As of: 24 August 2026

Wild camping on the Vilan

A night on the Vilan is allowed. The summit belongs to Seewis im Prättigau, which has no camping rule above its forest, so there is nobody to ask. North and west it changes: two communes with a camping ban start a few metres from the cairn.

Leon Helg
Leon Helg · Legal situation checked in August 2026 · Published 24 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; whether a single night also falls under them depends on the exact wording, so this article checks that wording. The full difference: wild camping vs bivouacking.

Three communes meet at the cairn, and only one of them lets you sleep

Wild camping on the Vilan is a question about a boundary, and not the one you would expect. There is no national border here and no protected area. There is a corner where three communal territories meet, and it runs straight through the summit.

The mapped high point sits at LV95 2'764'565 / 1'209'105, WGS84 47.01257 / 9.60313, 2'376 m. That point is in Seewis im Prättigau. Walking outward from it on eight bearings and bisecting the commune geometry to sub-metre resolution gives the picture in numbers:2

  • 1.9 m west: Malans.
  • 2.7 m north-west and 3.3 m north: Jenins.
  • 15.9 m north-east: Jenins again.
  • 601 m south-west: Malans.
  • East, south-east and south: still Seewis at 1'200 m.

That is the whole article in one list. The cairn is Seewis, the ground you can lie on facing the sunrise is Seewis, and the two directions that look most inviting from the top, the gentle shoulder north and the drop towards the Älpli west, are not.

Why 1.9 metres matters when nobody is measuring. It does not, on the night. Nobody is going to survey your groundsheet, and a difference of two metres is inside the noise of any map you will have with you. It matters because the direction is not symmetrical. If you drift, you drift downhill and off the dome, and downhill from the cairn to the north and west is where the other two communes are. Sleeping east and south of the top is not a legal nicety, it is the way to make the answer obvious on the ground without thinking about it again.

On the Seewis side, three layers and not one of them prohibits it

An absence is only worth something if you can say what was actually read. Here is each layer, named.

Federal. Queried on 24 August 2026 at four points: the summit, the recommended bench to the east-south-east, and 100 m into Malans and into Jenins. Every inventory came back empty at all four: no hunting-ban district, no wildlife rest zone, no BLN landscape, no mire or moor landscape, no floodplain, no dry-meadow object, no bird reserve, no Emerald site, no park of national importance. A ring of 25 points out to 3 km returned no hunting-ban district and no rest zone either, in 48 clean queries. Two controls make that a real zero rather than a broken query: a deliberately invalid layer id surfaced as an HTTP 400 in every run, and a positive control point in the Kiental returned its hunting-ban district as expected. With no Jagdbanngebiet anywhere near, the federal tent ban in VEJ Art. 5 para. 1 lit. e has nothing here to attach to.1

Cantonal. Graubünden has no camping norm for the public at all. The planning act, the planning ordinance, the cantonal police act, the hunting act and its ordinance, the forest act and both nature and heritage acts were pulled in full from the cantonal law portal and searched, with control terms counted per act so that a zero cannot be a broken pipeline. The only article in Bündner law headed "Campieren" is Art. 13 of the hunting operating rules, and its opening words settle who it binds:

"Für die Ausübung der Jagd"Jagdbetriebsvorschriften des Kantons Graubünden, BR 740.025, Art. 13 "Campieren und Biwakieren": tents, tarpaulins and overnighting in vehicles are permitted only on marked sites, for the exercise of the hunt. It binds hunters, not hikers.

That article is worth more as evidence than as a rule. The canton knows exactly how to write a camping ban, wrote one for hunters, and wrote none for everybody else. One near miss worth naming so you do not trip over it: the cantonal planning ordinance does mention tents, in its list of structures that need no building permit, alongside festival marquees and igloo villages in ski areas. That is law about Bauten und Anlagen and it says nothing about a hiker's single night.3

Communal. Seewis im Prättigau has never had a Polizeigesetz. Its published collection runs to 30 acts and every one of them was downloaded and read for this article. Ten had no text layer at all and were put through optical character recognition at 300 dpi, including one that had to be rotated first, because a scan that a text extractor cannot read looks exactly like a law that says nothing. Every file ends up with a real word count behind it.5

