- Type
- Mountain railway
- Town / canton
- Engelberg, Obwalden
- Visitors
- 900 000 · 2024 · estimate — verify before use
- Upper-tier houses in Engelberg
- Kempinski Palace Engelberg, Hotel Terrace Engelberg, Ski Lodge Engelberg
- Position in the ranking
- 3 of 36 sites on file · above it stands Jungfraujoch — Top of Europe with 1 058 600; below it Rigi Bahnen with 900 000
In Obwalden
Engelberg holds nearly the whole stock of the canton: Titlis year-round, the Kempinski Palace as the single top step. Melchsee-Frutt is the second, smaller centre. Outside those two there is effectively no upper tier.
- Seasonality
- Two peaks: Dec–Mar and Jul–Aug
- Access
- Engelberg is the terminus of the branch from Lucerne, 43 minutes. Beyond that, cableways only. Melchsee-Frutt is reached by funicular from Stöckalp and is closed to cars in winter.
- From Bern by rail
- 1 h 45, with a change
- Destinations nearby
- Engelberg, Titlis, Melchsee-Frutt, Sachseln, Flüeli-Ranft
- Events in the canton
- Silvesterspringen (Dec)
- Upper-tier stock
- 4 properties, 2 in the MICHELIN Key selection, 331 rooms recorded
Estimate from secondary sources; treat as an order of magnitude and confirm with the operator before quoting it. Switzerland keeps no national attendance register, so every figure of this kind is closed site by site. Verified 28 August 2026.