As of: 4 August 2026

Wild camping on the Niderbauen Chulm: a court order covers the whole Emmetten flank and bans bivouacking by name

The cantonal border runs over the summit cairn and the summit point is Uri by about a metre, which sounds like an opening. It is not one: every pitch on this mountain is on the Nidwalden side, inside a prohibition the Kantonsgericht published in 2024.

Leon Helg
Leon Helg · Legal situation checked in August 2026 · Published 4 August 2026
What do these mean?

Illegal A specific rule bans it, usually with a fine, and it can be enforced. Sleep somewhere else.

Not allowed No real place to camp here. A gated site, a developed area, or nowhere sensible to lie down, even if no fine is attached.

It depends You can sleep here, but there's a condition first: ask the landowner, book a spot, stay inside a set zone, or use a bivvy instead of a tent. The report says which.

Tolerated No rule clearly allows or bans it, but a single night is accepted in practice and nobody enforces against it. Normal for high bivouacs above the treeline.

Legal Camping one night is fine here. Either a rule allows it, or we checked every law and found nothing against it. Still: pitch late, leave early, no trace.

What "wild camping" means here: one night. A small tent or a bivvy bag, up towards evening, gone in the morning. Not a base camp, not a camper van. Most Swiss bans are written against camping with a tent, which leaves a tentless bivouac in a grey zone, and that grey zone is where a careful sleeper usually lands. Not here: the court order names "das Biwakieren" in its operative clause, so the distinction that rescues a sleeper elsewhere does nothing on the Niderbauen. A genuine emergency bivouac in real distress is a separate thing and is never fined. The full difference: wild camping vs bivouacking.

The court order that names bivouacking

Wild camping on the Niderbauen Chulm is not a grey zone, and the rule that decides it is not a communal reglement. It is a gerichtliches Verbot, a judicial prohibition: a landowner applies to the cantonal court, the court publishes the prohibition and has it posted on the ground, and from then on it binds everyone who is not entitled to be on that parcel. The Kantonsgericht Nidwalden issued this one in Stans on 3 June 2024, case ZE 24 140, and published it in the cantonal Amtsblatt three weeks later.

"Auf Verlangen der Grundeigentümerin des Grundstückes Liegenschaft Nr. 3, Grundbuch Emmetten, Niederbauen, Plan Nr. 10, wird allen Unberechtigten verboten: das Campieren, Zelten, Biwakieren und Übernachten, das Entfachen von Feuern ausserhalb der Feuerstellen, das Ablagern, Deponieren und Liegenlassen von Abfällen und Kehricht, das Verrichten der Notdurft auf diesem Grundstück."Kantonsgericht Nidwalden, Verbot (ZE 24 140), Amtsblatt des Kantons Nidwalden Nr. 26 of 26 June 2024, p. 1303. At the landowner's request, everyone not entitled is forbidden to camp, to tent, to bivouac and to overnight on this parcel, to light fires outside the fire places, to dump or leave rubbish, and to relieve themselves there.

Read the first line of that list again. "Das Campieren, Zelten, Biwakieren und Übernachten." The order names bivouacking on its own, next to camping and tenting, and then adds overnighting as a catch-all. That is the whole ball game. Most communal camping bans in Switzerland are written against tents and caravans, which leaves a tentless bivvy bag in a grey zone, and that grey zone is the argument that rescues a careful sleeper in plenty of other places. It does nothing here, because the court wrote the bivouac into the operative clause.2

The fine is CHF 2'000, and it moves only if the owner presses it. Clause 2 sets it out: "Widerhandlungen gegen dieses Verbot werden auf Antrag mit Busse bis Fr. 2'000.00 bestraft (Art. 258 Abs. 1 ZPO)." That is the standard cap for this instrument under Article 258 of the Civil Procedure Code, and "auf Antrag" means the landowner has to file a complaint. So this is not a ticket a ranger writes on the spot. It is a criminal complaint by an owner who has already been to court once, which is exactly the owner most likely to file a second time.4

The parcel is the mountain, not a corner of it. Liegenschaft Nr. 3, Grundbuch Emmetten measures 2'268'826 square metres, 226.9 hectares, and its boundary starts about a metre west of the summit point of the Niderbauen Chulm. It blankets the Emmetten flank west and south of the ridge. Every flat pitch on this mountain sits inside it, and the easy approach, the cable car and the alp paths from Emmetten, delivers you into it. The ground you would actually sleep on is the ground the order covers.3

