Technical details

Tour type

Hiking Trail

Starting point

Hergiswil or Alp Gschwänd

Point of arrival

Pilatus Kulm

Difficulty

Difficult

Condition

5 / 6

Ascent

1220 m

Descent

50 m

Best Time of Year

June, July, August, September, October

Directions

Behind the Restauant Alp Gschwänd the path climbs through the forest and then steadily uphill towards the chapel on the "Klimsensattel". The red large cabins float above us to the Pilatus Kulm. Next to the newly renovated chapel stood the elegantly furnished Hotel Klimsenhorn until the middle of the last century, built thirty years before the cogwheel railway to Pilatus. In many zigzags we reach the Pilatus Circular Path and through the "Chriesiloch" we head for the summit. The return trip with the cogwheel railway to Alpnachstad is a delight.

Author’s advice

Einkehren zum Start in der Bergwirtschaft zur Alpgschwänd und zum Schluss im Glasi-Restaurant Adler in Hergiswil. 

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Accessible by bus and train

No

Further information & links

Für touristische Auskünfte:

Nidwalden Tourismus
Bahnhofplatz 2
6370 Stans
+41 (0)41 610 88 33
info@nidwalden.com
www.nidwalden.com

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