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Furka pass - The fourth highest paved mountain pass in Switzerland
The Furka Pass links Andermatt in the Canton of Uri with Gletsch in the Canton of Valais. At an altitude of 2431 meters above sea level, the Furka is one of the highest Alpine passes in Switzerland.
It is also one of the highest roads in Europe, and a road in the Alps that those in search for the best driving roads in Europe should experience. It is many people’s favorite road, and it might become yours too.
The railway, which passes through the Furka Tunnel, is part of a larger railroad system connecting eastern and western Switzerland.
The Furka Pass never attained supra-regional importance in history. Together with the Oberalp Pass, it provided an east-west crossing within the Alps, helping the inhabitants of the Valais to emigrate and facilitating a variety of trading relations between the Valais, Uri and Graubunden.
On the Valaisian side, at Hotel Bélvèdere, about three kilometers below the ridge of the Furka Pass, one can get a good view of the Rhone Glacier. An excursion to the glacier grotto, an ice chamber that is built every year anew, is definitely worth your while.
The great river is derived from these remote snow melts before crossing the entire canton until Lake Geneva and – then – on to the Mediterranean! It is definitely worth a stop at the restaurant that overlooks this incredible place.
The Furka Pass was used as a location in the James Bond film Goldfinger. One curve on the east side of the pass is even named "James Bond Strasse".
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