The objection window is long closed. Clause 3 gave anyone who did not want to accept the prohibition 30 days from its publication and its posting on the parcel to file an Einsprache. No reasons were needed, and an objection would have made the prohibition ineffective against that person and forced the owner to sue. Publication was 26 June 2024, so the window shut at the end of July 2024. For anyone reading this now it is over, and the prohibition stands.4

Asking permission is not a route here. The Amtsblatt names only "die Grundeigentümerin" and does not identify her. The landowners are the Alpgenossen Niederbauen, named as such in the annual report of the cable car company that runs the mountain, and they are the party that went to court. So there is nobody left to ask: the yes was taken off the table by the people who would have to give it.5

The border runs over the summit, and it changes nothing

The cantonal border runs over the summit cairn, and the summit point is Uri by about a metre. That is not a figure of speech. The Uri and Nidwalden line crosses the top of the Niderbauen Chulm, and the summit point at 1'922.6 metres lies on the Uri side of it, in the commune of Seelisberg: 1.0 metre to the swissBOUNDARIES 2026 boundary and 1.04 metres to the boundary of the Emmetten parcel, two independent datasets agreeing to within four centimetres. Everything immediately west is Nidwalden, commune of Emmetten. Follow the line north through the summit and it doglegs, which is why the ground just south of the top is Nidwalden at 10 to 60 metres out and flips back to Uri at 70 to 90.1

On the Uri side there really is no camping prohibition, and that was checked at all three levels rather than assumed. No federal ban reaches this ridge. Canton Uri has no cantonal camping provision. And the communal route does not close it either: the CHF 150 camping item in the Uri Ordnungsbussenreglement is parasitic on "das jeweilige Reglement", and the norm behind it, Article 34 of the Uri nature and heritage protection act, punishes the breach of a Schutzmassnahme that has to be enacted through a Quartierplan or a Zonenplan and annotated in the Grundbuch. An inventory entry is not one of those. So no Uri fine attaches at this summit.9

And it still is not a place to sleep. The Uri crown at the top is about a metre wide before the ground becomes Nidwalden and the prohibition starts. This is a legal curiosity worth knowing, not a plan you can carry out. There is no pitch on a metre of summit rock, and one step west, or any walk down to something flat enough to lie on, puts you inside a court order that names bivouacking. We publish the border because it is true, not because it is a way through.

One limit we have to state. We could not exclude that a gerichtliches Verbot also covers the Uri parcel on the other side of the line. The federal eSHAB portal does not index the amtlicher Teil of a cantonal Amtsblatt, and the proof of that is this very Nidwalden notice, which does not appear there at all. Silence in the federal register is therefore not evidence that no Uri order exists. Treat the Uri sliver as unverified rather than as clear.9

Where you can legally sleep on this mountain

The honest answer starts with the beds, because this mountain has good ones and a cable car to reach them. The Niderbauen is a day-trip mountain with a lift, a Berggasthaus, working alps and paragliding traffic, and the lawful ways to spend a night here are indoors on the ridge or on a designated pitch below it.

Where to sleep on and under the Niderbauen. Berggasthaus Niederbauen, at 1'575 m on the Emmetten flank, run by Familie Ineichen, 6376 Emmetten, 041 620 23 63, info@berggasthaus-niederbauen.ch. A Bergsuite, double rooms and multi-bed rooms, from CHF 79 per person a night with breakfast in a multi-bed room, closed Mondays and Tuesdays. It is reached in about eight minutes by the Luftseilbahn Niederbauen, Seelisbergstrasse 2, 6376 Emmetten, +41 41 620 33 40. Below the mountain on the Uri side, the Naturzeltplatz und Badi Seelisberg at the Seelisbergsee, Seelistrasse 4, 6377 Seelisberg, 041 820 35 96, zeltplatz@seelisberg.com, takes tents and nothing else, no campervans and no roof tents, roughly mid-May to early September, and dogs are not allowed on the site. That is a real tent night at the foot of the Niderbauen, and it is lawful.10

The one night outside that nobody fines is a genuine emergency bivouac. If injury, a sudden storm or darkness catches you out and you have to get through the night safely, that is an emergency, and it is a different question from a planned camp. Walking up in the evening with a tent or a bivvy bag for the sunset is a planned camp, and that is what clause 1 of the order forbids and what clause 2 prices at CHF 2'000.

No fire, and pack everything out. The same order forbids fires outside the fire places, forbids dumping or leaving rubbish, and forbids relieving yourself on the parcel. Those three lines are not decoration: they name exactly what the alp staff were finding up here. Use a gas stove, carry your rubbish down, and keep well away from the paths and the water.