And there is nobody to ask. Graubünden has nothing resembling the Appenzell Innerrhoden consent regime, where a tent needs the landowner's agreement by ordinance, and Seewis operates no permit scheme. No consent makes this lawful and none is required for it, which is why the verdict is legal rather than restricted. The Civil Code's access right to forest and pasture is not what carries it either: ZGB Art. 699 is a right of access and never a right to spend the night.10

The Seewis rules that do exist, and the two communes next door that do prohibit it

Saying "no rule" without naming the rules that do exist would be sloppy. Three things in Seewis law are real and fined, and none of them reaches a night on the summit.

1. The forest camping ban. The commune's forest act of 2001 says it in five words:

"Das Campieren im Wald ist verboten."Waldgesetz der Gemeinde Seewis (GWaG 2001), Art. 25. Art. 27 punishes breaches with fines of CHF 100 to 5'000 alongside full damages.

This is the one Seewis norm that would genuinely catch a camper, and it catches them on the walk-in from the village, roughly 600 vertical metres and more below the top. Above the trees it has nothing to say to you. One honest note on the wording: the operative verb is "Campieren" alone, not Lagern and not Biwakieren, so on the literal text it does not reach a tentless bivouac. That is the reading, not a plan I would build on.6

2. The Flurverbot. This is the closest thing in Seewis law to a summer rule about open ground, and because the Vilan is grass rather than rock it deserves quoting rather than waving away:

"Das Betreten und Befahren von fremden Wiesen und Äckern ist während der Vegetationszeit verboten. Diese dauert in der Regel vom 1. Mai bis 30. September."Flur- und Dorfverordnung der Gemeinde Seewis, Art. 4 "Flurverbot".

It does not reach the summit, and the ordinance says so itself. Art. 1 defines the Fluren as Tal- und Bergwiesen, Äcker und Gärten, the meadows that get mown and the fields that get sown. Art. 8 then treats Alpen und Allmenden as the separate category that those Fluren are fenced off from. At 2'376 m you are on summer grazing, which is alp, not Flur. And the operative verb is entering and driving rather than overnighting: read wide enough to cover the Vilan it would ban the marked hiking trail that crosses it.7

3. The wildlife rest zones. Seewis has a Gesetz betreffend Wildruhezonen from 2010, but the season runs 1 February to 30 April and the commune's zone sits down around the village. The geodata sweep found no rest zone of any commune within 3 km of the summit.7

Now the two communes at the other side of the cairn. Both have a Polizeigesetz, and both wrote almost the same sentence into it.

"Auf öffentlichem Grund ist das Campieren in Zelten, Wohnmobilen und dergleichen verboten."Malans Polizeigesetz 93-00, Art. 17, and Jenins Polizeigesetz, Art. 16. The two texts are near-identical; only the exception differs.

Malans, 1.9 m west. Polizeigesetz 93-00, adopted 10 December 2015 and partially revised on 27 March 2024, in force since 1 July 2024. Art. 17 adds a way out: "Ausnahmen bedürfen einer Bewilligung der Gemeinde." So there is a door, and it is the commune's front desk. Art. 37 sets fines up to CHF 10'000 in ordinary proceedings and Art. 38 provides for a fixed-penalty list capped at CHF 300. That list is not published, so the honest numbers for Malans are the statutory ceilings rather than a tariff.8

Jenins, 3.3 m north. Polizeigesetz Art. 16 carries a narrower exception: only places the Gemeindevorstand has specially designated, which means no individual permit to ask for. And Jenins does publish its tariff:

"Campieren auf öffentlichem Grund ohne Bewilligung · CHF 300.00"Ordnungsbussenliste der Politischen Gemeinde Jenins, Ziffer 9, referring to Art. 16 of the communal police act. Ziffer 9 was amended by the Gemeindevorstand on 7 May 2024 and took effect immediately.

