Mountain Hostel Gimmelwald
The hostel doors are always open! If you arrive anytime between 12pm and 6pm you can drop your bags, go for a hike, use kitchen facilities, play pool,
basically do whatever you want short of sleeping in bed until we assign one to you ...
Gimmelwald is a small village in the Bernese Oberland in Switzerland, halfway up the mountain between Stechelberg and Mürren. The Schilthorn cable car stops in Gimmelwald. In addition to a shop that sells fresh cheeses, Gimmelwald also possesses its own school and firehouse. Farming and tourism are the main occupations. Farmers raise hay on tiny plots of land to feed small herds of cows. Gimmelwald has a few small hotels, bed & breakfasts and the 50-bed Gimmelwald Mountain Hostel. There is a walking path between Gimmelwald and Mürren, but lacking connection to the main road system, the main transportation to Gimmelwald is the Luftseilbahn Stechelberg-Mürren-Schilthorn (LSMS) aerial tramway. The tram travels down from Gimmelwald to Stechelberg on the floor of the Lauterbrunnen valley, where there are bus and train connections to the rest of Switzerland, and up to the town of Mürren and the
Schilthorn.
