National trail

Via Alpina, 16 km section

Ref: 1

16
km distance
↑1188
m ascent
↓1105
m descent
3.8
hrs estimated
45
quality score

Snow

Today's satellite snow reading loads with the page. The reading this page was built with, from Apr 11, 2026, is too old to use.

The walk, as far as the open data goes

Getting there

  • Start: Obergstaad bus stop, 42 m away
  • Start: Parking Ober-Gstaad car park, 73 m away
  • Start: parking car park, 159 m away
  • Finish: Maison de l‘Etivaz bus stop, 97 m away
  • Finish: Les Vieux Bains bus stop, 486 m away

Height and time

  • High point 1,970 m
  • Low point 1,040 m
  • Climb 1,196 m from a 30 m terrain model, smoothed
  • Swiss signpost time 6 h 43 the official method, on our line

An official route

This walk is part of Via Alpina, SchweizMobil national route 1.

The official route page

Computed on 2026-09-20 from OpenStreetMap, the terrain model and the federal route layer — not read from the operator's own page, and not checked on the ground. Hikes we have reviewed say who published each fact and when.

Getting There

🅿️ Parking Ober-Gstaad — 1123 m from trailhead
🅿️ Navigate to parking in Google Maps

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Trail Details

Operator Wanderland Schweiz
Network National
Distance source Routed on OpenStreetMap
Routed distance 17.2 km
Routed ascent 1196 m
OSM relation #14249127

About this data

Trail geometry from OpenStreetMap. Snow read from Sentinel-2 satellite imagery, with missing observations kept unknown, on the date shown above. That date is when the snow was read, not a report of conditions today.

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