Hikes near Saas-Almagell
Saas-Almagell (1670 m) sits in Valais (Wallis), Switzerland. MR. ALPS lists 25 waymarked hiking trails starting from or crossing the area, 851 km of marked route in total. They run from 3.3 km to 507.3 km, the longest being AlpTrekking. 25 of them record their elevation gain, between 76 m and 37933 m.
The trail network at a glance
- Waymarked trails
- 25
- Total marked distance
- 851 km
- Shortest route
- 3.3 km
- Longest route
- 507.3 km
- Elevation gain
- 76–37933 m (on 25 trails)
- Difficulty recorded
- on 3 trails
- Route maps available
- on 25 trails
Walking times are estimates calculated from distance and elevation gain using Naismith's rule, and exclude stops.
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Vie Storiche Monte Moro Saas Almagell
The trail departs from the massive Mattmark dam and climbs to the Monte Moro Pass on Roman-era stone slabs, following a route that has served as a mountain crossing for millennia.
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19-Alpenpässe-Weg
From Gspon to Saas-Fee
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20-Alpenpässse-Weg
The route traverses the steep western flank of the Saas Valley along an exposed high-altitude path — some sections secured with wire cables — delivering constant panoramas of the Mischabel group, the Fletschhorn, the Weissmies, and the Matterhorn, with vertiginous views straight down into the valley below. The terrain shifts from open larch forest through boulder fields and across several avalanche chutes before arriving at the sunny terrace of Grächen.
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Zenlauinen - Saas-Almagell
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Saas-Fee - Saas-Almagell
This loop trail passes the Mattmark Dam and reservoir, where hikers can walk around the lake and stop for lunch. The route runs through the Saas Valley, a region encircled by more than a dozen four-thousand-metre peaks.
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Saas-Almagell - Berghaus Plattjen
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Höhenweg Almagelleralp
The route traverses the flanks of the Saas Valley at around 2400–2550 metres, delivering views of the glaciated Mischabel massif and the Dom (4545 m), the highest peak lying entirely on Swiss soil. Two suspension bridges up to 60 metres long punctuate the path, and at the ridge crossing of the Triftgrätji the entire valley opens up — from the Mattmark reservoir all the way down to Stalden.
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Saas-Almagell - Almagelleralp
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Saas-Fee - Plattjen
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Plattjen - Egginerjoch
This trail threads through the arena of several 4,000-metre peaks surrounding the Saas Fee valley basin, passing through Egginerjoch and Morenia on its circuit around the basin.
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Saas-Grund - Saas-Fee
The route descends from Saas-Fee through forest and along the Saaser-Vispa river, climbing through Zermeiggern and Chapfwald to the lunch stop at Furggstalden, before returning via a panoramic ridge path through Spisswald and Zum Moss down to Saas-Grund.
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Alpenblumen Promenade
Botanists from Horace Bénédict de Saussure to the Prior of the Great St. Bernard once roamed these slopes, and the trail from Kreuzboden still threads through one of the finest alpine flower regions in the Swiss Alps, high above the Saastal. The route descends from a gondola station ringed by four-thousand-metre peaks toward Saas-Grund, tracing an easy path through what the sources call a nearly forgotten paradise of alpine blooms.
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Alpenblick - Gletschergrotte
The trail leads from the village of Saas-Fee through open, green landscape to a crystal-blue glacier lake at 1904 m, then continues past the Bergrestaurant Gletschergrotte at 1997 m, which serves local food and drinks with a mountain panorama.
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Gemsweg Saas-Fee
From Saas-Fee, Hannig to Saas-Fee
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Bärenfalle - Hannig
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Gletschergrotte - Längfluh
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Antronpass - Heitbodme
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Alpenpässe-Weg: Gspon - Saas-Fee
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Alpenpässe-Weg: Saas-Fee - Grächen
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Swiss Tour Monte Rosa: Saas-Fee - Grächen
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Tour Monte Rosa
around the Monte Rosa group
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AlpTrekking
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C00 - Strada Antronesca tappa 3
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B28 - Mondelli - Passo Mondelli
From Mondelli to Passo Mondelli
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B99 - Chiesa Vecchia, bivio B00 - Passo di Monte Moro
From Chiesa Vecchia, bivio B00 to Passo di Monte Moro
More hiking near Saas-Almagell
Other walking bases within 40 km of Saas-Almagell, each with its own trail list:
- Saas-Fee, Valais (Wallis) — 28 trails, 2.7 km away
- Saas-Grund, Valais (Wallis) — 29 trails, 3.5 km away
- Saas-Balen, Valais (Wallis) — 26 trails, 6.9 km away
- Alpe Cheggio, Piedmont (Piemonte) — 21 trails, 8.7 km away
- Cheggio, Piedmont (Piemonte) — 19 trails, 12.5 km away
- Eisten, Valais/Wallis — 7 trails, 12.6 km away