CHF 300 is the statutory maximum a fixed penalty can be, so Jenins has priced camping at the ceiling, and it revisited that number in 2024 rather than leaving an old figure to gather dust.9

Is the alp up there really "public ground"? Both communes answer that themselves. Malans's Gesetz über das Alp- und Weidwesen lists Aelpli among the alps and home pastures owned by the Politische Gemeinde Malans, and Ober Älpli is 697 m from the summit. Jenins's Alp- und Weidegesetz lists Fadella among the alps owned by the Politische Gemeinde Jenins, and that is the ground on its side of the ridge. The camping bans are scoped to public ground, and the ground next to the cairn is exactly that.89

Two overlays you will see on the map and can set aside. The summit sits in a Landwirtschaftszone and in a Landschaftsschutzzone under Art. 34 of the cantonal planning act, plus a communal Planungszone about the building zone. The landscape zone bars new Bauten und Anlagen; a tent struck at dawn is not a Baute, and none of these carries a camping provision of any kind. They are worth naming only because anyone who opens the cadastre will see them and wonder.4

Where to actually sleep, and why the flattest ground is the wrong answer

The summit is a broad grassy dome, not a summit block. Trip reports describe earthy, easy paths and room at the top to settle in, and the height model agrees: from 2'375 m at the cairn the ground falls about 80 m over the next 200 m to the east, which is a walkable slope rather than a face. There is space to lie down at the top itself, and doing so keeps you in Seewis.2

Then the trap. Sample the terrain on a 25 metre grid out to 225 m and compute the slope at every node, and the flattest ground anywhere near the summit is 1.4 degrees at 2'334 m, 103 metres north-north-east. It is the obvious place to pitch and it is the wrong one: that is Jenins, the CHF 300 side, and the boundary is another 100 m beyond it, so you would have no way of noticing.2

The Seewis answer is the bench to the east-south-east. LV95 2'764'765 / 1'208'980, 2'288 m, 236 metres from the cairn on a bearing of roughly 115 degrees. It measures 3.9 degrees, so nearly as flat as the Jenins patch, it is 87 m below the top and out of the wind that funnels over the ridge, and it has 180 metres of Seewis ground in every direction. That margin is the point. If you want to be higher, the shelf at 2'311 m about 190 m east-north-east works too, but it is only 40 m clear of the boundary.2

Carry water. There is none at the summit and none on the bench. The nearest reliable tap is at the Restaurant Älpli, 1.1 km away and about 570 m lower, and it keeps the cable car's hours.11

Getting up there, and the detail that catches people out. The Älplibahn runs from Malans to the Älpli at 1'801 m, daily from 14 May to 15 November 2026, Monday to Friday 08:00 to 17:00 and weekends 07:00 to 18:00, every 15 minutes, CHF 14 single and CHF 20 return for adults. Reservation is compulsory, by telephone on 081 322 47 64, which is unusual enough for a cable car that it is worth writing down. From the top station the summit is about two hours. The catch for an overnight: the last descent is 17:00 on a weekday, so a bivouac night means walking back down to Malans in the morning, or approaching from Seewis Dorf instead, about three hours on foot. Bicycles are not carried.11

Courtesy, which is not law. The Alpine Club's leaflet is the standard worth following: a single considerate night by a small group above the treeline is generally unproblematic, and you should not sleep close to huts or on grazed alps without asking. On the Vilan the second half is the live part. This is working summer pasture with cattle on it, gates and fences belong to somebody, and leaving a gate as you found it costs nothing.10

  • The bench east-south-east of the summit, LV95 2'764'765 / 1'208'980, 2'288 m, 236 m from the cairn. Flat, sheltered, and 180 m clear of the nearest commune boundary2.
  • The summit dome itself, 2'376 m, for the sunrise. Seewis ground, nothing prohibits it, and it is exposed if the weather turns2.
  • Not 100 m north-north-east of the cairn, however flat it looks. That is Jenins: camping on public ground, CHF 3009.
  • Not west and downhill towards the Älpli. That is Malans, where the same ban applies with fines up to CHF 10'000 and a permit route through the commune8.
  • Not in the forest on the walk-in from Seewis Dorf. The Seewis forest act bites there, CHF 100 to 5'0006.

General rules for wild camping

This matters more where the answer is yes than where it is no. Seewis has never needed a camping rule at 2'376 metres, and its two neighbours wrote one and kept it current. The list below is not law. It is the reason the answer above is still yes.

