The fascinating Sölktäler are located in the Austrian Lower Tauern of Upper Styria. The name Sölk was first mentioned in a document in 1080, is of Slavic origin and means "flowing water". Everywhere waterfalls flow over steep rock walls which, when arriving at the bottom, form rushing torrents.

Between Breitlahn-Hut and Harmer-Alp is a Block Moorland, a rocky section on which mosses and ferns grow. Here nature remains untouched by human intervention.

The Schwarzen Lake is the largest lake of the Lower Tauern, located at more than a thousand metres above sea level and forms the valley head in the Kleinsölker Upper Valley. Forested steep slopes rise imposingly to the mountain peaks, and dark forests and white clouds are reflected in the lake, an almost surreal picture of a landscape that has remained unchanged since time immemorial.

Suddenly the Dürrmoos Waterfall appears on a forested rock face. Wild and uninhibited, its water masses crash down. From top to bottom, rock steps repeatedly break its elemental power, and one could almost imagine that Man has helped to shape its form.

Considering this unspoilt natural landscape it is understandable that the Sölktäler Nature Park has a share in the Natura 2000 area of the "Lower Tauern", the "Enns Valley" and the "Schladminger Tauern".

The Sölk Valleys are characterized by the "Wild Lower Tauern", rugged mountains up to three thousand metres above sea level. These are natural beauties and places of power that have developed through the centuries of interaction between Nature and Man. A deservedly protected landscape, one of the last paradises on Earth.