Palfries mountain station - "in de Stei" - Stralrüfi mountain restaurant

We start the hike at the mountain station Palfries. With the Palfriesbahn we have previously overcome about 1,250 meters of altitude in just 12 minutes. The train goes over an imposing waterfall (Ragnatscher Bach) and takes us up to the Palfries plateau.

From the mountain station we hike along the asphalted road to the mountain inn Palfries. The path turns right at the parking lot and runs steadily upwards towards Alvier. Both «In de Stei» and «Mürli» the hiking trail turns left. We now hike slightly downhill towards the mountain restaurant Stralrüfi. Here an impressive panorama of the surrounding mountain peaks and Lake Walen awaits us. The one-hour way back to the mountain station leads along a wheelchair and stroller accessible dirt road.

On the way back from the mountain restaurant Stralrüfi towards the mountain station, we find the oldest residential building from the Walser era at the Althaus on Hinderpalfris. The dendrochronological examination has shown that the building was built in 1409 or 1410. The historic building can be visited freely (key depot in the Berggasthaus Palfries).

From the mountain station we hike over a length of 500 meters on the asphalted alpine road to the mountain inn Palfries. Immediately after the gravel parking lot, we take the mountain path to the right towards Alvier. After about half an hour we are "in de Stei", where we continue on the left. On the hike to the "Mürli" we can see the mountain spring with the most diverse and beautiful alpine flowers. There we turn left and walk more or less along the dry stone wall at the beginning. After about half an hour we reach the mountain restaurant Stralrüfi. The way back to the mountain station is docked and leads over the gravel dirt road to the parking lot, where we branched off at the beginning of the hike. The mountain station can be reached in a quarter of an hour, calculated from the mountain inn Palfries.