Tourist Office of Château-d'Œx
The staff of the Pays-d'Enhaut Région are looking forward to meeting you at the Tourist Office to answer all your questions about your stay.
The staff of the Pays-d'Enhaut Région are looking forward to meeting you at the Tourist Office to answer all your questions about your stay.
This information point in the laiterie fromagerie de Charmey visitor centre is given over entirely to the SUMMER-GRAZING SEASON
The destinations featured here will allow you to explore, at your own pace, the different facets of this age-old alpine f...
A selection of leaflets and brochures are available at all information points. These feature all the latest news about the Park as well as activity ideas and listings.
A selection of leaflets and brochures are available at all information points. These feature all the latest news about the Park as well as activity ideas and listings.
In 2009 the Les Moulins cheese dairy was threatened with closure. Pierre Buchillier, with the backing of local producers, came to its rescue, taking over the premises and its contents wholesale. He subsequently became an independent milk buyer with t...
When Fanny and Sébastien Henchoz took over the family farm, they decided to inject a new lease of life into the business by growing, harvesting and drying plants and herbs that harness the ancestral power of the mountains.
A carpenter and a herbalis...
In 1988, Michel Béroud and his wife Hélène took over the running of the Fleurette cheese dairy and, with it, the production of its signature product, the Tomme Fleurette. This soft rind cheese cemented its fine reputation when it was named best bloom...
The architecture of Grandvillard, which dates predominately from the 17th to 19th century, bears witness to the major contribution that cheesemaking made to the local alpine economy. Today, this remarkable stone and timber architectural ensemble is n...
Maurane and Malik Bajrami are famed for their delicious lamb meat products. On their sheep farm, at the entry to the Intyamon valley, the lambs are reared naturally on their mother’s milk.
Malik was 14 when he began keeping sheep. When he met his f...
The milk from dairy cows raised on the lush pastures of the Jogne valley is packed full of natural nutrients. So too are the products which are lovingly crafted from it.
The Charmey milk and cheese dairy uses this milk in its two flagship products, ...
It still has its original kitchen with hearth and open chimney, its wood-beam rooms, as well as a vast cheese cellar. The Etambeau chalet, located at 1000m altitude, was the permanent home of a farmer; a large barn/stable still shelters cows in wint...
In summer, when cows graze the mountain pastures, the cheese-maker himself/herself can be found making cheese over a wood fire each morning. The cheese is then aged for several months in the L'Etivaz cheese cellars, under the careful watch of the L'E...
In summer, when cows graze the mountain pastures, the cheese-maker himself/herself can be found making cheese over a wood fire each morning. The cheese is then aged for several months in the L'Etivaz cheese cellars, under the careful watch of the L'E...
In the canton of Fribourg there is almost one organised singer for every 35 inhabitants. This exceptional density can be explained by a centuries-old tradition firmly rooted in the region's history.
Although the choral movement has developed in all ...
Fabrice Isoz runs his dairy farm, La Ferme de la Sciaz, in La Lécherette situated at a lofty altitude of 1,450 metres in the commune of Château-d’Œx. Twenty or so cows provide the milk needed to make his speciality, Le Piat, a soft, washed-rind farmh...
All year round, Esther and Jean-Claude Ginier live and work on their family farm at La Comballaz, situated at an altitude of 1,400 metres.
In the summer, they take their 15 cows up to their mountain pastures in Sonnaz, overlooking Les Mosses. Every ...
The philosophy of Herbolanne (the patois word for medicinal plants, flowers, leaves and roots) can be summed up in three words: artisan, local and natural. This small family-run business, based between Rossinière and the hamlet of La Tine, produces e...
Joël and Estelle Mottier rear twenty or so suckler Angus cows on their organic farm, La Ferme des Châbles, in Les Moulins. The grass fodder harvested during the summer months at La Lécherette and Les Mosses keeps the herd well fed throughout winter. ...
Le Chalet is one of Château-d'Œx’s most popular tourist attractions. Its famed organic cheese, Le Chalet Bio, is made by heating milk from mountain farms in large vats over a wood fire. In the heart of the restaurant, the cheesemaker, dressed in trad...
The Alp cheesemaking season is short. Between April to October, alpine farmers make between two and three wheels of Alp cheese every day. The process involves heating milk in huge 800-litre capacity copper vats; twelve litres of milk are needed to ma...
Pascal Tercier has had a life-long passion for farming and livestock. Having worked on a series of mountain farms in his youth, the former lumberjack finally became master of his own 40-hectare farm, in Charmey, which also came with 160 hectares of m...
