Summer holidays
Mountain paradise and land of adventure
The mountains are bursting with the promise of adventure: and here you are, right in the firing line! If you enjoy outdoor activities, you've chosen well. There are mountain adventures and leisure activities aplenty for naturalists, hikers, cyclists, geocachers and Nordic walkers alike, all set in the heart of a sunlit natural paradise of unrivalled beauty.
Summer activities
Our guest programme for sporty nature lovers
Hiking, climbing, mountain biking, snowshoe hiking – the Montafon can be explored in a number of different ways. Aside from the impressive nature, exciting details of Montafon and its special features can be discovered with the wide range of activities for adults, families and children, which change on a daily basis.
And the best thing about it? As our guests, you participate free of charge in all activities of BergePLUS, because your holiday adventures are included with us.
Since the places to participate in the BergePLUS program are limited, we recommend our guests to reserve their participation in the BergePLUS program right after booking their stay!
Since 2014 Hotel Bachmann is one of the officially recognised associate members of the “walking villages” association. As the name suggests, this association offers guests numerous services to enhance their walking holiday experience in Gargellen:
- Information centre, with touring maps and suggestions for walks starting from the hotel
- Information boards, with the low-down on the latest walking programmes, mountain hut details, public transport timetables and forthcoming events in Gargellen and the surroundings.
- Weekly guided walk
- Two further free walks each week, accompanied by walking guides from the valley
- Hire of walking equipment
- Hire of walking maps and digital walking guides for Gargellen and surroundings
- Free Montafon walking maps
- Walking and touring suggestions from your hosts
- Drying room for shoes and walking gear
- Laundry service for your walking clothes
An idyllic backdrop
Walk through a landscape of flower-filled alpine meadows, sleepy mountain lakes and ancient forests. Come and discover the diversity of the breathtaking mountain world which is the Montafon.
It's hard to imagine that a landscape of such fascinating natural beauty could emerge from beneath the all-encompassing winter snow!
A natural paradise for sport and leisure!
A landscape full of diversity
A variety of walks for nature lovers
Montafon offers you more than 1,160 kilometres of hiking trails. More than 1,160 possibilities to make spring and summer a varied time. Where the snow is metres high in winter, the rest of the year the focus is on hiking. You start out over lush alpine meadows, through dense forests and past idyllic huts and alpine taverns.
Surrounded by three mountain ranges, the hiking area in Montafon could hardly be more varied. To the northwest you can see the striking limestone cliffs of the Rätikon. In the south, the partially glaciated Silvretta. And in the north-east, the natural diversity of the Verwall European nature reserve.
So what are you waiting for? All signs point to hiking in Vorarlberg and enjoying the Montafon!
Hiking highlights in Montafon
- 1,160 kilometres of hiking trails
- more than 40 idyllic huts
- From easy to difficult, barrier-free and family-friendly: there are more than 267 hiking tours waiting for every taste.
- more than 20 mountain experiences of a special kind
- Mountain railway operation also in the summer months
- 3 different hiking buses (Hinteres Silbertal until 15 September, Rellstal until 11 October and Rellseck until mid-October)
Walkers’ buses, cable cars and chair-lifts shorten approach times and facilitate access to the sunny mountain-tops.
The Montafon offers numerous vie ferrate, climbing walls and unrivalled guided mountain tours.
A sound knowledge of the relevant safety techniques is absolutely crucial, and the highly trained Montafon mountain guides are on hand to share their specialist knowledge. Their weekly guided programme offers the perfect opportunity to really get hooked on climbing.
Climbing equipment may be hired from Intersport Silvretta Montafon in St. Gallenkirch and Gaschurn, and from Pure Mountain Equipment at the bottom station of the cable car in Gargellen.
50 kilometres | 9 circuits | 2 starting points
» All Nordic walking circuits with height profiles
» further information about Nordic walking in the Montafon
A new concept of cycling
The Montafon offers 860km of mountain bike tours, from easy cycle tracks to passages where bikes must be carried. There's a suitable route for every standard.
» everything you need to know about mountain-biking in the Montafon
Open up a whole new world – Electro-biking in the Montafon
Cycling in the high mountain areas of the Rätikon, Verwall and Silvretta is no longer the exclusive reserve of sinewy, athletic mountain-bikers. As from now, these areas have become accessible to anyone who loves exploring and enjoys a good bike ride.
The Montafon valley has developed an extensive network of electro-bike centres, connecting up with the main Vorarlberg network. Of course, on an electro-bike you still have to do some of the pedalling yourself! What these bikes do is to give the rider supplementary power up to a speed of 25 km/h, although higher speeds are always possible using your own pedal power. But the electric motor gives you a considerable boost on strenuous mountain roads, and ensures that, whatever the weather, the wind is always behind you, helping you along. A wonderful new-found freedom for cyclists of all ages!
Any nature lover aged 14 or more can hop on an electro-bike and participate in the Montafon high mountain tour, a circuit of the summits of the Rätikon, Verwall and Silvretta massifs. Why not join one of the guided electro-bike tours offered by the Aktivclub Montafon? There’s the archery tour, the energetic biking tour, and the cushy tour, which visits the cheese dairy in Schruns. Or you can enjoy some bike-caching, a treasure hunt involving a GPS and some relevant co-ordinates.
As a partner of the Aktivclub Montafon our guests receive a discount of 50% on the hire price! Or you can simply book a guided electro-bike tour – that way the bike comes as part of the package!
Montafon Brandnertal card entitles the bearer to unlimited use of the following leisure facilities for 3, 5, 7, 10 or 14 consecutive days respectively.
- Cable cars and chairlifts in the Montafon, Bludenz, Brandnertal, and Klostertal, as well as the Schnifisberg cable car in the Walgau, (for regular scheduled services during normal operating hours)
- free use of scheduled public transport services: bus services in the Montafon, post buses and regional buses in the Brandnertal, Großes Walsertal, Klostertal, the Walgau as far as Feldkirch, the Montafon valley railway (Bludenz – Schruns) and ÖBB (Austrian national railways) Feldkirch – Bludenz – St. Anton am Arlberg. IMPORTANT: The Montafon Silvretta card is not valid on the buses and trains of the Verkehrsverbund Tirol (Tyrolean transport union): use of walkers’ buses is NOT covered by the Montafon Silvretta card.
- Toll-free use of the Silvretta High Alpine Road for card holders, when travelling in a private car/motor bike or bus
- Public open-air swimming pools (Alpenbad Montafon in Schruns-Tschagguns, Rätikonbad in Vandans,
- Partenen open-air pool, “Mountain Beach” fun park in Gaschurn, “Aquarena” all-weather baths in St. Gallenkirch/Gortipohl,
- VAL BLU open-air swimming complex in Bludenz (open-air pool only, no indoor pool), Braz swimming pool,
- Dalaas swimming pool, Alvierbad in Brand and Klösterle swimming pool)
- Free entry to numerous museums: (Gaschurn museum of tourism, Schruns folklore museum, monastery museum in Bartholomäberg, Silbertal mining museum, winter sports collection in Tschagguns, Klostertal forest museum, Bludenz municipal museum, Paarhof Buacher in Bürserberg)
- 25 % discount off the regular fares of Vorarlberg Lines tours – boat trips on Lake Constance in the Bay of Bregenz (one hour) and Three Countries Panorama tour (two hours).