Why the verdict is Illegal, and why the landscape inventory is not the reason

Three things put this beyond doubt. There is a named instrument: a gerichtliches Verbot of the Kantonsgericht Nidwalden, case ZE 24 140, decided on 3 June 2024 and published on 26 June 2024. It names the exact ground: Liegenschaft Nr. 3, Grundbuch Emmetten, 226.9 hectares covering the Emmetten flank. And it names both the conduct and the price: camping, tenting, bivouacking and overnighting, fine up to CHF 2'000 on complaint. A verdict of Illegal has to carry a named norm and a sanction, and here both stand in the same document.5

The order exists because of the numbers, and the owners tried the soft way first. Up to fifty people a night were sleeping out on the Niderbauen at peak. The cable car company's 2023 annual report records that the parties around the table agreed "dass vorerst keine Verbote eingeführt werden sollen", that they would first try to get guests to behave through suitable measures, and that harder measures, "ein richterliches Verbot des Campierens im freien Gelände", could still be obtained if that did not work. It did not work. The 2024 report records that the Alpgenossen Niederbauen obtained the order. This is a place that lost its tolerance because of volume.6

The federal landscape inventory covers the summit, and it is not the reason. The pin sits inside BLN object 1606, "Vierwaldstättersee mit Kernwald, Bürgenstock und Rigi", listed under the current VBLN (SR 451.11) of 29 March 2017, and the object description names the crest from the Niderbauen Chulm to the Oberbauenstock and its Schrattenkalk karst. That description carries no camping, tenting or bivouac provision anywhere, and it could not: a BLN listing binds authorities performing federal tasks and creates no offence a walker can commit. Article 24a Abs. 1 lit. b of the Natur- und Heimatschutzgesetz lists the articles whose implementing rules carry criminal sanctions, and the inventory articles are not on that list, while Article 24 punishes destroying or seriously damaging a protected biotope, which one night in a tent is not. BAFU says the same in its own explanatory report to the VBLN: the inventories bind authorities directly at federal level only, and cantons and communes have to take them into account in a suitable way.7

Nothing else fires here either, which is why the court order carries the whole verdict. At the pin there is no federal game reserve, no wildlife rest zone, no floodplain, no bog, no amphibian site, no dry meadow and no park. On the Uri side fourteen cantonal protection layers come back empty; the nearest Naturschutzzone is the Trockenwiese Egglen at 412 metres, the nearest Uri Wildruhezone is 8'261 metres away and the nearest Uri Jagdbanngebiet 4'395. On the Nidwalden side Emmetten zones this ground as farmland, forest and Übriges Gemeindegebiet with a Gefahrenzone 1 overlay, which is a hazard designation and not a protection one, and the nearest Wildruhezonen, Scheidegg at 1'341 metres and Brennwald at 1'670, are both seasonal and both away from the summit.8

  • Berggasthaus Niederbauen, 1'575 m, 6376 Emmetten, 041 620 23 63. Bergsuite, double rooms and multi-bed rooms, from CHF 79 per person with breakfast in a multi-bed room, closed Mondays and Tuesdays. Reached by the Luftseilbahn Niederbauen, +41 41 620 33 40.
  • Naturzeltplatz und Badi Seelisberg at the Seelisbergsee, Seelistrasse 4, 6377 Seelisberg, 041 820 35 96. Tents only, no campervans and no roof tents, roughly mid-May to early September. A lawful tent night at the foot of the mountain.
  • Fulberg, 1'688 m, about 1.9 kilometres south-west and still in Emmetten, but on a different parcel: the cadastre puts it on Liegenschaft Nr. 1, outside the prohibition. Open alpine pasture above the local forest line, where a single respectful night sits in the tolerated bracket. The ridge is the Genossenkorporation Emmetten's alp, so the honest route is the owner's yes, and you keep off the moor patches. The Scheidegg wildlife rest zone edge applies only 15 December to 15 June, so it is dormant in the camping season.
  • Not the Emmetten flank, at any height. Liegenschaft Nr. 3 covers 226.9 hectares from about a metre west of the summit point down across the alps, and the order forbids camping, tenting, bivouacking and overnighting on all of it, up to CHF 2'000 on complaint.
  • Not the summit either. The Uri ground at the top is about a metre wide before the prohibition starts, so there is no pitch there in any real sense, and we could not exclude that the Uri parcel carries an order of its own.
  • No fire and no trace anywhere on this mountain. The same order names fires outside the fire places, dumped rubbish and human waste, which is what the alp staff were dealing with before it was issued.

