Restroom Availability While Hiking

I did not see any during my days hiking around Murren.
(Females, the she-wee device is a great thing to pack!)

Thank you for asking this. We will be in the BO soon and I would like to know this as well.

If your hiking trail passes by a mountain restaurant, there will be a restroom there (general etiquette in Switzerland is to purchase food or drink, not just go in and use the bathroom). I have noticed in recent years that portable toilets are springing up along routes that are very popular with tourists, so you might stumble on one of those. I have seen them along the Lauterbrunnen - Stechelberg walk and the Männlichen Panorama trail.

Since I travel (sometimes for several hours) from home to most of the hikes I do I always use the restroom at the train station or gondola station before beginning my hike. This is when I make sure my water bottle is full as well. Since the hikes I do are only 3 - 4 hours long, I have never needed to stop along the way.

Any specific routes you are thinking of?

Toilets is always a concern of mine. In Switzerland, I never walk more than a couple of hours from a train or gondola station.

This is bad advice, but I limit my fluid intake when walking and rehydrate when I’m back at my hotel.

Most of the pay toilets now accept credit card, but i like to have coins just in case.

https://www.sbb.ch/en/travel-information/stations/services-station/toilets.html

Thanks to everyone who replied to me!

Valadelphia, where do you find the privacy to use a she-wee?

Valadelphia, where do you find the privacy to use a she-wee?

I wondered the same thing. :-) And then what do you do with it when are done using it?

In Zermatt coming down from the Gondergrat, the bathrooms were free at the train station. We stopped for lunch at a restaurant along the trail and used theirs. I’ve grown up hiking as have my kids and carry tissues and a small plastic bag and don’t have a problem finding a place off trail with someone being the lookout if I really have to go. And for Pete’s sake, hydrate!…you’re asking for problems with the sun at those elevations if you refrain from drinking water because you might have to pee.