Mountain biking in Grisons

Grisons (Graubünden) is Switzerland's largest canton and, for many riders, the beating heart of alpine mountain biking. Nowhere else packs this many vertical metres, lifts and built trails onto one map. The character is clear: plenty of flow, clean berms, jumps in every size – yet a genuine high-alpine backdrop with three-thousanders instead of gentle forest roads. If bike parks and dense trail networks are your thing, this is the place.

The centrepiece is Bike Kingdom Lenzerheide – host of the Downhill World Cup and a huge trail network that runs from the beginner-friendly FLOWline all the way to the brutal World Cup STRAIGHTline. Around it sit heavyweights like Flims Laax, home of the famous Runca Trail, and Davos Klosters. Add Chur as the rail hub with its own local-mountain park. Freeriders, enduro riders and families all find their terrain here – often on the same mountain.

The practical bit: many destinations share one lift-pass network, getting here by train is un-fussily Swiss, and the altitude keeps trails ridable through high summer. Grisons is no longer an insider tip – but it delivers, whether you're rolling your first flow trail or want to put a World Cup line under your tyres.