Schmelzboden – Zügenschlucht - Filisur

The starting point of the hike is Davos Monstein Station. From there, it is a few minutes' walk beside the highway to Schmelzboden, where you will find the Graubünden Mining Museum and the Schmelzboden Restaurant. From here also begins the mobility trail Zügenschlucht. On the way to Bärentritt, you can call up information at nine locations using your mobile phone and learn about the challenges of overcoming the narrow, steep Zügenschlucht in the past. This way, you also walk in the footsteps of the path, road, and railway builders who made our current mobility through the gorge possible.

From Schmelzboden, the hiking trail gradually descends into the Zügenschlucht and towards the Landwasser River. Via Silberberg, where zinc and lead ores were once smelted from the mountain, the path follows the wild Landwasser all along. It becomes truly spectacular at Bärentritt. Here, the Landwasser has deeply incised the rocks. The path now becomes quite narrow.

After Davos Wiesen Station, where you can stop at the small station café, those not afraid of heights cross the Landwasser on the Wiesner Viaduct, which is also crossed by the Rhaetian Railway Landwasser Gorge. Then you walk along the nature trail that conveys interesting facts about plants and animals, through the forest. At the Schönboden rest area with a fire pit, you can also turn left to reach Filisur Station faster. The path to the village goes straight ahead. Shortly thereafter, you come to a fork where you can turn left to climb up to Greifenstein Castle ruins, dating from the 12th century and formerly overseeing the Albula Valley. The route then leads into and through the village of Filisur to the station, with beautiful houses from the 17th and 18th centuries.

The museum offers one of the most attractive and extensive exhibitions of crystals and minerals: finds from Graubünden, huge rock crystals, minerals of all kinds and in all colors, and as a special attraction, stones that mysteriously glow under UV light. Small snacks and drinks are also available at the museum, as well as the brochure for the rock educational trail. (Open Tue-Fri, 2 - 5 pm each day.)

Monstein – Zügenstrasse – Wiesen – Filisur