Lakeside path
About an hour's walk.
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Lake St. Moritz is a small mountain lake at the resort of St. Moritz in the Upper Engadin valley of eastern Switzerland, about 46 km southeast of Chur and 140 km southeast of Zurich in a straight line. It covers 0.78 square kilometres, smaller than the nearby lakes of Sils and Silvaplana. St. Moritz made its name as a winter resort and hosted the Winter Olympics in 1928 and 1948. When the lake freezes in winter it hosts snow polo in January or early February and the White Turf horse races on three weekends in February, held since 1907. Skijoring, in which horses tow skiers, was invented here. In summer the calm water mirrors the town with its grand hotels on the slope, the pine forests and the mountains around it, and in autumn the larches along the shore turn gold. In winter the lake becomes a wide white plain beneath snow-covered peaks. A flat path circles the lake in about an hour on foot and links the town with the railway station. Trains on the famous Bernina line set off from here over the Bernina Pass, and the Morteratsch Glacier is a short train ride away.
About an hour's walk.
Races and polo in winter.
A famous mountain railway.
St. Moritz, Upper Engadin, Canton of Graubünden, Switzerland
On three weekends in February.
About an hour.