{"id":1087,"date":"2026-06-07T19:45:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T17:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/item\/flims-laax\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T11:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T09:04:10","slug":"flims-laax","status":"publish","type":"citadela-item","link":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/item\/flims-laax\/","title":{"rendered":"Flims-Laax &#038; Caumasee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size:1.15em;line-height:1.6;color:#3a352f;\">The Flims-Laax region is one of the largest ski areas in Switzerland and in summer is known for the turquoise Caumasee, one of the most beautiful bathing lakes in the Alps. Nearby runs the Rhine Gorge Ruinaulta, an impressive canyon of the Vorderrhein.<\/p>\n<h2>Highlights<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>One of the largest ski areas in Switzerland<\/li>\n<li>Turquoise bathing lake Caumasee<\/li>\n<li>Rhine Gorge Ruinaulta (Swiss Grand Canyon)<\/li>\n<li>Known for freestyle and snowparks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Good to know<\/h2>\n<table class=\"at-vergleich\" style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:14px;\">\n<tr style=\"background:#ffffff;\">\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;width:34%;font-weight:600;\">Region<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;\">Surselva, Graub\u00fcnden<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background:#fafaf8;\">\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;width:34%;font-weight:600;\">Lake<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;\">Caumasee<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background:#ffffff;\">\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;width:34%;font-weight:600;\">Nature<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;\">Rheinschlucht Ruinaulta<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background:#fafaf8;\">\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;width:34%;font-weight:600;\">Winter<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;\">large ski area<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<h2>Practical info<\/h2>\n<div style=\"background:#f3f1ec;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;border-radius:10px;padding:18px 20px;\">\n<p style=\"margin:6px 0;line-height:1.55;\"><strong style=\"color:#f25353;\">Getting there:<\/strong> Train to Chur, then by bus; through the Ruinaulta also by train.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:6px 0;line-height:1.55;\"><strong style=\"color:#f25353;\">Best time:<\/strong> Bathing June to September; skiing December to April.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:6px 0;line-height:1.55;\"><strong style=\"color:#f25353;\">Cost:<\/strong> Lake partly with admission, mountain railways payable (please verify).<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:6px 0;line-height:1.55;\"><strong style=\"color:#f25353;\">Safety:<\/strong> Bathing lake unproblematic; avalanche situation in winter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:12px 0 4px;\"><strong style=\"color:#f25353;\">Tips:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top:0;\">\n<li>The Rhine Gorge can be experienced by hiking, train or raft<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Background &amp; History<\/h2>\n<p>Flims and Laax lie on a sunny terrace high above the Vorderrhein in Graub\u00fcnden, a region where Rhaeto-Romansh is still spoken to this day, that ancient language which emerged from the Latin of Roman times. The whole landscape rests on one of the largest rockslides of the Alps: around nine thousand years ago an enormous mass of rock broke from the mountain and filled the valley, an event whose traces still mark the terrain today. From this body of debris, water and forest shaped those gentle hills and hidden hollows in which the lakes of the area lie.<\/p>\n<p>The most famous among them is Lake Cauma, a brilliantly turquoise-green body of water in the middle of the forest, fed by underground springs, whose colour calls to mind southern lagoons. The surrounding woodland, the Flims Forest, is among the most extensive continuous mountain forests of the region. While Flims was long a tranquil mountain village and an early spa resort, where as early as the 19th century the pure mountain air was praised as a remedy, Laax developed in the 20th century into a pioneer of modern winter and freestyle sport and into a meeting place of the international snowboard scene. Embedded in this ski area lies the rockslide landscape of the Flimserstein, an impressive natural monument that draws geologists from all over the world, because here the mechanics of a vast rockslide can be studied as if in an open book. Thus in Flims and Laax ancient linguistic ground, young mountain culture and an extraordinary geological history meet in an impressive way.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#221c1a;color:#fff;border-radius:10px;padding:18px 22px;margin-top:28px;\"><strong style=\"font-size:1.08em;\">Related<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:6px 0 12px;color:#d8d2cc;font-size:14px;\">To make your trip run smoothly , our guides and gear tips for this destination:<\/p>\n<div style=\"display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;gap:10px;\"><a href=\"\/en\/schichtenprinzip-bekleidung\/\" style=\"display:inline-block;background:#f25353;color:#fff;padding:9px 16px;border-radius:6px;text-decoration:none;font-weight:600;font-size:14px;\">Layering guide for clothing \u2192<\/a><a href=\"\/en\/packliste-tages-bergwanderung\/\" style=\"display:inline-block;background:#f25353;color:#fff;padding:9px 16px;border-radius:6px;text-decoration:none;font-weight:600;font-size:14px;\">Day-tour packing list \u2192<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Die Region Flims-Laax ist eines der gr\u00f6\u00dften Skigebiete der Schweiz und im Sommer f\u00fcr den t\u00fcrkisgr\u00fcnen Caumasee bekannt, einen der sch\u00f6nsten Badeseen der Alpen. Nahebei verl\u00e4uft die Rheinschlucht Ruinaulta, ein eindrucksvoller Canyon des Vorderrheins. Highlights Eines der gr\u00f6\u00dften Skigebiete der Schweiz T\u00fcrkisgr\u00fcner Badesee Caumasee Rheinschlucht Ruinaulta (Swiss Grand Canyon) Bekannt f\u00fcr Freestyle und Snowparks Gut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1116,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","citadela-item-category":[39,36,33],"citadela-item-location":[66],"class_list":["post-1087","citadela-item","type-citadela-item","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","citadela-item-category-ausflugsziele-sehenswuerdigkeiten","citadela-item-category-seen-baden","citadela-item-category-ski-winter","citadela-item-location-graubuenden-engadin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-item\/1087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-item"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/citadela-item"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1087"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-item\/1087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1495,"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-item\/1087\/revisions\/1495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"citadela-item-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-item-category?post=1087"},{"taxonomy":"citadela-item-location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-item-location?post=1087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}