Arosa - Townscape

With excellent facilities for walkers and climbers in summer and skiers in winter, provision for a great variety of sports and more than 150km/93mi of footpaths, Arosa has developed into a leading resort.

Other features of interest are the Late Gothic church (1493) in Inner-Arosa and in summer a miniature railroad operates at the Arosa Kulm Hotel.

Arosa is an attractive town, with hotels dispersed about the beautiful sheltered valley and numerous small lakes. The tree-line passes through the resort, so that the skiing areas are almost completely open. The road from Chur runs from the Obersee (Upper Lake, 1,740 m/5,709ft; rowing boats), beside the railroad station, above the Untersee (Lower Lake 1,694 m/5,558ft, in a charming wooded setting, past the Kursaal and up above the tree-line to the Alpine meadows of Inner-Arosa, sloping gently uphill. Driving is prohibited in the town after dark.