Chäserrugg-Alt St. Johann
Chäserrugg-Alt St. Johann is a ski destination in St. Gallen with 33 km of mapped pistes and 23 lifts, between 891 m and 2'260 m. Mostly red, 2 km black. Nearby: Alt St. Johann, Grabserberg, Unterwasser.
Rank Chäserrugg-Alt St. Johann against every ski area near St. Gallen for this weekend
This weekend
Measured snow, weekend forecast and day pass
Snow at the nearest SLF station
Snow depth 1 cm, no new snow in 24 hours, at SLF station Bärenfall (1'610 m), 11.9 km from the ski area. Measured on .
Source: WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, IMIS station AMD2. This is the nearest comparable station, not the ski area's own pistes. Fetched .
Weekend forecast
- : Partly cloudy, 4°C, wind 5 km/h
- : Partly cloudy, 5°C, wind 5 km/h
Source: MeteoSwiss, local forecast for Alt St. Johann / Mittelberg (1'365 m, 3.8 km from the ski area), with the temperature at the ski area's mid-mountain, averaged over 09:00–16:00. Fetched .
Adult day pass
CHF 53.50 for . The operator’s online price for that day when it was read: an area that prices by date or demand may charge more or less when you buy. The coming weekend has no price yet, so this is the day pass for a Saturday in January.
Source: shop.chaeserrugg.ch, “Skitickets, Erwachsen 1 Tag”, read .
For the size: the area maps 33 km of pistes and 1'369 m of vertical, and areas like that charged about CHF 61 for . This pass is 13% less.
Skiboard’s comparison, a curve through the 141 day passes it read for that day; the km are what OpenStreetMap maps, which an operator’s own total can exceed. It says nothing about which lifts run on the day.
Day-pass prices this weekend at every Swiss ski area
Written into this page when it was last built. The live ranking uses the newest values.
Your trip
Parking at Chäserrugg-Alt St. Johann
6 car parks by the lifts
OpenStreetMap maps these 6 car parks by the lifts of Chäserrugg-Alt St. Johann, the biggest first.
- Underground car park 350 m from the Sesselbahn/Gondelbahn Alt St.Johann-Sellamatt · Map
- Underground car park 380 m from the Standseilbahn Unterwasser-Iltios · piste 270 m away · Map
- Car park paid · 170 m from the Sesselbahn/Gondelbahn Alt St.Johann-Sellamatt · piste 120 m away · Map
- Freibad Unterwasser Car park · paid · 40 m from the Standseilbahn Unterwasser-Iltios · by a piste · Map
- Car park paid · by the Standseilbahn Unterwasser-Iltios · by a piste · Map
- Car park free · 180 m from the Standseilbahn Unterwasser-Iltios · by a piste · Map
Distances are in a straight line to the bottom station of the nearest lift. Fees change: check with the car park before you go.
Car parks from OpenStreetMap, read 30 Oct 2026 (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL). A car park missing? Fix the map
Travel time from Swiss cities
| From | Car | Train |
|---|---|---|
| St. Gallen | 36 min | 1h 08Alt St. Johann, Dorf · 2 changes |
| Chur | 49 min | 1h 39Alt St. Johann, Dorf · 2 changes |
| Winterthur | 1h 06 | 1h 36Alt St. Johann, Dorf · 3 changes |
| Zug | 1h 09 | 2h 09Alt St. Johann, Dorf · 3 changes |
| Zürich | 1h 11 | 1h 49Alt St. Johann, Dorf · 2 changes |
| Zurich Airport | 1h 13 | 1h 51Alt St. Johann, Dorf · 3 changes |
| Lucerne | 1h 27 | 2h 34Alt St. Johann, Dorf · 4 changes |
| Basel | 2h 29 | 3h 06Alt St. Johann, Dorf · 4 changes |
| Bern | 2h 36 | 3h 11Alt St. Johann, Dorf · 4 changes |
| Lausanne | 3h 31 | 4h 26Alt St. Johann, Dorf · 2 changes |
| Geneva | 4h 17 | 5h 08Alt St. Johann, Dorf · 2 changes |
| Geneva Airport | 4h 18 | 5h 18Alt St. Johann, Dorf · 4 changes |
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.
Plan your trip
Practical links for the trip. They do not affect the ranking.
- Stay in Alt St. Johann Booking.com · Saturday to Sunday, 7 Nov – 8 Nov · 2 adults
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 33 km
- Blue pistes
- 7 km
- Red pistes
- 25 km
- Black pistes
- 2 km
- Lifts
- 23
- Top station
- 2'260 m
- Base
- 891 m
- Vertical
- 1'369 m
- Longest mapped run
- 6.9 km, from 2'260 m down to 891 m
- Mountain restaurants
- 8
- Canton
- St. Gallen
Piste map
How steep the pistes in Chäserrugg-Alt St. Johann are
Blue: gentler than most. Red: typical.
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 5 · 5.9 km | 21 % | 28 % | gentler than most |
| Red | 18 · 24.3 km | 39 % | 38 % | typical |
| Black | 1 · 1.5 km | 49 % | 51 % | — |
The steepest 100 m: 54 % on 39 Letzi-Chueweid (red).