General rules for wild camping

This applies wherever you are genuinely allowed to sleep, which around the Niderbauen means the Berggasthaus on the ridge or the tent pitch at the Seelisbergsee, never the Emmetten flank. It is not legal text, it is decency and common sense on a working alp that already went to court once.

  • No fire. An open fire has no place in the mountains. A gas stove is enough.
  • Pitch late, strike early. Set up towards evening, gone again early. A bivouac is one night, not a base camp.
  • Leave no rubbish. Everything you carry up you carry down, organic scraps and toilet paper included.
  • At least 50 metres from any water for the big business, so you do not foul what people and livestock drink.
  • Stay small and quiet. A small group, no speaker, no drone, dogs on the lead, and the alp staff's word goes.

Disclaimer

This article reflects my research and assessment to the best of my knowledge, as of August 2026. It is based on the publicly accessible and official sources linked below. It does not replace legal advice and is not a binding statement of the current legal situation.

A judicial prohibition can be amended or lifted, cadastral boundaries and cantonal protection layers are updated, cantonal fire bans come and go through the summer, and mountain guesthouse and campsite seasons, services and prices change, so material written about this area earlier may be out of date. Before every tour, check the current sources yourself, respect the signs posted on the ground and the instructions of the alp staff. A genuine emergency bivouac in distress is a separate question from a planned camp. Anyone who spends the night outside bears responsibility for their own conduct and any consequences themselves. Hikebeast, Leon Helg and Saftladen GmbH accept no liability for decisions made on the basis of this text, and call on no one to break applicable law.

Frequently asked questions

Is wild camping allowed on the Niderbauen Chulm?
No, it is forbidden. The Kantonsgericht Nidwalden issued a judicial prohibition on 3 June 2024, case ZE 24 140, at the landowner's request, published in the cantonal Amtsblatt on 26 June 2024. It forbids camping, tenting, bivouacking and overnighting to everyone not entitled on Liegenschaft Nr. 3, Grundbuch Emmetten, a parcel of 226.9 hectares that covers the whole Emmetten flank of the mountain. The fine reaches CHF 2'000 and is prosecuted on the owner's complaint, under Article 258 paragraph 1 of the Civil Procedure Code.
The summit is in Uri, so can I sleep on the Uri side?
In practice no. The cantonal border does run over the summit and the summit point is in Uri, in the commune of Seelisberg, by about one metre, and canton Uri has no camping prohibition that reaches this ridge. But a metre of summit rock is not a pitch. Every usable piece of ground on this mountain, every flat spot and the whole easy approach, lies inside the Nidwalden parcel covered by the court order, and that order names bivouacking, so a bivvy bag does not get you out of it. We also could not exclude that the Uri parcel carries a judicial prohibition of its own, because the federal register does not index cantonal Amtsblatt notices of this kind.
Does the ban catch a bivvy bag, or only a tent?
It catches a bivvy bag too. The operative clause forbids 'das Campieren, Zelten, Biwakieren und Übernachten', so camping, tenting, bivouacking and overnighting are all named separately. That is unusual and it is decisive here: most communal camping bans in Switzerland are written against tents and caravans, which leaves a tentless bivouac in a grey zone. On the Niderbauen there is no such gap, because the court wrote the bivouac into the prohibition itself.
Can I ask the landowner for permission?
That is not a route here. The landowners are the party that applied for the prohibition. The Amtsblatt notice names only 'die Grundeigentümerin' without identifying her, and the attribution to the Alpgenossen Niederbauen comes from the annual report of the cable car company that operates on the mountain. Either way, the people whose yes you would need are the people who went to court to say no. The only formal way to escape the prohibition was an Einsprache within 30 days of publication, and that window closed at the end of July 2024.
Where can I sleep legally on the Niderbauen?
Indoors on the ridge, or in a tent at the lake below. The Berggasthaus Niederbauen sits at 1'575 metres on the Emmetten flank, 041 620 23 63, with a suite, double rooms and multi-bed rooms from CHF 79 per person including breakfast, closed Mondays and Tuesdays, reached by the Luftseilbahn Niederbauen on +41 41 620 33 40. Below the mountain, the Naturzeltplatz und Badi Seelisberg at the Seelisbergsee, Seelistrasse 4, 6377 Seelisberg, 041 820 35 96, takes tents only, roughly mid-May to early September. A genuine emergency bivouac in real distress is a separate matter and is never fined.
Leon Helg

Leon Helg

Swiss filmmaker and software developer. Spends his free time in the Swiss Alps and maps his favourite spots for Hikebeast. Posts as @leon.helg on Instagram and TikTok.