  • 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.

The verdict covers the summit point and the Seewis flank, and it rests on the absence of any prohibition at the federal, cantonal and communal level. An absence can end, and the two communes at the other side of the cairn show what that looks like: Jenins last revisited its camping fine in May 2024. Whether a given patch of communal alp counts as "öffentlicher Grund" for the Malans and Jenins bans is a question their own authorities decide, and this article does not settle it in your favour. Before every tour, check the current sources yourself and follow instructions on site. 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 Vilan?
Yes at the summit and on the Seewis side, for a single night. The mapped high point is in Seewis im Prättigau, which has never had a Polizeigesetz and whose 30 published acts contain no camping provision outside the forest. Graubünden has no camping rule for the public, and every federal inventory is empty at the top. There is nothing to apply for and nobody to ask. Sleep east or south of the cairn rather than north or west, and the answer stays yes without you having to think about it.
Which commune is the summit in?
Seewis im Prättigau, but only just. The summit point at LV95 2'764'565 / 1'209'105 is Seewis. Bisecting the commune geometry outward on eight bearings puts Malans 1.9 m to the west, Jenins 2.7 m to the north-west and 3.3 m to the north, and Jenins again 15.9 m to the north-east. East, south-east and south you stay in Seewis for at least 1'200 m. Three communal territories meet within four metres of the cairn, and Maienfeld is not far behind them.
What happens if I pitch on the Jenins or Malans side?
You are inside a real camping ban with a real number attached. Jenins Polizeigesetz Art. 16 and Malans Polizeigesetz Art. 17 both forbid camping in tents and motorhomes on public ground. The Jenins fixed-penalty list prices it at CHF 300 under Ziffer 9, amended on 7 May 2024, and its only exception is places the Gemeindevorstand has specially designated. Malans allows individual exceptions with a communal permit and sets fines up to CHF 10'000 in ordinary proceedings, with an unpublished fixed-penalty list capped at CHF 300. Both bans are scoped to public ground, and both communes name the alp beside the summit as their own property in their Alp- und Weidegesetz.
Do I need anyone's permission on the Seewis side?
No. Graubünden has no consent regime of the Appenzell Innerrhoden kind and Seewis operates no permit scheme, so no permission is required and none would make any difference. The Alpine Club asks you not to sleep too close to huts and grazed alps, or to ask first, and that is courtesy rather than law. It is worth taking seriously here anyway: the Vilan is working summer pasture with cattle on it.
Doesn't the Seewis Flurverbot cover a grassy summit?
No, and the ordinance draws that line itself. Art. 4 bans entering and driving on others' meadows and fields from 1 May to 30 September, with a fine of up to CHF 5'000. But Art. 1 defines the Fluren as valley and mountain meadows, fields and gardens, and Art. 8 treats the alps and commons as the separate category the Fluren are fenced off from. At 2'376 m you are on summer grazing, which is alp. The verb is entering rather than overnighting too: read wide enough to reach the Vilan it would ban the marked trail across it.
How do I get up, and can I still get down after a night out?
Älplibahn from Malans, or three hours on foot from Seewis. The cable car runs daily 14 May to 15 November 2026, 08:00 to 17:00 on weekdays and 07:00 to 18:00 at weekends, every 15 minutes, CHF 14 single and CHF 20 return, and reservation by telephone is compulsory on 081 322 47 64. From the top station at 1'801 m the summit is about two hours. Because the last descent is 17:00 on a weekday, an overnight means walking down to Malans in the morning rather than riding, or approaching from Seewis Dorf in the first place. Carry water: there is none at the top.
Leon Helg

