Surroundings · 19 areas
What is Valais serving up for you today?
The chalet isn't a destination on the edge of a single ski area. It's the centre of the whole Upper Valais, and everything below is within about thirty minutes.
Chalet Blue Spoon
900 m
Rosswald
±10 min · cable car from Ried-Brig
Rothwald-Wasenalp
±15 min · car
Simplon Pass
±20 to 25 min · car
Brig & Stockalper Palace
±7 min · car
Brigerbad Thermal Baths
±15 min · car
Belalp & Blatten
±15 min · car + cable car
Riederalp (Aletsch Arena)
±13 min · car + cable car
Bettmeralp (Aletsch Arena)
±15 min · car + cable car
Eggishorn / Fiescheralp
±25 min · car + cable car
Belalp-Riederalp Suspension Bridge
hike from Belalp
Bellwald (Mountaincart)
±30 to 35 min · car
World Nature Forum (Naters)
±10 min · car
Visperterminen
±25 min · car
Achera Biela (Termen)
±5 min · car
Schematic view of travel times from the chalet; the Rosswald valley station is in Ried-Brig itself.
Two ways to look
Start with a place, or start with what you want to do. The two overviews point to each other: every activity belongs to one area, or stands on its own.
19 areas
Areas
For each area you see at a glance whether you can ski, how many kilometres of piste, at what altitude and how long the trip takes, with its own website.
16 ski areas
up to 360 km of piste
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140 activities
Activities
Filtered by season, with the distance from the chalet and a link to the provider. Including standalone outings that do not belong to an area, such as the Blausee.
Summer
Winter
Year-round
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Day trips, just beyond the 30 minutes
For those who want to go further: icons of Valais and the Bernese Oberland, all doable as half- or full-day trips.
Zermatt & Matterhorn
±1 h 10 · train from Brig
Gornergrat and Matterhorn Glacier Paradise, a car-free village beneath the 4,478 m icon.
Saas-Fee
±50 min · car
Car-free glacier village among thirteen four-thousanders; the world's highest revolving restaurant (3,500 m).
Grächen
±45 min · car
Family resort with the SiSu family paradise and suspension bridges on the Europaweg.
Gondo Gorge
±35 to 40 min · car
A dramatic granite gorge on the Simplon route, the end point of the Stockalper trail.
Lötschberg car shuttle
±30 min to Goppenstein
A 15-minute car shuttle to Kandersteg and Lake Oeschinen.
Glacier Express
board in Brig · 7 min
The "slowest express train in the world", bound for Zermatt or St. Moritz.