The long version of the small print. It governs the Wildcamping Legality Checker, every legality report and every verdict on this site.
Version: 31 July 2026
This page governs the Wildcamping Legality Checker at hikebeast.ch, every legality report and verdict published on hikebeast.ch (including the report pages in the journal and the verdict labels shown on spot pages, maps and lists), and the emails that deliver reports. By requesting or reading a report you accept what follows.
Hikebeast is a hiking publication, not a law firm. Nothing on this site is legal advice, and no lawyer-client or advisory relationship is created by using the checker, buying a Wildcamping Pass, or reading a report.
The reports are editorial research summaries written for orientation. If you need advice you can rely on in a dispute, consult a Swiss lawyer or the competent authority.
Each report summarizes our own research into public and official sources: federal and cantonal law, communal regulations, court-registered prohibitions, protected-area inventories, official geodata, and where noted direct statements from authorities, landowners or tenants.
Research is AI-assisted and human-curated. Each report carries the date of its research. We cite the norms we rely on so you can verify them yourself.
A verdict is our good-faith assessment of the legal situation for one night in a small tent, at the exact pinned location, set up around dusk and packed by morning, for a small group on foot. It says nothing about campervans, trailers, larger groups, several nights, fires, drones, or any other place, including places a short distance from the pin. Protected-area boundaries in particular can run within meters of a pin.
A verdict is an opinion based on the sources available on the research date. It is not a fact about what will happen to you on site, and it is not binding on any authority.
Laws, regulations, ownership, tenancies, protected-area boundaries and local enforcement practice change, sometimes without any public announcement. Sources can be outdated, incomplete or wrong, and despite care our reading of them can be wrong too.
We do not guarantee accuracy, completeness or timeliness of any report, verdict, boundary or fine amount, and we do not systematically re-verify past reports. Word-of-mouth arrangements reported to us (for example a small fee paid to an alp tenant) are published as exactly that: unverified local practice that can end at any time.
A report never grants you a right to camp. Even where our verdict is Legal or Tolerated, the land belongs to someone, and Swiss law protects owners and tenants. Nothing on this site replaces the consent of a landowner where consent is required, a permit where a permit is required, or a fee where a fee is charged.
What you find on site beats what you read here. A sign, a fence, a ranger, a landowner, a police officer or a municipal notice on location always takes precedence over our verdict. If an authority or an entitled person tells you to leave, leave. If a report and reality disagree, trust reality and tell us.
You alone decide whether, where and how you camp, and you carry the consequences of that decision. This includes fines and criminal or administrative proceedings, claims by landowners, damage to property, and all outdoor risks such as weather, terrain, rockfall, wildlife and cold.
Wildcamping and mountain travel are inherently risky. Verify the current situation yourself before you rely on anything published here.
To the extent permitted by Swiss law, Hikebeast, its operator and contributors accept no liability for any damage arising from the use of, or reliance on, the checker, the reports, the verdicts or any other content on this site. This exclusion covers in particular fines, penalties, procedure costs, rescue and evacuation costs, and indirect or consequential damage.
It does not cover liability that cannot be excluded under Swiss law, such as liability for unlawful intent or gross negligence.
The Wildcamping Pass and any paid report access are subject to the same editorial nature and the same limitations described here. Payment buys access and research priority, not a guarantee that a verdict is correct, that a spot is safe, or that an authority will share our reading. Purchase, billing and refund terms are shown at checkout and on the account pages.
Reports link to laws, official map services and other third-party sources. We do not control these and accept no responsibility for their content or availability. Cited norms can be amended or repealed after the research date.
Every report assumes the quiet, traceless version of wildcamping: arrive late, leave early, no fire where fires are restricted, nothing left behind, wide distance to huts, homes and wildlife rest zones. Where our reports describe local customs or tolerances, they exist only as long as campers behave this way. Nothing on this site is a call to break applicable law.
We can change this page at any time. The version in force is the one published here at the time you use the site.
Swiss law applies, excluding conflict-of-law rules. Place of jurisdiction is the seat of the operator as shown in the imprint, where legally permissible. For questions about this page, use the contact in the imprint.