Palfries mountain station - Gonzen mountain guesthouse - Lanaberg - Sargans

We start the hike at the Palfries mountain station. The Palfriesbahn cable car takes us up around 1,250 meters in just 12 minutes. The cable car travels over an impressive waterfall (Ragnatscher Bach) and takes us up to the Palfries plateau.
Once at the mountain station, we follow the path towards the summit of Gonzen, but then turn off before the uphill section. After three quarters of an hour, we reach the Gonzen mountain inn, where we can enjoy a magnificent view of the Rhine Valley ahead of us as well as the nearby and expansive mountain world of Vorarlberg, the Principality of Liechtenstein and Graubünden. This is followed by a steep, but not difficult, descent across meadows and pastures to Lanaberg. The route then continues along the natural road (partly asphalted) to Sargans.

Make a detour to the Gonzen and enjoy the view of the St. Gallen and Chur Rhine valleys, the Principality of Liechtenstein and the Sargans plain.

We start the hike from the Palfries mountain station in a south-easterly direction over the Chamm. We then leave the asphalted alpine road and take the path towards Alp Riet (Rieterhütte). The gently sloping hiking trail initially leads through wetlands, some of which are spanned by "wooden bridges", and then over alpine meadows to the aforementioned Rieterhütte huts. From there, we hike downhill for around 700 meters on the road, where we then turn right onto the mountain path. We soon arrive at the Gonzen mountain inn and continue along a dirt road, meadows and pastures. At Lanaberg, the mountain trail joins the natural road (Rheintal-Höhenweg). We follow this in a southerly direction. After a walk of around 3 km, the road joins the asphalted access road to Oberprod. Follow this road briefly downhill and then take the shortcut via a lane. We cross the aforementioned access road twice. Shortly before or above Sargans Castle, we take the path to the left and then continue more or less straight ahead - leaving the castle on the right - to the center and traffic junction of Sargans. From here we have another 10 minutes to the train station.