Services
With its comprehensive hiking-related services, the Destination Gstaad provides the perfect setting for a hiking adventure. The many Alpine restaurants, mountain inns, hotels and barbecue sites are inviting places to stop and relax. Along with maps to help you plan your tour, there is a range of public transport options available to take you to the starting point of your chosen route.
Gastronomy
No other resort in Switzerland offers so much culinary expertise in such a small area as Gstaad: 19 restaurants with a total of 278 Gault Millau points are merely the icing on the cake for anyone who enjoys fine dining. You can choose from a further 100 restaurants offering a wide and varied range of different cuisines. Directly on or off the hiking trails.
Transport
The mountain railways, hiking taxis, private bus companies and public transport options give you easy access to the trail network. Longer routes can be shortened if necessary.
Maps
- Interactive Map
- Panoramic Map
- Hiking map summer - Gstaad (scale 1:25'000, available online)
- Saanenland - Simmental (scale 1:50'00)
These and other Hiking maps are available at the tourist offices.
Accommodation
Adapted behavior in the mountains
The holiday region of Gstaad is pleased that so many guests and locals are actively moving in the mountains. It doesn't matter whether they explore the beautiful landscape on foot, on a bike or with an e-bike. In summer there are also over 10,000 cows, goats and sheep on 80 different alpine farms in the area. Mutual understanding between tourism and agriculture is needed for respectful coexistence on the mountains. Because hiking trails also lead across pastures with cows and bikers and hikers often use the same paths.
Thank you for observing our rules and for spending time in the mountains with respect.
Other rules of behaviour
Share the trail - respect each other!
In the Destination Gstaad, hikers, mountain bikers and other outdoor enthusiasts largely share the same trails. It is therefore important that people are tolerant and considerate towards others. Mountain bikers should slow down to walking pace when overtaking other people and must give way to hikers when their paths cross on narrow trails. Hikers must accept mountain bikers as equal trail users and should make way for them where this is possible and sensible.
Trail rules - Love your trails!
- Use trails at your own risk. Adjust your riding to suit the terrain and your skill level.
- Do not break if the wheels are locked!
- Stay on roads and trails. To cut across country is strictly prohibited.
- Show consideration when encountering and overtaking hikers and other trail users. Due consideration must also be given to animals and plants.
- Animals on the trail have the right of way. Animals should only be approached slowly.
- Gates and pasture fences must always be closed after riding through them.
- Waste must be disposed of properly.
- It is important to plan a bike ride well and to take suitable equipment with you.
- Save the emergency ambulance number 144 and the emergency police number 117 to your mobile phone.
No liability can be accepted for any accidents.
