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Drei Schwestern

2,053 m6,736 ft

Easiest route: 4.8 km+593 m · about 2 h · T3
Prominence: 40 m133 ft
Isolation: 0.4 km
Tonight: -6°CSnow showers · Wind 7 km/h SE

Drei Schwestern is a 2,053 m (6,736 ft) mountain in the Rätikon, Vorarlberg, Austria.

All facts

Elevation: 2,053 m · 6,736 ft
Nearest higher peak: Hohe Köpfe (2,066 m)
Range: Rätikon
Region: Vorarlberg, Austria
Coordinates: 47.1701° N, 9.5651° E

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Route

How to get to the top of Drei Schwestern

3 mapped walking routes from where a car can get you, with distance and climb from the terrain model.

Easiest route: from Road end near Gaflei

Distance: 4.8 kmone way
Climb: +593 m−284 m (1,946 ft up)
Time up: about 2 h
Difficulty: T3Demanding: exposed spots, some easy scrambling

Drei Schwestern elevation profile

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Other routes 2

Road end, 1.7 km N of Drei Schwestern3.6 km · +681 m · about 2 h
T4GPX KML
Road end, 3.5 km NNE of Drei Schwestern5.0 km · +864 m · about 2.5 h
T4GPX KML

Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.

3D map

Drei Schwestern 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Drei Schwestern terrain and contours

100 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. The route drawn is the easiest mapped one, from Gaflei. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.

Index contours every 500 mShowing west → east through the summit

West → east through the summit

Hover the profile to read elevation and distance.Tap or drag along the profile to read elevation and distance.

Weather

Drei Schwestern weather

Tonight · Snow showers · -6°C (21°F) · 1.2 mm · Wind 7 km/h SE

Drei Schwestern forecast for the summit, about 2,053 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 1,411 m.

Tonight-6°1.2 mm7 km/h SEBase -2°
Today-6°0°4.2 mm13 km/h SBase -2 / 4°
Sun-4°6°15.4 mm16 km/h SBase 0 / 10°
Mon-6°5°–9 km/h SBase -2 / 9°
Tue-1°13°–4 km/h SEBase 3 / 17°
Wed-1°4°3.1 mm8 km/h NBase 3 / 8°
Thu-4°5°–6 km/h NBase -1 / 8°
Fri-6°5°–6 km/h NBase -2 / 8°
Sat-7°3°0.8 mm6 km/h NBase -3 / 7°
Sun-3°-1°7.6 mm8 km/h SBase 1 / 3°

Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 23, 23:18 UTC.

Camping & parking

Camping & parking near Drei Schwestern

Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Drei Schwestern, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.

Nearest hut
Gafadurahütte
1.8 km N · +2 more within 7.2 km
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Nearest parking
2.0 km NNW
+2 more within 2.3 km
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Nearest campsite
Lagerplatz Dux
3.2 km W · +1 more within 7.6 km
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Nearest trailhead
Via Alpina
4.8 km SW
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Nearest caravan site
Stellplatz Malbun P2, Triesenberg
7.9 km SSE
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All mapped places 10

Place	Distance
GafadurahütteHut	1.8 km N
Parking	2.0 km NNW
Parking	2.3 km NW
Parking	2.3 km NW
Lagerplatz DuxCampsite	3.2 km W
Via AlpinaTrailhead	4.8 km SW
Naturfreundehaus Feldkircher HütteHut	5.1 km NNE
Hut	7.2 km SSE
Camping WerdenbergCampsite	7.6 km W
Stellplatz Malbun P2, TriesenbergCaravan site	7.9 km SSE

Slope

How steep is the route to Drei Schwestern?

The easiest mapped route, 4.8 km from 1,740 m to 2,053 m. Steepest stretch: 30°.

0 km · 1,740 m4.8 km · 2,053 m

0–15°4.2 km
15–30°0.7 km

Grades are averaged between profile points about 50 m apart, so short steeper steps don’t show.

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Trees 79.2%Grassland 18.1%Built-up 1.0%Bare rock / sparse 0.9%Cropland 0.5%

Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.

Nearby summits

Named peaks within 3 km, measured from the Drei Schwestern summit.

Summit list 5

1Kuhgrat2,122 m 0.5 km SW
2Wolan2,034 m 0.9 km NE
3Jahnturm2,034 m 1.0 km NE
4Gafleispitz1,982 m 1.5 km SSW
5Helwangspitz2,000 m 2.4 km S

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 3 km; 185 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

Hairy Alpenrose9
Bear's Ear6
Blue Saxifrage6
Clusius' gentian4
Black Yarrow4
Northern Chamois3

Where it sits

Where Drei Schwestern sits

Ranked in 2

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Hoher KastenPeak · 1,794 m14 km NNW

Drei Schwestern downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM

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Print & wall

JPGDrei Schwestern satellite image (JPEG)Sentinel-2 true-colour image of the same area, taken 2026-07-24.

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GIS & GPS

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Accuracy

How accurate is this?

within 10 m This 3D map reads 2,057 m at the summit; the official height is 2,053 m.

A 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a few metres either way is normal.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	2,053 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	2,057 m	+4 m
Copernicus GLO-90	2,046 m	-7 m

Data sources

Terrain: Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
Imagery: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-07-24)
Land cover: © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts: Wikidata (CC0)
Wildlife: iNaturalist community observations, counts only
Accuracy comparison, Panorama: Includes Copernicus WorldDEM-90 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
Forecast: Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)
Sources: Wikidata · OpenStreetMap · GeoNames · Wikipedia

Drei Schwestern

Easiest route: from Road end near Gaflei

West → east through the summit

Nearest hut

Nearest parking

Nearest campsite

Nearest trailhead

Nearest caravan site

Data sources