Grand Tour
The Alpine Crown
Three days over the greatest passes of Switzerland and Italy, ending on the Stelvio.
There is no finer concentration of driving roads on earth than the passes within two hours of Andermatt, and this tour strings the best of them into three unhurried days. You start with the classic three-pass loop the Swiss treat as a rite of passage, head east through the Engadine on roads the Tour de Suisse made famous, and finish on the most celebrated climb in the world.
The rhythm is deliberate: big mornings on the passes, short afternoons, and overnights in towns that are good at dinner. Every road here is hand-checked, and the season window is honest. Go too early in June and the highest cols can still be walled with snow; go in early October and you will have the first larches turning gold and empty hairpins.
The Andermatt three
Overnight: AndermattThe canonical loop, run clockwise from Andermatt: over the Furka to Gletsch, down the Grimsel to Innertkirchen, and home over the Susten. Three giants before dinner.
East through the Engadine
Overnight: ZernezOut of Andermatt over the Oberalp, then a flowing run down the young Rhine to Chur. The Albula, shadowing its railway's famous stone viaducts, drops you into the Engadine at La Punt; finish with an out-and-back over the Fluela's high wilderness from Susch before the short run to Zernez.
The Stelvio finale
Overnight: BormioThrough the Swiss National Park on the Ofen Pass, then over the Umbrail to join the big one just below its summit. Descend the 48 numbered hairpins to Prato, double back over the top, and drop the western ramp into Bormio for a night in its thermal baths.
