🥾 Swiss Hiking Trails MCP

An MCP server for Swiss hiking routes, built on Swiss open government data. Ask your AI agent things like "I want to do a not-too-hard 4-hour hike in Valais this week — what do you recommend, is it open, how do I get there by train, and give me the GPX."

Live endpoint: https://wandern.opencore.ch/api/mcp (Streamable HTTP, no auth)

What it knows

355 official SchweizMobil Wanderland routes (7 national, ~60 regional, local day hikes) with 887 stages — official hiking times in both directions, distance, ascent/descent, min/max elevation, fitness and technique difficulty, start/end places, cantons.
Live closures & diversions from the federal closures layer.
Elevation profiles from the swisstopo terrain model.
Weather at route elevation (Open-Meteo), public transport to/from trailheads (transport.opendata.ch), POIs along the trail — huts, water, restaurants (OpenStreetMap).
GPX generation with elevation data: GET /api/gpx/{routeId}.gpx (e.g. /api/gpx/39.2.gpx).

Tools

Tool	Purpose
`search_routes`	Search routes by name/place with filters (length, duration, difficulty, canton, single/multi-day)
`find_routes_near`	Routes near a Swiss place name or coordinates
`get_route_details`	Full route details incl. stages and GPX links
`get_elevation_profile`	Elevation profile (distance/elevation pairs)
`check_closures`	Current closures/diversions near the route
`generate_gpx`	GPX download link for a route or stage
`get_weather`	Daily forecast at route elevation
`get_transit_connections`	Public transport to the start / back from the end
`find_pois_along_route`	Huts, drinking water, restaurants, picnic spots, viewpoints, transit stops

All tools take lang (de default, fr, it, en). Route ids are SchweizMobil route numbers ("1" = Via Alpina), stage ids are "1.5" (route 1, stage 5).

Development

pnpm install
pnpm dev            # MCP endpoint at http://localhost:3000/api/mcp

Rebuilding the route index

The bundled route index (data/) is generated from the official Wanderland dataset (updated roughly yearly):

curl -LO https://data.geo.admin.ch/ch.astra.wanderland/wanderland/wanderland_2056.shp.zip
unzip wanderland_2056.shp.zip -d wanderland
pnpm build-index wanderland/2026_shape_wanderland

Data sources & licenses

Source	Data	License / terms
Wanderland Schweiz (FEDRO/SchweizMobil)	Routes, stages, times, difficulty	FSDI terms of use (free with attribution)
GeoAdmin API	Closures, elevation, geocoding	FSDI terms of use
Open-Meteo	Weather	CC-BY 4.0
transport.opendata.ch	Public transport	Free, fair use
OpenStreetMap	POIs	ODbL

Not an official service of SchweizMobil, swisstopo or the Swiss Confederation.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.