel suites just south of the village centre — clean architecture, kitchenettes and space to spread out race kit. The self-catering setup is the practical pick for the evening-start races: cook your own race-day lunch instead of hunting for a restaurant that serves pasta at noon.

Fieberbrunn is a village, not a resort town, and KAT100 sold out its 2026 flagship races — beds go fast. If the village is full, look at St. Ulrich am Pillersee and Hochfilzen (same valley, minutes away) or St. Johann in Tirol (bigger town, 15 minutes by car or train toward Kitzbühel). Being near the event hall beats a nicer room further away: everything race-related happens there.

Fieberbrunn sits on the Salzburg–Tirol railway line with regular regional trains — no car needed. From Salzburg or Innsbruck it is a straightforward regional connection; Munich works too via Wörgl or Salzburg. Salzburg and Innsbruck are the closest airports, both around 1.5 hours away by rail.

The Endurance Trail starts in Kitzbühel at 23:59 and finishes back in Fieberbrunn, and the logistics solve themselves by rail: trains run between Fieberbrunn and Kitzbühel roughly every 30 minutes (about a 15-minute ride) until around 01:00. Sleep in Fieberbrunn, train to the start late evening, run home over the Hahnenkamm. No car shuttle, no second driver. Source: kat.utmb.world

The 10-seater Streuböden gondola glides up toward Lärchfilzkogel (1,645m) with panoramic cabins — big Kitzbühel Alps views for zero leg cost. The mid-station is Timok's Wild World: alpine coaster, ropes course and water play, which sorts out any children in your crew for an entire afternoon while you taper horizontally.

The giant Jacob's Cross on the Buchensteinwand summit has viewing platforms facing every compass direction — and a lift goes most of the way up, so it costs your taper nothing. The 100-mile course passes it glowing in the dark; seeing it in daylight beforehand is both good recon and the best easy panorama in the valley.

The Lauchsee is a warm moor lake a flat stroll from the village — the ideal pre-race afternoon (float, sun, elevate the legs) and an even better post-race soak for battered quads. Save the Wildseeloder lake hike and anything with real vert for after the finish line; the race will give you all the climbing you can hold.