Leon Helg

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Sources

  1. Official federal geodata, queried 24 August 2026 at four points: the summit LV95 2'764'565 / 1'209'105, the recommended bench 2'764'765 / 1'208'980, and points 100 m into Malans and into Jenins. Hunting-ban districts, wildlife rest zones, BLN, raised and lowland mires, moor landscapes, floodplains, dry meadows and pastures, amphibian and bird-reserve inventories, Emerald sites and parks of national importance all return a genuinely empty result set at every point. A ring of 25 points at 500 m, 1'500 m and 3'000 m returned no hunting-ban district and no wildlife rest zone in 48 clean queries. Verified with an invalid-layer control (ch.bafu.this-layer-does-not-exist) that surfaced as HTTP 400 in every run, and a positive control at 2'626'000 / 1'154'500 that returned the Kiental hunting-ban district as expected. With no Jagdbanngebiet in range, the tent and camping ban in VEJ SR 922.31 Art. 5 para. 1 lit. e has nothing here to attach to. map.geo.admin.ch. ↩
  2. swisstopo swissBOUNDARIES3D commune geometry and the swissALTI3D height model, queried 24 August 2026. Commune layers were filtered to the current year, because that layer also serves historical boundary years and a merged-away commune would otherwise win. Rays were cast from the summit point on eight bearings and bisected to sub-metre resolution: first non-Seewis ground lies 1.9 m west (Malans), 2.7 m north-west (Jenins), 3.3 m north (Jenins), 15.9 m north-east (Jenins) and 601.4 m south-west (Malans), while east, south-east and south remain Seewis im Prättigau for at least 1'200 m. Summit pin LV95 2'764'565 / 1'209'105, WGS84 47.01257 / 9.60313, gazetteer entry "Hauptgipfel Vilan (GR)", official height 2'376 m and height model 2'375.4 m, the small difference being the model's smoothing of a sharp top. Terrain sampled on a 25 m grid to ±225 m with slope computed from the local gradient: flattest node 1.4 degrees at 2'334 m, 103 m north-north-east, which falls in Jenins; best Seewis node 3.9 degrees at 2'288 m, LV95 2'764'765 / 1'208'980, 236 m east-south-east, with the nearest other commune 180 m away; an intermediate Seewis shelf at 2'311 m, 190 m east-north-east, is only 40 m clear of the boundary. map.geo.admin.ch. ↩
  3. Canton Graubünden, full statute texts pulled from the cantonal law portal API and searched, 24 August 2026, with control terms counted per act so that a zero cannot be a broken pipeline: Raumplanungsgesetz KRG BR 801.100 (2'015 controls), Raumplanungsverordnung KRVO BR 801.110 (1'238), Polizeigesetz des Kantons Graubünden BR 613.000 (2'027), Kantonales Jagdgesetz BR 740.000 (1'485) and its ordinance BR 740.100, Kantonales Waldgesetz BR 920.100 (749), Natur- und Heimatschutzgesetz BR 496.000 and BR 500.000. None contains a camping, tent or bivouac provision for the public. The only article in Bündner law headed "Campieren" is Art. 13 of the Jagdbetriebsvorschriften BR 740.025, headed "Campieren und Biwakieren", which permits tents, tarpaulins and overnighting in vehicles only on marked sites and only "Für die Ausübung der Jagd". The KRVO does mention tents, in Art. 40's list of structures exempt from a building permit, alongside festival marquees and igloos and tipis for overnight stays in ski areas: that is law about Bauten und Anlagen. Note that the portal serves HTML-escaped strings, so the texts were unescaped before searching; a naive search for "übernacht" reads zero on a document that contains it. gr-lex.gr.ch. ↩
  4. ÖREB cadastre extract for the summit parcel, EGRID CH945456777512, parcel 1434, land registry area 12'205'963 m², fetched with geometry on 24 August 2026. Because an alpine parcel is kilometre-scale, the 307 restrictions were tested by point-in-polygon at the exact summit coordinate rather than read as a list; 274 carried surface geometry and all were tested. Five contain the summit: a communal Planungszone in force, Landwirtschaftszone, Landschaftsschutzzone, Lärmempfindlichkeitsstufe III and an area not investigated for hazard zoning. No nature-protection zone contains the point. The Landschaftsschutzzone rests on Art. 34 of the cantonal planning act and bars new Bauten und Anlagen; it carries no camping provision. The extract also names the communal act in force for Seewis and links the authoritative copy of the Baugesetz. oereb.geo.gr.ch. ↩
