Hikes for families and friends around Bern
The car travel time listed, is actually from Schliern Köniz, close to Bern, where I currently live. The parking link - Parking 🅿️📍 - is the destination pinpoint, so you can easily calculate the duration from your own location.
Under 1 hour by car
32’🚗 - Praz - Beautiful vineyard round 5km
Summary 📝 - Round hike around Praz, light, nice view on the Murten Lake and the Alps. Restaurant at the end. Must be great in autumn, through the vineyard…
- distance by car 🚗 - 32min
- hiking distance 🥾📏 - 5km
- difficulty 💓💦 - easy
- est. moving time 🥾⌛ - 1h
- elevation gain/loss 📈/📉 +57m/-57m
- round hike ✅
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🚠 ❌ 🚞 ❌ - Parking 🅿️📍
- Weather ☀️
- Gpx file 🛰️ 📂
- Webcams
- Restaurant 🍴
- tags 🏷️ - murtensee, family, round-hike, lake, wine, wineyard, fruit-trees
- Hikes 🥾 in the area
- done ✅
53’🚗 - SCHYNIGE PLATTE - LOUCHERHORN - SCHYNIGE PLATTE Panoramawanderung 7.2km
Summary 📝 - Beautiful mountain train from Wilderswill to Schynige Platte and back. Super view on the round hike on lakes Thun and Brienz on one side, and the Jungfrau mountains on the other side.
- distance by car 🚗 - 53min
- hiking distance 🥾📏 - 7.2km
- difficulty 💓💦 - easy/medium
- est. moving time 🥾⌛ - 2h30’
- elevation gain/loss 📈/📉 +281/-281m
- round hike ✅
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🚞 ✅ 🚠 ❌ - Parking 🅿️📍
- Weather ☀️
- Gpx file 🛰️ 📂
- Website ℹ️
- Webcams
- Restaurant 🍴
- tags 🏷️ - jungfrau, family, round-hike, lake-view, landscape
- to do ❌ (partially done)
Over 1 hour by car
1h5’🚗 - Grütschalp - Winteregg - Mürren 4.5km ( > Almendhubel 5km) 🥾
Summary 📝 - Cable car from Lauterbrunnen to Grütschalp, walk to Mürren, take railway to Almendhubel (nice restaurant with playground) Take the railway back to Mürren, or descend (2km) and then take train back to Grütschalp
- distance by car 🚗 - 1h 5min
- hiking distance 🥾📏 - 4.5km
- difficulty 💓💦 - easy
- est. moving time 🥾⌛ - 1h30min
- elevation gain/loss 📈/📉 +150m/-
- round hike ❌ (train back every 15min, very nice)
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🚠 ✅ 🚞 ✅ - Parking 🅿️📍
- Weather ☀️
- Gpx file 🛰️ 📂
- Website ℹ️
- Webcams
- Restaurant 🍴
- tags 🏷️ - lauterbrunnen, berner oberland, jungfrau
- to do ❌
1h13’🚗 - First - Bachalpsee - Waldpilz - Borg 7.8km
Summary 📝 - Cable car from Grindelwald to First, then nice walk to Bachalpsee (picnic maybe) and in the end a big descend with spectacular views to Bort middle station
- distance by car 🚗 - 1h 13min
- hiking distance 🥾📏 - 7.8km
- difficulty 💓💦 - medium
- est. moving time 🥾⌛ - 1h40min (3h with kids)
- elevation gain/loss 📈/📉 +153m/-758m
- round hike ❌
- 🚠 ✅
- Parking 🅿️📍 - !!!need to be there very early to get a place!!!
- Weather ☀️
- Gpx file 🛰️ 📂
- Website ℹ️
- Webcams
- Restaurant 🍴
- tags 🏷️ - grindelwald, berner oberland, jungfrau, first, hike, spectacular
- done ✅
1h22’🚗 Meiringen- Reinchenbachfall and Aare Gorge 8.4km
Summary 📝 - Cable car from Grindelwald to First, then nice walk to Bachalpsee (picnic maybe) and in the end a big descend with spectacular views to Bort middle station
- distance by car 🚗 - 1h 22in
- hiking distance 🥾📏 - 8.4km
- difficulty 💓💦 - easy/medium
- est. moving time 🥾⌛ - 2h20min (4h with kids)
- elevation gain/loss 📈/📉 +172m/-451m
- round hike ✅
- 🚞 ✅
- Parking 🅿️📍
- Weather ☀️
- Gpx file 🛰️ 📂
- Website ℹ️
- Webcams
- Restaurant 🍴
- tags 🏷️ - aareschlucht, haslital, meiringen, waterfall,
- to do ❌
