The town is served by Federal Highway 2 as a continuation of the A95 Autobahn (motorway), which ends at Eschenlohe 16 km north of the city.
Garmisch-Partenkirchen station is on the Munich�Garmisch-Partenkirchen line and the Mittenwald Railway (Garmisch�Mittenwald�Innsbruck). It is the terminus of the Au�erfern Railway to Reutte in Tirol / Kempten im Allg�u and the Bavarian Zugspitze Railway (with sections of rack railway) to the Zugspitze, the highest mountain in Germany. Regional services run every hour to M�nchen Hauptbahnhof and Mittenwald and every two hours to Innsbruck Hauptbahnhof and Reutte. In addition there are special seasonal long-distance services, including ICEs, to Berlin, Hamburg, Dortmund, Bremen and Innsbruck.
Several accessible hiking trails from the town are especially spectacular and cover both the lower and higher elevations
