Saas Fee: true Swiss character.
The winter sun casts its spell over the glaciers of Saas Fee and then it simply becomes a dream world of distinctive beauty.
Adventures happen every day and every day is an adventure. The world’s highest underground funicular railway opened here in 1984.
The metro brings you to an 11,483-foot altitude for a most scenic descent around the magnificent glaciers. Saas Fee’s downhill trails are superbly divided among beginner, intermediate and expert levels.
The village of Saas Fee is also at the peak when it comes to culinary art. From a lighthearted get-together to the lively discos, Saas Fee will not disappoint you with after skiing excitement. A snow park, especially for snowboarders was built in 1996.
Treat yourself to a lunch in the world’s highest revolving restaurant and admire an outstanding panorama of Europe’s highest mountain peaks unfolding in front of you. Just a few steps from the restaurant visit the ice pavilion see the glacier from the inside with natural crevasses amidst changing colors of the ice formation.
Mountain Stats
- Base: 1,483 metres
- Summit: 3,600 metres
- Vertical: 2,117 metres
- Ski area extent: 145 km
- Longest run: 15 km
- Beginner: 39 km
- Intermediate: 75 km
- Advanced: 39 km
- Number of ski lifts: 38
- Cable cars: 4
- Funiculars: 1
- Gondolas: 6
- Chairlifts: 4