  5. Gemeinde Seewis im Prättigau (BFS 3972, region Prättigau/Davos), full law collection, consulted 24 August 2026. The published collection runs to 30 acts and contains no Polizeigesetz and no Polizeiverordnung. All 30 were downloaded and read. Ten had no text layer and were put through optical character recognition at 300 dpi with a German model, and one of those, the Reglement über jagdliche Einrichtungen, is a rotated scan that had to be rotated before it would read; every file ends with a non-zero count of control words, so no document is being mistaken for silence. Across the whole collection only two acts contain any of campieren, Camping, Zelt, Biwak, übernachten, nächtigen, Wohnwagen or Wohnmobil: the forest act, and the tourism levy act. Two acts were checked specifically because their titles promise a rule about public ground, and both are silent on camping: the Gesetz über öffentliche Anlagen (GöA-2001), whose Art. 1 defines "öffentliche Anlagen" as four named buildings and their parcels, and the Gesetz für das Dauerparkieren auf öffentlichem Grund (GPLG-2005), which covers parking, depots and landfill sites. Gemeindeverwaltung Seewis, 7212 Seewis Dorf, +41 81 325 12 89. seewis.ch. ↩
  6. Waldgesetz der Gemeinde Seewis (GWaG 2001), Art. 25: "Das Campieren im Wald ist verboten." Art. 26 makes the Gemeindevorstand the prosecuting authority, Art. 27 punishes breaches with fines of CHF 100 to 5'000 alongside full damages, and Art. 28 gives an appeal to the cantonal administrative court within 20 days. The prohibition is scoped to the forest, which on the Vilan means the walk-in from the village and not the open alp several hundred metres higher. The operative verb is "Campieren" alone, without Lagern or Biwakieren. seewis.ch. ↩
  7. Flur- und Dorfverordnung der Gemeinde Seewis, Art. 4 "Flurverbot": "Das Betreten und Befahren von fremden Wiesen und Äckern ist während der Vegetationszeit verboten. Diese dauert in der Regel vom 1. Mai bis 30. September." Art. 1 defines the Fluren as "Tal- und Bergwiesen, Äcker und Gärten" in private or communal ownership, and Art. 8 obliges owners to maintain the fences and walls that separate their land from "Strassen, Alpen und Allmenden", which places the alps and commons outside the Fluren rather than inside them. The operative verb is entering and driving rather than overnighting. Also consulted: Gesetz betreffend Wildruhezonen der Gemeinde Seewis of 2010, whose season runs 1 February to 30 April and whose zone lies around the village, with the geodata sweep returning no rest zone of any commune within 3 km of the summit; and the Gesetz über Kurtaxen sowie die Tourismusförderungsabgabe, the second of the two Seewis acts that mention tents, whose Art. 11 lit. b makes owners of "Standplätze für Zelte, Wohnwagen und Wohnmobile" liable for the tourism levy and whose Art. 9 lit. b sets a visitor's tax of Fr. 1.10 per person per night for camping. Both address an operator of pitches; with no operator and no Standplatz there is no obligation on a hiker. seewis.ch. ↩
  8. Gemeinde Malans, consulted 24 August 2026. Polizeigesetz der Gemeinde Malans, 93-00, adopted by the Gemeindeversammlung on 10 December 2015 and partially revised on 27 March 2024, the revision in force since 1 July 2024. Art. 17 "Campieren": "Auf öffentlichem Grund ist das Campieren in Zelten, Wohnmobilen und dergleichen verboten. Ausnahmen bedürfen einer Bewilligung der Gemeinde." The article sits in the chapter on öffentliche Sachen. Art. 37 punishes breaches with fines up to CHF 10'000 in ordinary administrative criminal proceedings; Art. 38 has the Gemeindevorstand issue a fixed-penalty list capped at CHF 300, and that list is not published, so the figures quoted here are the