The area of the Tyrolean Oberland includes the western part of the state Tyrol with the exception of the Besides remote.
View from the Sellraintal (Lampsenspitze, 2875m) over the Inntal to the northern chain of the Alps with Mieminger, Karwendel and Wetterstein in the snow-poor winter 2006/2007
Regions
Mountain range
- Stubai Alps with the Stubai Valley and the Sellraintal
- The Arlberg area is the region on the Arlberg Pass in the very west of the Tyrolean Oberland, it is already partly in the Austrian state Vorarlberg.
Valleys
- The Upper Inn Valley: the river valley of the Inns from the state border to the Engadin (Finstermünzpass) to the confluence of the Melach near Kematen, just before Innsbruck.
- The Mieminger Plateau, a plateau north of the Oberinntal.
- The Ötztal is a southern side valley of the Inn Valley and separates the Stubai Alps from the Ötztal Alps.
- The Gurgltal is a northern side valley of the Inn Valley and with the Fernpass route an important traffic connection to the north.
- The Stanzer Tal is a western tributary valley of the Oberinntals, it separates the Lechtal Alps from the mountains of the Verwall and Samnaun, it leads the Arlbergbahn and Arlbergstraße to the Arlbergpass and to Vorarlberg.
- Paznauntal, Winter sports.
places
The most interesting places are:
- Zirl (622 m), market town and nativity scene;
- Imst, (827 m) district capital of the district of the same name and end point of the Fernpass route;
- Landeck (Tyrol) (816 m), the district capital of the district of the same name;
- Neustift in the Stubai Valley (994 m), winter sports and hiking;
- Scharnitz (964 m) vacation spot and access to the Karwendel valleys.
- Serfaus (1429 m), winter sports above the Upper Inn Valley.
- Telfs (633 m), market town at the foot of the Hohe Munde and third largest town in Tyrol;
- Vent (1890 m), mountain village at the end of the Vent Valley.
- Obergurgl (1,930 m), winter sports and summer retreat at the upper end of the Ötztal valley.
- Sankt Anton am Arlberg (1,304 m), the cradle of alpine skiing and the venue for the 2001 Alpine World Ski Championships