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Sources

  1. Federal geodata at the pin, WGS84 46.947699 / 8.556983, LV95 E 2'685'138 / N 1'200'230, elevation 1'922.6 m (geo.admin.ch reframe and height services). The swissBOUNDARIES 2026 layer puts the summit point in canton Uri, commune of Seelisberg, 1.0 m from the Uri and Nidwalden boundary; the boundary of cadastral parcel Emmetten Nr. 3 lies 1.04 m from the same point, so the two datasets agree to within 4 cm. The ground immediately west and south of the line is Nidwalden, commune of Emmetten. Walking the line north through the summit produces a dogleg, which is why the ground south of the summit is Nidwalden at 10 to 60 m and returns to Uri at 70 to 90 m. geo.admin.ch. ↩
  2. Verbot of the Kantonsgericht Nidwalden, case ZE 24 140, Stans, 3 June 2024, Der Präsident I: lic. iur. Marcus Schenker, published in the Amtsblatt des Kantons Nidwalden Nr. 26 of 26 June 2024, page 1303. Clause 1: "Auf Verlangen der Grundeigentümerin des Grundstückes Liegenschaft Nr. 3, Grundbuch Emmetten, Niederbauen, Plan Nr. 10, wird allen Unberechtigten verboten: das Campieren, Zelten, Biwakieren und Übernachten, das Entfachen von Feuern ausserhalb der Feuerstellen, das Ablagern, Deponieren und Liegenlassen von Abfällen und Kehricht, das Verrichten der Notdurft auf diesem Grundstück." Clause 2: "Widerhandlungen gegen dieses Verbot werden auf Antrag mit Busse bis Fr. 2'000.00 bestraft (Art. 258 Abs. 1 ZPO)." Clause 3 gives 30 days from publication and posting on the parcel to file an Einsprache, which needs no reasons, makes the prohibition ineffective against the objector and leaves enforcement to a court action under Art. 260 ZPO. Access note: the cantonal PDF link for this issue rotated when Nidwalden moved to its eAmtsblatt platform in 2025 and now returns 404, so the issue is linked here through an Internet Archive capture; three separate captures carry an identical content digest. web.archive.org. ↩
  3. Cadastral data for Liegenschaft Nr. 3, Grundbuch Emmetten, the parcel the prohibition names. Area 2'268'826 m², 226.9 hectares. Its boundary runs about 1.04 m west of the summit point of the Niderbauen Chulm and it covers the Emmetten flank west and south of the ridge, which is where the flat ground, the alps and the approach from the cable car are. Read from the cantonal cadastral service through the federal geoportal. geo.admin.ch. ↩
  4. Schweizerische Zivilprozessordnung (ZPO, SR 272), Art. 258 and Art. 260. Art. 258 Abs. 1 lets the holder of a right in rem apply to the court for a general prohibition against any interference, under the threat of a fine of up to CHF 2'000, prosecuted only on complaint. Art. 260 sets the objection: an Einsprache filed within 30 days of publication and of posting on the property needs no reasons and renders the prohibition ineffective against the objector, after which the applicant has to bring an action to enforce it. The Niderbauen prohibition was published on 26 June 2024, so that window closed at the end of July 2024. fedlex.admin.ch. ↩
  5. Luftseilbahn Niederbauen AG, Geschäftsbericht 2024, page 6, and Geschäftsbericht 2023, page 7. The 2024 report identifies the landowners: "Die Alpgenossen Niederbauen (Landeigentümer) haben ein gerichtliches Verbot gegen das Campieren auf den Alpen im Niederbauengebiet erwirken können." The 2023 report records the earlier step: the parties agreed "dass vorerst keine Verbote eingeführt werden sollen" and noted that harder measures, "ein richterliches Verbot des Campierens im freien Gelände", could still be obtained if that did not work. The Amtsblatt notice itself names only "der Grundeigentümerin" and does not identify her, so the attribution to the Alpgenossen Niederbauen rests on this company report and not on the court notice. niederbauen.ch. ↩
  6. Nidwaldner Zeitung, report on the Niderbauen camping prohibition by Manuel Kaufmann, 10 August 2024. Gives the scale that led to the order, "Bis zu 50 Menschen übernachteten an Spitzentagen unter freiem Himmel auf dem Niederbauen", and the CHF 2'000 fine now attached to camping there. Used for the volume and the public account of the escalation, not for the legal content, which comes from the Amtsblatt. nidwaldnerzeitung.ch. ↩
