GRIESALP SWITZERLAND POST BUS ROUTE GRADIENTS UP TO 28%

From the Griesalp, enjoy a leisurely hike through the beautiful natural landscape and learn lots of interesting things along the way on the alpine farming and nature educational trail, the legendary Kiental Sagenweg and the wildwater trail.

Post bus route to Griesalp – the small post buses overcome hairpin bends and gradients of up to 28%.

Griesalp can be reached by a post bus route offering spectacular scenery against the backdrop of the Blüemlisalp massif. Griesalp is an ideal starting point for many hikes. Griesalp is situated in this natural paradise of clear mountain streams and waterfalls, flower-dotted meadows, shady mountain forests and snow-capped peaks. The postbus route with the steepest gradient in Europe takes 45 minutes to reach Griesalp from its starting point at Reichenbach in Kandertal at the entrance to the Kiental, via Kiental village. A gradient of up to 28% is overcome on the stretch through the Pochten Gorge. The landscape gradually changes from gently undulating to high Alpine.
There are several mountain inns and hotels at Griesalp.
The Alpine farming and nature theme path (with Alpine dairy and cheese-making) in the Griesalp, Bundalp and Steinenberg area is ideal for half or whole day excursions to explore flora, fauna, geology, mountain forestry and farming and cheese-making.
In winter, Griesalp is accessible on foot from Tschingel. After refreshments at one of the inns an even more refreshing sledge ride back down to the valley beckons.