Braunwald
Braunwald is a ski destination in Glarus with 15 km of mapped pistes and 23 lifts, between 1'234 m and 1'900 m. Mostly blue and red, <1 km black. Nearby: Luchsingen, Rüti.
No lift-served skiing in Braunwald from winter 2026/27: the four ski lifts have stopped for good. The gondola still runs for sledging and ski touring. SRF, 26 Aug 2026
Your trip
Travel time from Swiss cities
| From | Car | Train |
|---|---|---|
| Chur | 51 min | 1h 31Linthal Braunwaldbahn · 1 change |
| Zug | 52 min | 1h 44Linthal Braunwaldbahn · 2 changes |
| Lucerne | 1h 02 | 2h 07Linthal Braunwaldbahn · 2 changes |
| Zürich | 1h 08 | 1h 30Linthal Braunwaldbahn · 1 change |
| St. Gallen | 1h 09 | 1h 37Linthal Braunwaldbahn · 1 change |
| Winterthur | 1h 14 | 2h 02Linthal Braunwaldbahn · 2 changes |
| Zurich Airport | 1h 14 | 1h 46Linthal Braunwaldbahn · 2 changes |
| Bern | 2h 09 | 2h 40Linthal Braunwaldbahn · 2 changes |
| Basel | 2h 18 | 2h 35Linthal Braunwaldbahn · 2 changes |
| Lausanne | 3h 03 | 3h 59Linthal Braunwaldbahn · 1 change |
| Geneva | 3h 48 | 4h 41Linthal Braunwaldbahn · 1 change |
| Geneva Airport | 3h 49 | 4h 51Linthal Braunwaldbahn · 1 change |
Train: the timetable’s fastest connection leaving the city’s station between 06:30 and 09:30 on Sat 16 Jan 2027, to the valley station of the area’s lowest lift, with the walk from the last stop. Car: an estimate from coordinates, not live traffic. Check your trip on sbb.ch before you go.
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 15 km
- Blue pistes
- 5 km
- Red pistes
- 9 km
- Black pistes
- <1 km
- Top station
- 1'900 m
- Base
- 1'234 m
- Vertical
- 667 m
- Longest mapped run
- 4.5 km, from 1'900 m down to 1'235 m
- Canton
- Glarus
Piste map
About Braunwald
Ski areas near Braunwald
Braunwald in numbers
25'656 winter hotel nights · 29 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in Glarus Süd, where the area’s lifts start: the federal statistics, and what the lift company publishes.
Hotels
In winter 2025/26 (November to April) the hotels of Glarus Süd sold 25'656 overnight stays, +15.5 % on 2024/25. 27 % of their rooms were occupied, with up to 695 beds in 22 open hotels. In summer 2025 (May to October) they sold 45'357; over winter 2024/25 and that summer, 33 % of the nights were in winter.
Guests in winter 2025/26: 77 % of the nights were Swiss residents’, then Germany 6 %, United States 3 %, Netherlands 2 % and United Kingdom 1 %.
Winter hotel nights, season by season
| Winter | Overnight stays | Rooms occupied | Beds at peak |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 25'656 | 27 % | 695 |
| 2024/25 | 22'206 | 27 % | 635 |
| 2023/24 | 23'330 | 32 % | 632 |
| 2022/23 | 25'394 | 30 % | 677 |
| 2021/22 | 29'582 | 31 % | 751 |
| 2020/21 | 22'003 | 23 % | 743 |
| 2019/20 | 23'683 | 26 % | 771 |
| 2018/19 | 27'519 | 26 % | 808 |
| 2017/18 | 25'686 | 22 % | 822 |
| 2016/17 | 25'778 | 24 % | 870 |
Homes
29 % of the 6'761 homes in Glarus Süd are second homes (housing inventory, October 2026). Above 20 %, the Second Homes Act allows no new second homes there, with narrow exceptions.
Upscale homes in Elm / Braunwald are offered at about CHF 6'900 per m² (UBS Swiss Alpine Property Focus 2026): -5.7 % on a year, +3.1 % a year over ten years.
Lifts
3 installations with a federal licence (gondolas, cable cars, chairlifts and funiculars; drag lifts are licensed by the cantons). The newest licence: 2007 (Braunwald Leglerberg - Gumen); half of them date from 1990 or earlier.
The 3 federally licensed installations
| Installation | Type | Licensed | Length | Rise | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Braunwald Leglerberg - Gumen | chairs and cabins | 2007 | 2'039 m | 590 m | – |
| Hüttenberg - Grotzenbüel | gondola | 1990 | 1'175 m | – | – |
| Grotzenbüel - Seblengrat | chairlift | 1969 | 1'177 m | – | – |
Commune figures count every hotel guest, not only skiers, and holiday flats are not in the hotel statistics. A licence year is when the installation’s current federal licence starts: usually the year it opened, sometimes a renewal.
Sources: Federal Statistical Office, hotel statistics (HESTA) · Federal Office for Spatial Development, housing inventory · Federal Office of Transport, cable cars with a federal licence · UBS Alpine Property Focus
Catalog facts from OpenSkiMap / OpenStreetMap (ODbL). Where an SLF station is nearby, the app shows its measured snow, and the day-pass price is read from the operator’s own shop or tariff; for opening status, check the operator.
Skigebiet Braunwald · Domaine skiable Braunwald · Comprensorio sciistico Braunwald