statutory ceilings rather than a tariff. Art. 28 "Geschlossene Zeit" additionally allows entering meadows and other cultivated areas only from 1 November to 31 March, in a Flurpolizei chapter that otherwise concerns vineyards. The act is published as a nine-page scan whose text layer is nine characters long, and it was read by optical character recognition for this article. Gesetz über das Alp- und Weidwesen der Gemeinde Malans, 41-00, of 13 December 2000, Art. 1: "Folgende Alpen und Heimweiden sind im Eigentum der Politischen Gemeinde Malans: Calfeisen, Tarnutz, Heuberg, Aelpli, Trögenboden, Rohanschanze, Kälberweide und Wyneggrüti." Ober Älpli lies 697 m from the summit and Under Älpli 1'100 m. malans.ch. ↩
  9. Politische Gemeinde Jenins, consulted 24 August 2026. The whole collection was downloaded from the commune's law portal; 29 of its 46 files are scans with no usable text layer and were read by optical character recognition at 300 dpi. Polizeigesetz der Politischen Gemeinde Jenins, adopted 9 December 2015, in force 1 January 2016, Art. 16 "Campieren": "Auf öffentlichem Grund ist das Campieren in Zelten, Wohnmobilen und dergleichen verboten. Ausgenommen von diesem Verbot sind die vom Gemeindevorstand für das Campieren speziell bezeichneten Stellen." Art. 36 sets fines up to CHF 10'000 in ordinary proceedings and provides for fixed penalties up to CHF 300. Ordnungsbussenliste der Politischen Gemeinde Jenins, Ziffer 9: "Campieren auf öffentlichem Grund ohne Bewilligung (Art. 16 Polizeigesetz) CHF 300.00", with the closing provisions recording that Ziffer 9 was amended by the Gemeindevorstand on 7 May 2024 and took effect immediately. Ziffer 21 separately prices unlawful entry onto meadows and cultivated areas between 1 April and 31 October at CHF 100, though the underlying Art. 27 of the police act speaks only of Wiesen. Alp- und Weidegesetz der Politischen Gemeinde Jenins, Art. 5: "Folgende Alpen und Heimweiden sind Eigentum der politischen Gemeinde Jenins: Die Erlenböden, Hüriho, Böden, Piols, Fadella, Schwiibödeli, Putz, Pramanos, Heuberg, Mittelsäss, Obersäss." The communal Wildruhezone covers only "Siechestude", from 1 January to 31 March, with a fine of CHF 150, and it is kilometres from the Vilan. jenins.ch. ↩
  10. Swiss Alpine Club SAC, Merkblatt "Campieren und Biwakieren in den Schweizer Bergen". Quoted: "Ansonsten ist eine einzelne Übernachtung einer kleinen Anzahl Personen im Gebirge oberhalb der Waldgrenze in der Regel unproblematisch, wenn sie rücksichtsvoll erfolgt. Zudem ist ein Notbiwak grundsätzlich erlaubt." And: "Übernachte nicht zu nahe bei Hütten und beweideten Alpen oder erkundige dich, ob eine Übernachtung in der Nähe möglich ist." The leaflet's definitions are also what resolve the wording question in the Seewis forest act: Biwakieren is a night without a tent under the open sky, Campieren is a night in a small tent outside official campsites. Guidance and courtesy, not law. Read alongside ZGB SR 210 Art. 699, which opens forest and pasture to everyone within customary limits: a right of access, never a right to spend the night, and not what makes this spot lawful. The absence of any prohibition is. sac-cas.ch. ↩
  11. Älplibahn Malans, practical information, consulted 24 August 2026. Cable car from Malans to the Älpli at 1'801 m, running daily from Thursday 14 May to Sunday 15 November 2026, Monday to Friday 08:00 to 17:00 and Saturday and Sunday 07:00 to 18:00, departures every 15 minutes and extended at busy times. Rides must be reserved by telephone on 081 322 47 64. Fares: adults CHF 14 single, CHF 20 return, season pass CHF 220; members and groups CHF 11 and CHF 16; children 6 to 16 CHF 11 and CHF 15. Bicycles are not carried. The Restaurant Älpli at the top station keeps the cable car's hours. Distances measured against the national gazetteer: the top station and the restaurant lie 1'106 m and 1'113 m from the summit, Ober Älpli 697 m, the Jenins Obersäss 869 m. The summit is about two hours from the top station and about three hours from Seewis Dorf. aelplibahn.ch. ↩