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Municipality in Nidwalden, Switzerland

Stansstad

Stansstad is a municipality in the canton of Nidwalden in Switzerland.

Stansstad
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The place

Stansstad is a municipality in the canton of Nidwalden in Switzerland.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Stansstad

4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Bürgenstock Resort Lake Lucerne

    Bürgenstock Resort Lake Lucerne is a Swiss luxury resort and tourism complex situated above Lake Lucerne in Canton of Nidwalden, Switzerland. The resort is located on the Bürgenberg and comprises a total of 30 buildings, including three hotels, residences, two spas, a conference centre and a number of leisure facilities.

    3.6 km · Swiss hotel and tourism complex above Lake Lucerne in the canton of Nidwalden · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Winkelrieddenkmal

    The Winkelried memorial was erected in memory of Arnold von Winkelried, who sacrificed his life in the Battle of Sempach on the 9 July 1386. According to the Swiss legend, the Swiss wouldn't be able to break through the firmly positioned order of Habsburg pikemen.

    3 km · monument in Stans in the canton of Nidwalden, Switzerland · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Mueterschwanderberg

    The Mueterschwanderberg is a ridge forming the southern shore of Alpnachersee, just northwest of Stanserhorn and west of the village of Ennetmoos, Nidwalden, Switzerland. Its peak is at an elevation of 860 m.

    3 km · mountain in Switzerland · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Rotzberg Castle ruin

    Rotzberg or Rotzburg is a ruined castle in the municipality of Ennetmoos in the canton of Nidwalden in Switzerland.

    1.4 km · castle ruins in Ennetmoos in the canton of Nidwalden, Switzerland · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Stansstad

Airports
Zürich (ZRH), 56 km · EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 93 km · Bodensee Friedrichshafen (FDH), 117 km
Stations
Stans railway station, 2.9 km · Hergiswil railway station, 2.4 km · Hergiswil Matt railway station, 2.8 km · Stansstad railway station, 300 m
  • Zurich → Stansstad
    46 km · quickest by road, 1h 17m · CHF7–9
  • Geneva → Stansstad
    188 km · quickest by road, 4h 4m · CHF29–38
  • Bâle / Mulhouse → Stansstad
    93 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · €12–17
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Stansstad

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Stansstad. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inIn Beckenried, east of Stans, there's a ferry across the lake to Gersau, saving around of driving.

From Wikivoyage: Stans, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    116 km
  2. 02
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    334 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    740 km
  4. 04
    HvarHR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    768 km
  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    817 km

If you know how people move in Stansstad – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Stansstad

Stansstad is 46 km from Zürich, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Hergiswilmunicipality in the canton of Nidwalden, Switzerland2.3 km
  • Ennetmoosmunicipality in the canton of Nidwalden in Switzerland2.2 km