Driving to Ischgl: the vignette, the Arlberg toll and the closed Silvretta road

ASFINAG names six section-toll stretches and the S16 Arlberg Schnellstraße is one of them. The charge covers the Arlberg Tunnel between the St. Anton am Arlberg and Langen am Arlberg junctions, and nothing on either side of those two.

The tunnel therefore lies west of St. Anton, and a car driving up the Inn valley turns off for the Paznaun before it gets there: that approach pays the vignette and no more. A car coming the other way, from Bregenz and the A14 through Vorarlberg, goes through the tunnel and pays the section toll for it. Same village, same week, two different totals, settled by where you crossed into Austria.

Ischgl's arrival page confirms a digital toll sticker for Austria's motorways and expressways, and separately points at ASFINAG for what it calls vignette and route tolls, naming the Brenner motorway and the Arlberg tunnel as its examples. It gives no road numbers for the drive up the valley itself.

Those are two products, bought in two places. The Austrian vignette options cover the general network and are registered against your plate; a section toll is bought for the specific stretch it applies to, and only if you actually drive it.

The Silvretta-Hochalpenstraße is a private toll road over the Bielerhöhe at 2,032 m, linking Galtür at the head of the Paznaun with Partenen in the Montafon. Its toll is levied by Illwerke, a Vorarlberg energy utility, so no ASFINAG product covers it and no vignette has any bearing on it.

It is closed to public traffic on the Vorarlberg side, between Partenen and the Bielerhöhe, after rockfall and mudslide damage in summer 2024 and a further incident in July 2025. Reopening is not expected before summer 2030. From the Tyrolean side the road stays passable free of charge as far as the closure point and no further, so there is no through route to the Montafon on it this decade, in any season.

Ischgl's arrival and parking pages describe no village-wide car ban and no pedestrian-only zone: the control they set out is the paid car park and garage system. Silvretta Parking West, Silvretta Parking East and Florian Parking are the outdoor sites, with the Silvretta Garage, the Parking Lounge at the Silvretta Therme and the Florian Garage underground.

Underground clearance is 2.2 m, so a roof box or a high van does not fit and belongs outdoors. Ischgl also states that stopping and parking outside the posted hours is strictly prohibited, and the posted hours are on the sign at the entrance to each site.