This is the last stop of the Gornergrat train, opened in 1898, which climbs almost through Riffelalp and Riffelberg. At the terminus on the south-western tip of the ridge is a hotel. The station forms part of the Zermatt ski area. From 1958 to 2007 there was a cable car from Gornergrat over the Hohtälli () to the Stockhorn () which, until the construction of the Klein Matterhorn cable car, was the highest mountain station in Zermatt.