Hiking in Engelberg

Hiking in Engelberg

Pauline Kenny, 2002

The mountain town of Engelberg serves as an excellent base for hiking and is a delightful town to visit. It is located at the end of a valley south of Lake Lucerne. Engelberg can be reached by train from Stans, near the lake.

You can reach enough hiking trails directly from the town to easily fill a week or two of hiking. If you stay longer, there are other good hiking areas nearby: several spots down the valley to Stans, hikes from the towns on Lake Lucerne and hikes in the area around Meiringen. If you have bad weather, there are good low level hikes in Engelberg.

In August 2003 we spent a week in Engelberg in a vacation rental apartment that we found through the tourist office. We devoted our days to hiking in the area. Although we did have a car for our trip, we could easily have managed without it in Engelberg.

Engelberg (population 3,000) is a nice sized town with good food shopping stores and several restaurants. We did not see many Americans here; mostly German ... // 95% Remaining