# Gerlos Pass
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{{Short description|Mountain pass in the Austrian Alps}}
{{Infobox mountain pass
| name = Gerlos Pass
| photo = Gerlospass 2008c.jpg
| photo_caption =
| elevation_m = 1500
| elevation_ref =
| traversed = Federal Highway B 165
| map = Austria
| map_caption =
| map_size = 300px
| label = Gerlos Pass
| coords = {{coord|47|14|35|N|12|6|37|E|type:pass_region:AT|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
| location = [Austria](/source/Austria)
| range = [Alps](/source/Alps)
| topo =
}}
'''Gerlos Pass''' (elevation {{convert|1,500|m|0|disp=sqbr}}) is a [mountain pass](/source/mountain_pass) in the Austrian [Alps](/source/Alps) between the Oberpinzgau region in the state of [Salzburg](/source/Salzburg_(state)) and the [Zillertal](/source/Zillertal) valley in [Tyrol](/source/Tyrol_(state)). The old road leads from [Wald im Pinzgau](/source/Wald_im_Pinzgau) to Gerlos in the Zillertal valley. It is closed to trucking and not always open in winter. A new toll road that is open all year was built in the 1960s from [Krimml](/source/Krimml) to [Gerlos](/source/Gerlos).[{{cite web|title=Gerlospass |work=AEIOU |url=http://www.aeiou.at/aeiou.encyclop.g/g294344.htm;internal&action=_setlanguage.action?LANGUAGE=en |access-date=6 January 2013}}]
==History==
The first road across the Gerlos Pass was built in 1630. The Gerlosstraße road via Filzsteinalm pasture and the Gerlos plain was completed in 1962. The Durlaßboden reservoir and the Tauernkraftwerke power stations are situated on the western slope.