Driving
The roads, tours and circuits worth the drive in Switzerland.
Roads
Driving road
Furka Pass
14 mi23 km~26 min drive
Cinematic hairpin pass past the Rhone Glacier, immortalised in the James Bond chase in Goldfinger.
Driving road
Grimsel Pass
16 mi26 km~30 min drive
Granite-and-reservoir climb linking the Bernese Oberland to the Valais, superb when paired with Furka and Susten.
Driving road
Susten Pass
28 mi45 km~53 min drive
Beautifully engineered 1940s road regarded as one of the smoothest, most scenic alpine drives.
Driving road
Gotthard Pass Via Tremola
16 mi26 km~30 min drive
The cobbled Tremola on the south side is the longest historic paved road monument in Switzerland.
Driving road
Klausen Pass
29 mi47 km~54 min drive
Historic hillclimb-racing road connecting Glarus and Uri, once host to the legendary pre-war Klausenrennen.
Driving road
Umbrail Pass
8 mi13 km~15 min drive
Switzerland's highest paved pass, a mostly single-track climb feeding straight into Italy's Stelvio.
Driving road
Grosse Scheidegg
16 mi26 km~30 min drive
Spectacular Eiger-facing route restricted to buses, making it a rare quiet, car-limited alpine road.
Driving road
Nufenen Pass
24 mi39 km~45 min drive
The highest pass road lying entirely within Switzerland, a bleak, dramatic Valais to Ticino crossing.
Driving road
Grand St. Bernard Pass
16 mi26 km~30 min drive
Ancient trans-alpine route past the famous hospice and its rescue dogs, open only in summer.
Driving road
Simplon Pass
25 mi40 km~47 min drive
Napoleonic military road with wide sweeping curves linking the Valais to Italy's Domodossola.
Driving road
San Bernardino Pass
22 mi35 km~41 min drive
Old pass road climbing above the modern motorway tunnel, connecting German and Italian-speaking Graubünden.
Driving road
Bernina Pass
21 mi34 km~39 min drive
High Engadine crossing beside the UNESCO Bernina railway, glacier views on the road to Italy.
Circuits
Race circuit
Circuit de Lignieres
Switzerland's best-known permanent asphalt circuit, used for driver training, track days and karting.
Race circuit
Course de cote St-Ursanne Les Rangiers
The country's flagship international hillclimb, a fast Jura mountain course run every August.
Race circuit
Bergrennen Gurnigel
Long-running Bernese hillclimb and a Swiss championship round climbing toward the Gurnigel pass.
Race circuit
Bergrennen Reitnau
Popular Aargau hillclimb and championship fixture drawing large crowds each June.
Race circuit
Bergrennen Oberhallau
Vineyard-flanked hillclimb billed as a family motorsport festival near the German border.
Race circuit
Bergrennen Hemberg
Toggenburg hillclimb and Swiss championship counter run over a technical uphill route each June.