Long descents without flat stretches 3
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 24 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in Chäserrugg-Alt St. Johann (31.7 km) on swisstopo’s terrain model: the steepest 100 m of each, against every Swiss piste of the same colour.
Measured along the line OpenStreetMap draws, on terrain without snow: snow and grooming soften steps, and a piste can run beside its line. A gradient of 100 % is 45°. Colours as OpenStreetMap maps them, which can differ from the lift company’s piste map: check it before you go.
Piste lines from OpenStreetMap, read 30 Oct 2026 (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); terrain: swissALTI3D © swisstopo. A piste wrong or missing? Fix the map
Mountain restaurants in Chäserrugg-Alt St. Johann
OpenStreetMap maps 8 places to eat or drink up the mountain in Chäserrugg-Alt St. Johann, highest first.
- Gipfelrestaurant Chäserrugg Restaurant · about 2'260 m · Map
- Berggasthaus Gamsalp Restaurant · Map
- Berggasthaus Stöfeli Restaurant · about 1'670 m · Map
Show 5 more
Opening times change with the season and the snow: check with the restaurant or the lift company before you go.
From OpenStreetMap, read 25 Oct 2026 (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL). A place missing or closed? Fix the map
Ski schools at Chäserrugg-Alt St. Johann
| School | Private lesson | Group lesson at the weekend |
|---|---|---|
| Schweizer Skischule Chäserrugg | CHF 250 for three hours | yes |
Every price and time
One ski school publishes its prices for Chäserrugg-Alt St. Johann. What it charges for group and private lessons, and when its group lessons run:
- Schweizer Skischule Chäserrugg Swiss Ski School
- Group lessons
- children CHF 48 per half-day (2 h), children CHF 75 per day, CHF 215 for five half-days, CHF 300 for five days; from age 3
- Private lessons
- CHF 170 for two hours, CHF 250 for three hours, CHF 350 for a day; for up to 2 people; at least 1.5 h; each further person CHF 10
- Times
- children’s group lessons Monday to Friday, 10:00–12:00 and 14:00–16:00; group lessons also on Saturdays and Sundays
Prices as the schools publish them, the low-season price where they vary; a lift ticket and rental are not included. Skiboard sells no lessons and earns nothing from a booking. Group or private lesson, and what ski schools charge across Switzerland
About Chäserrugg-Alt St. Johann
Ski areas near Chäserrugg-Alt St. Johann
Chäserrugg-Alt St. Johann in numbers
40'621 winter hotel nights · 64 % second homes
Hotels, homes and lifts in Wildhaus-Alt St. Johann, 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 Wildhaus-Alt St. Johann sold 40'621 overnight stays, +3.2 % on 2024/25. 32 % of their rooms were occupied, with up to 1'092 beds in 20 open hotels. In summer 2025 (May to October) they sold 50'174; over winter 2024/25 and that summer, 44 % of the nights were in winter.
Guests in winter 2025/26: 87 % of the nights were Swiss residents’, then Germany 8 %, Netherlands 1 %, Luxembourg 1 % and Belgium 0 %.
Winter hotel nights, season by season
| Winter | Overnight stays | Rooms occupied | Beds at peak |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 40'621 | 32 % | 1'092 |
| 2024/25 | 39'353 | 34 % | 1'065 |
| 2023/24 | 41'436 | 36 % | 1'072 |
| 2022/23 | 43'034 | 32 % | 1'074 |
| 2021/22 | 39'826 | 31 % | 1'085 |
| 2020/21 | 29'979 | 24 % | 1'029 |
| 2019/20 | 33'998 | 28 % | 1'090 |
| 2018/19 | 41'876 | 34 % | 1'160 |
| 2017/18 | 40'820 | 30 % | 1'177 |
| 2016/17 | 40'871 | 29 % | 1'177 |
Homes
64 % of the 3'268 homes in Wildhaus-Alt St. Johann 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 Wildhaus are offered at about CHF 7'300 per m² (UBS Swiss Alpine Property Focus 2026): +2.5 % on a year, +2.7 % a year over ten years.
Lifts
5 installations with a federal licence (gondolas, cable cars, chairlifts and funiculars; drag lifts are licensed by the cantons). The newest licence: 2015 (Espel - Stöfeli); half of them date from 2003 or earlier.
The 5 federally licensed installations
| Installation | Type | Licensed | Length | Rise | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Espel - Stöfeli | gondola | 2015 | 1'469 m | 419 m | Toggenburg Bergbahnen AG |
| Stöfeli - Chäserrugg | gondola | 2015 | – | – | Toggenburg Bergbahnen AG |
| Alt St. Johann - Alp Selamatt | gondola | 2003 | 1'490 m | 501 m | Toggenburg Bergbahnen AG |
| Selamatt - Ruestel | chairlift | 1999 | – | – | Toggenburg Bergbahnen AG |
| Iltios - Chäserrugg | cable car | 1972 | – | – | Toggenburg Bergbahnen AG |
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
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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.
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