Driving to Schladming: the vignette, the Tauern and Bosruck tolls and the Dachstein road
Do I need to pay a tunnel toll to drive to Schladming?
Not from Salzburg. That route leaves the A10 at the Ennstal junction, which comes before Flachau, where ASFINAG's Tauern section toll begins, so it needs the vignette and nothing more. The two other approaches Schladming-Dachstein publishes do meet a toll: the A9 from Passau and Linz runs through the Bosruck tunnel before Liezen, and the A10 from the south runs through the Katschberg and Tauern tunnels.
From Munich and Salzburg, the vignette and nothing else
The first route Schladming-Dachstein publishes runs from Munich through Salzburg, down the A10 Tauern Motorway and onto the B320 Ennstal road. The Dachstein glacier operator describes the same drive: the A10 to the Ennstal junction, then around 30 km on the B320.
The Ennstal junction is at Altenmarkt, north of the Flachau junction. ASFINAG places the Tauern and Katschberg section toll between the Flachau and Rennweg junctions, so this approach turns off before it starts.
What it does need is the vignette, from the point where the A10 leaves the A1 at Salzburg to the Ennstal junction. A 10-day Austrian vignette started on the day you drive out covers the return as well inside a normal week.
From Passau and Linz, the Bosruck tunnel
The resort's second western route runs from Passau on the A9 Pyhrn Motorway by way of Linz to the Selzthal junction and the B320, and it tells travellers from Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark north of Nuremberg to consider it. A driver from Czechia or Poland who reaches Linz joins the same A9.
That route pays the Bosruck section toll. ASFINAG puts it between the Spital am Pyhrn and Ardning junctions, both north of Liezen, so every car heading south on the A9 to the Ennstal passes through it, and pays again on the way back.
Buy the Bosruck ticket in advance if you take this way. ASFINAG keeps a green prepaid lane at the Bosruck toll station for drivers with a digital section toll, which lets you through without stopping.
From the south a toll applies, from Vienna it does not
From Carinthia, Slovenia or Italy, the resort's southern route comes north on the A10 to the Ennstal junction. That crosses the whole of the Tauern and Katschberg section toll between Rennweg and Flachau, charged at the route on top of the vignette.
From Vienna the route runs over the S6 Semmering expressway to the St. Michael junction and north on the A9 to Liezen. ASFINAG's Gleinalm toll lies south of St. Michael and its Bosruck toll north of Liezen, so this approach passes neither and needs the vignette alone.
Check the Austrian vignette options against the way you will actually arrive: two drivers going to the same village can owe a different mix of charges.
The Dachstein glacier road is a private toll road
The road up from Ramsau am Dachstein to the glacier cable car is the Dachsteinstraรe, a toll road on private land. Its operator says cable car passengers use it free of charge, but only after validating the toll ticket in the machine at the Dachstein mountain station.
The car park at the valley station is small, and on busy days a replacement car park at the toll station feeds it with shuttle buses. The operator recommends the Dachstein glacier bus from Planet Planai in Schladming instead, and says parking at the Planai is free.
If you do drive up, keep the toll ticket and validate it before you come down, or you pay for a road you were entitled to use free.