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Name Resorts Base elevation (m) Summit elevation (m) Vertical drop (m) Lifts 1 Ski pistes km Website Gstaad Mountain Rides: Gstaad: 1050: 2971 1921: 69: 250
St. Moritz (/ ˌ s æ n m ə ˈ r ɪ t s / SAN mə-RITS, US also / ˌ s eɪ n t-/ SAYNT-, UK also / s ən t ˈ m ɒr ɪ t s / sənt MORR-its; German, in full: Sankt Moritz [zaŋkt moˈrɪts, ˈmoːrɪts] locally; Romansh: San Murezzan [sam muˈʁetsən] ⓘ; Italian: San Maurizio; [a] French: Saint-Moritz) is a high Alpine resort town in the Engadine in Switzerland, at an elevation of about ...
It is St Moritz's only ‘ski-in’ and ‘ski-out’ hotel. [1] Conde Nast Traveller described it as "completely isolated" in the mountains. [14] The Trutz Chalet restaurant is at 7,200 feet above sea level, and can be reached by a ski lift. [15] The resort has a private ski lift, with Suvretta as the sole "ski-in/ski-out hotel" in St. Moritz.
The resort of St. Moritz at around 1,800 metres (5,900 ft) sits on Lej da San Murezzan. It was the host city for the 1928 and 1948 Winter Olympics. There are numerous ski resorts in the area served by the ski areas of Piz Corvatsch and Piz Nair. Val Roseg, south of Pontresina Val Trupchun in the Swiss National Park
One of the birthplaces of winter sports, the canton is a major tourist destination year-round, including a large number of Alpine resort towns, notably Davos and St. Moritz. The canton is also renowned for its extensive narrow-gauge railway network, operated by the Rhaetian Railway , and linking the capital with most valleys of the Grisons.
Piz Bernina and the Morteratsch Glacier. Piz Bernina is one of the few isolated Alpine four-thousanders and the most topographically isolated mountain of Switzerland.It is the culminating point of a group of summits slightly lower than 4,000 m (13,123 ft) mostly lying on the main watershed between Switzerland and Italy (such as Piz Scerscen, Piz Zupò, and Piz Palü).