Wildhaus
Wildhaus is a ski destination in St. Gallen with 31 km of mapped pistes and 9 lifts, between 1'016 m and 2'070 m. Red and ski routes, 3 km black, 10 km ski routes. Nearby: Grabs, Grabserberg, Unterwasser.
Rank Wildhaus 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
There is no SLF snow station within 15 km of Wildhaus at a comparable elevation (within 500 m of the ski area's mid-mountain), so Skiboard shows no measured snow for this ski area.
Weekend forecast
- : Partly cloudy, 4°C, wind 5 km/h
- : Partly cloudy, 4°C, wind 5 km/h
Source: MeteoSwiss, local forecast for Wildhaus (1'090 m, 2.3 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 63 for . The operator’s published tariff for the season. The coming weekend has no price yet, so this is the day pass for a Saturday in January.
Source: wildhaus.ch, “Tagesskipass Einzelpersonen, Erwachsene ab 20 Jahren, 1 Tag”, read .
For the size: the area maps 31 km of pistes and 1'054 m of vertical, and areas like that charged about CHF 55 for . This pass is 14% more.
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 Wildhaus
6 car parks by the lifts
OpenStreetMap maps these 6 car parks by the lifts of Wildhaus, the biggest first.
- Car park paid · 340 m from the Sesselbahn Wildhaus-Oberdorf · by a piste · Map
- Car park paid · 200 m from the Sesselbahn Wildhaus-Oberdorf · piste 50 m away · Map
- Car park 440 m from the Sesselbahn Wildhaus-Oberdorf · piste 60 m away · Map
- Car park paid · 170 m from the Sesselbahn Wildhaus-Oberdorf · piste 120 m away · Map
- Car park paid · by the Gamsalpbahn · by a piste · Map
- Car park paid · by the Sesselbahn Wildhaus-Oberdorf · 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 | 35 min | 1h 17Wildhaus, Lisighaus · 2 changes |
| Chur | 48 min | 1h 28Wildhaus, Bergbahnen · 2 changes |
| Winterthur | 1h 08 | 1h 43Wildhaus, Bergbahnen · 3 changes |
| Zug | 1h 13 | 2h 16Wildhaus, Bergbahnen · 4 changes |
| Zürich | 1h 14 | 1h 56Wildhaus, Bergbahnen · 3 changes |
| Zurich Airport | 1h 16 | 1h 58Wildhaus, Bergbahnen · 4 changes |
| Lucerne | 1h 30 | 2h 41Wildhaus, Bergbahnen · 5 changes |
| Basel | 2h 31 | 3h 03Wildhaus, Bergbahnen · 3 changes |
| Bern | 2h 39 | 3h 08Wildhaus, Bergbahnen · 4 changes |
| Lausanne | 3h 35 | 4h 26Wildhaus, Dorf · 3 changes |
| Geneva | 4h 20 | 5h 00Wildhaus, Bergbahnen · 5 changes |
| Geneva Airport | 4h 21 | 5h 10Wildhaus, Bergbahnen · 5 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 Wildhaus Booking.com · Saturday to Sunday, 7 Nov – 8 Nov · 2 adults
The mountain
Facts
- Mapped pistes
- 31 km
- Blue pistes
- 5 km
- Red pistes
- 13 km
- Black pistes
- 3 km
- Ski routes
- 10 km
- Lifts
- 9
- Top station
- 2'070 m
- Base
- 1'016 m
- Vertical
- 1'054 m
- Longest mapped run
- 5.5 km, from 2'070 m down to 1'017 m
- Mountain restaurants
- 6
- Canton
- St. Gallen
Piste map
How steep the pistes in Wildhaus are
Blue and red: typical.
| Colour | Pistes | Steepest 100 m, typically | All of Switzerland | Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue | 3 · 4.3 km | 24 % | 28 % | typical |
| Red | 10 · 11.5 km | 36 % | 38 % | typical |
| Black | 2 · 3.0 km | 38 % | 51 % | — |
The steepest 100 m: 46 % on 10 Warmtobel (black).
Long descents without flat stretches 3
How this was measured
Skiboard measured the 15 pistes OpenStreetMap maps in Wildhaus (18.8 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 Wildhaus
OpenStreetMap maps 6 places to eat or drink up the mountain in Wildhaus, highest first.
- Berggasthaus Gamsalp Restaurant · about 1'770 m · Map
- Snowland Bar Bar · about 1'270 m · Map
- Oberguet-Stübli Café · Map
Show 3 more
- Berggasthaus Oberdorf Restaurant · about 1'230 m · Map
- Funi Bar Bar · about 1'230 m · Map
- GADE – mini Beiz Restaurant · Map
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 Wildhaus
| School | Private lesson | Group lesson at the weekend |
|---|---|---|
| Schweizerische Schneesportschule Wildhaus | CHF 160 for two hours | yes |
Every price and time
One ski school publishes its prices for Wildhaus. What it charges for group and private lessons, and when its group lessons run:
- Schweizerische Schneesportschule Wildhaus Swiss Ski School
- Group lessons
- children CHF 45 per half-day (2 h), CHF 200 for five half-days, CHF 250 for five days; from age 3
- Private lessons
- CHF 160 for two hours; for one person; at least 2 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 Wildhaus
Ski areas near Wildhaus
Wildhaus 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
Bergbahnen Wildhaus AG, fiscal year 2025/26: CHF 7.5 million revenue, EBITDA CHF 1.1 million and CHF 567'298 invested. Its shares trade on OTC-X. Annual report 2025/26
3 installations with a federal licence (gondolas, cable cars, chairlifts and funiculars; drag lifts are licensed by the cantons). The newest licence: 2020 (Oberdorf - Freienalp); half of them date from 2003 or earlier.
The 3 federally licensed installations
| Installation | Type | Licensed | Length | Rise | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oberdorf - Freienalp | chairlift | 2020 | 1'289 m | 218 m | Bergbahnen Wildhaus AG |
| Oberdorf - Gamsalp | chairlift | 2003 | 2'028 m | 545 m | Bergbahnen Wildhaus AG |
| Thur - Oberdorf | chairlift | 1995 | 792 m | 214 m | Bergbahnen Wildhaus 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.
Skigebiet Wildhaus · Domaine skiable Wildhaus · Comprensorio sciistico Wildhaus