L’Etivaz AOP is made between 10 May and 10 October by 70 producers in their mountain farms across the Vaud Alps and Pre-Alps and situated at an altitude of between 1,000 and 2,000 metres. The cheese is made from milk delicately scented by the alpine ...
When Steeve Daenzer took over the family dairy farm in 2016, he decided to shift its core business to rearing suckler cows. He had long entertained the idea of offering customers a pasture-to-plate experience. In 2017, Steeve and his wife Caroline be...
The Delacombaz family, artisanal cheese-makers, run both the cheese factory and Montbovon grocery store which features local dairy products. Our cheese operation works with about 1 million kilos of milk from 9 community dairy farmers per year. This m...
Potag’Oex came to life in 2020. When Yaëlle lost her job in early 2020, she began plotting her comeback, this time as a market gardener. The timing could not have been better: some agricultural land in the village of Les Moulins had just become avail...
In 1990 dairy farmers and L’Etivaz AOP cheesemakers, Jean-Robert Henchoz and his wife decided to branch out into sheep farming. When they realised there was a growing demand for sheep’s milk products, they gave up rearing dairy cows in Rossinière.
T...
Via Le Gruyère AOP
The family-run farm Votre Cercle de Vie is a veritable alpine Noah’s Ark. The animals spend the summer in the farm’s mountain pastures in Le Pâquier-Mottier, part of La Torneresse valley in L’Etivaz, and the rest of the year at the farm in Château-d’...
The Plan de l’Ouge certified organic farm deep in the La Torneresse valley of L’Etivaz is run by Maurice and Sylviane Henchoz, together with their sons Stéphane and Nicolas.
In 1997 Maurice Henchoz converted his family farm to organic, which meant a...
Die Maison des Fées wurde 1914 als Landhaus entworfen und gibt die romantisierte Naturverbundenheit jener Zeit bis heute wieder.
Julien Rouget is a man of adventure and a lover of the great outdoors. Originally from Brittany, Julien worked as a river guide in Canada for more than 10 years before he settled in Charmey, having fallen under the charm of the rugged, pristine lands...
Every year, the Jaun cheese dairy transforms almost 2.3 million kilos of milk, all sourced from local farms in Jaun, Im Fang and Ablänschen, into an extensive range of products. Behind this impressive feat are Jean-Jacques Clément and his dedicated t...
Breakfast includes fresh milk, jams, homemade yoghurt and local cheeses from a nearby village on the banks of the Sarine river.
Cross through wooded pastures, then follow the trail up through the forest before arriving on the Pra-Cornet plateau and walking around it. Situated at 1670 meters, the plateau offers a stunning view of the surrounding summits.
Walks through the park - between villages and valleys on a tour of discovery to the pearls of its historical heir, on the trail of cheese. The new app, the cheese trails, is your companion!
Walks through the park - between villages and valleys on a tour of discovery to the pearls of its historical heir, on the trail of cheese. The new app, the cheese trails, is your companion!
On peut admirer sur les tombes du cimetière de Jaun des sculptures rendant hommage au défunt en le présentant dans des aspects de sa vie. Il s’agit là d’un exemple visible de la commémoration rendue aux défunts.
Ailleurs dans le canton, le 1er novemb...
Re-connect with nature and heal with horses
Organisation which brings together the Gruyères, Bulle and Charmey tourist offices.
Ce parcours balisé, sans grosse difficulté, permet d’admirer de magnifiques prairies à narcisses au printemps, et des panoramas de 360 degrés – des Alpes au Lac Léman en passant par le Jura – toute l’année.
This hiking trail showcases the important contribution of farming to this pre-Alpine landscape.
This information point presents 15 emblematic points of interest to visit or discover on the theme of the Park's local products. It's an opportunity to discover or rediscover new tastes and producers, 11 of whom offer products with the Produit des pa...
From Gros Mont to Charmey, via La Monse
From the Gros Mont to the Intyamon
From Gros Mont to Pays-d'Enhaut
From one side of the Gastlosen to the other, via the Col du Loup
Via Col du Loup and Grubenberghütte
The Maison du Gruyère is a cheese factory where you can discover all the secrets of making Gruyère AOP cheese and more. The magic of the transformation of milk into cheese happens from 9 to 11am and from 12:30 to 2:30pm. As visitors look on, the m...
Ferien in der grosszügige Belle-Epoque-Wohnung «Les Platanes» an der Waadtländer Riviera.
1500m3 Holz werden jedes Jahr gesägt. Das verwendete Holz ist zu 100% Schweizer Holz und zu 35% Holz aus dem Park.