  7. Bundesinventar der Landschaften und Naturdenkmäler, object 1606 "Vierwaldstättersee mit Kernwald, Bürgenstock und Rigi", listed under the current VBLN, SR 451.11 of 29 March 2017, not the repealed 1977 version. The pin lies inside the object, whose description names the crest from the Niderbauen Chulm to the Oberbauenstock as a Teilraum boundary and the peak for its ammonite outcrops and Schrattenkalk karst, and which contains no camping, tenting or bivouac provision. A BLN listing binds authorities performing federal tasks and creates no offence a walker can commit: Art. 24a Abs. 1 lit. b of the Natur- und Heimatschutzgesetz (NHG, SR 451) enumerates the articles whose implementing provisions carry criminal sanctions, "Artikel 16, 18, 18a, 18b, 18c, 19, 20, 23c, 23d und 25a", and the inventory articles are absent from that enumeration, while Art. 24 punishes destroying or seriously damaging a protected biotope. BAFU's own Erläuterungen zur VBLN put it plainly: "Die Inventare nach Artikel 5 NHG sind nur auf Bundesebene direkt behördenverbindlich. Durch die nachgelagerten staatlichen Ebenen (Kantone und Gemeinden) sind sie in geeigneter Weise 'zu berücksichtigen'." bafu.admin.ch. ↩
  8. geoadmin identify at the pin against the federal and cantonal protection layers, run with invalid-layer control errors so that an empty answer is a real answer and not a silent miss. Federal layers: no game reserve, no wildlife rest zone, no floodplain, no raised or fen bog, no amphibian spawning site, no dry meadow and no park at the point. Uri side: fourteen cantonal protection layers return nothing, the nearest Naturschutzzone is NS24 "Trockenwiese, Egglen" at 412 m, the nearest Uri Wildruhezone is 8'261 m away and the nearest Uri Jagdbanngebiet 4'395 m. Nidwalden side: seventeen sample points within about 700 m return no Naturschutzzone and no Landschaftsschutzzone in the Emmetten Nutzungsplanung, which zones this ground as Landwirtschaftszone, Wald and Übriges Gemeindegebiet with a Gefahrenzone 1 overlay, a hazard designation rather than a protection one. The nearest Nidwalden Wildruhezonen are Scheidegg, 1'341 m to the south-west, with a Zutrittsverbot from 15 December to 15 June, and Brennwald, 1'670 m away, from 15 December to 30 April. geo.admin.ch. ↩
  9. Uri law at the summit, checked at three levels rather than assumed. No federal camping prohibition reaches this ridge, and canton Uri has no cantonal camping provision. The CHF 150 camping item in the Uri Ordnungsbussenreglement is parasitic on "das jeweilige Reglement", and its backing norm, Art. 34 of the Uri Gesetz über den Natur- und Heimatschutz (KNHG), punishes the breach of a Schutzmassnahme that has to be enacted by Quartierplan or Zonenplan and annotated in the Grundbuch; an inventory entry is not such a measure, so no Uri fine attaches at this summit. Open item stated as a limit: a Uri-side judicial prohibition on the Uri parcel could not be excluded, because the federal eSHAB portal does not index the amtlicher Teil of a cantonal Amtsblatt. The proof is this very Nidwalden notice, which is absent from eSHAB, so silence there is not evidence of absence. ur.ch. ↩
  10. Accommodation on and below the mountain, from the operators' own pages and the commune's business directory. Berggasthaus Niederbauen at 1'575 m on the Emmetten flank, Familie Ineichen, 6376 Emmetten, 041 620 23 63, info@berggasthaus-niederbauen.ch, with a Bergsuite, double rooms and multi-bed rooms, from CHF 79 per person a night including breakfast in a multi-bed room, closed Mondays and Tuesdays. It is reached in about eight minutes by the Luftseilbahn Niederbauen, Seelisbergstrasse 2, 6376 Emmetten, +41 41 620 33 40. At the foot of the mountain on the Uri side, the Naturzeltplatz und Badi Seelisberg at the Seelisbergsee, Seelistrasse 4, 6377 Seelisberg, 041 820 35 96, zeltplatz@seelisberg.com, run by the Treib-Seelisberg-Bahn, takes tents only, no campervans and no roof tents, roughly from mid-May to early September, with dogs not allowed on the site. berggasthaus-niederbauen.ch. ↩