Summary Kleine Scheidegg/​Männlichen – Grindelwald/​Wengen

Summary of the ski resort Kleine Scheidegg/​​Männlichen – Grindelwald/​​Wengen

Description Kleine Scheidegg/​Männlichen – Grindelwald/​Wengen

The best way to access the Grindelwald/Wengen ski area in the Jungfrau Ski Region is via the new Grindelwald Terminal. Here you'll find over 1,000 parking spaces, a direct train connection, and a bus link. With the Eiger Express (3S cableway) or the Männlichenbahn (10-person gondola), you can quickly and without waiting times reach the ski area at the foot of the Eiger, Mönch, and Jungfrau.

Grindelwald and Grindelwald Grund are also connected by the WAB Wengernalpbahn. In Grindelwald, trains always connect to and from Interlaken Ost. The journey from Grindelwald to Grund takes just a few minutes.

The ride up to Kleine Scheidegg via Brandegg and Alpiglen takes just under half an hour. Once you arrive at Kleine Scheidegg, you can ski off in any direction. But you should definitely not miss the trip to Jungfraujoch on the cog railway. At the Eigergletscher station at 2,320 m, you can get off before the train disappears into the tunnel.

Please note: from Eigergletscher station, you need a separate ticket to go up to Jungfraujoch. On the way up, the train stops at Eigerwand (2,865 m) and Eismeer (3,160 m), where you can briefly get out and admire the stunning scenery through the tunnel windows. After just under 50 minutes from Kleine Scheidegg station, you reach Jungfraujoch – Top of Europe, the highest railway station in Europe. Up here, there’s plenty to see (Ice Palace, Sphinx, etc.) and you can enjoy the magnificent views of the mountains and the Aletsch Glacier. The Sphinx, a weather station located about 100 m higher, can be reached by the fastest elevator in Switzerland.

From Eigergletscher station, you can take challenging runs down to Wixi. Here, you can take the Fallboden double chairlift back towards Kleine Scheidegg or the detachable six-seater chairlift Wixi up to the Lauberhorn. At the top is also the start of the annual Lauberhorn race (mid-January). The racecourse is an official piste down to Wengen. From the Lauberhorn finish slope, the detachable four-seater chairlift Innerwengen takes you up to Allmend.

Now you can either board the Wengernalpbahn in Allmend or take the easy run down to Wengen and board the cog railway there. It’s always a good idea to have a timetable with you, as the trains run only about every half hour. The cog railway takes you back to Kleine Scheidegg.

In the village of Wengen, the aerial cableway also departs, taking you up to Männlichen in just 5 minutes – you can’t get there any faster. From Kleine Scheidegg, you can swoosh down to Grindelwald Grund via two very long, easy valley runs, or use the Honegg six-seater chairlift and the Tschuggen drag lift to switch over to Männlichen. The aerial cableway from Wengen also ends up here.

There is no direct run from Männlichen to Wengen; you have to take the three detachable four-seater chairlifts Gummi, Arven, and Lauberhorn via Kleine Scheidegg to get to Wengen. From Männlichen, a dream run of 7 kilometers leads down to Grindelwald Grund. The slopes are mostly pleasantly easy, but the views are dramatic: it’s no wonder that visitors from all over Japan flock to Grindelwald to capture this unique panorama on film.

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