Fräkmüntegg, Mountain recreation station in Nidwalden, Switzerland

Fräkmüntegg is a ridge on the northeastern spur of the Pilatus in the Emmental Alps, forming the border between the cantons of Lucerne and Nidwalden from 1469 m upward. A cable car from Kriens stops at an intermediate station here, and the Alp Fräkmünt lies below the ridge edge. The site holds the Restaurant Fräkmüntegg, built in 1955, a summer toboggan run and a rope park.

The ridge was first opened to tourists in 1954 with the Kriens–Krienseregg–Fräkmüntegg gondola, built by the Kriensereggbahn AG using the Bell/Wallmannsberger system. A cable car from the Fräkmüntegg up to the Pilatus followed in 1956; the two lifts were renewed in 1983 and 1996. Below the ridge, the Kurhaus Fräkmünt, built in 1902 on the Fräkmüntalp, was destroyed by an avalanche in 1915 and by fire in 1969.

The name goes back to the medieval Latin Mons fractus, recorded around 1100, which survives in Fräkmünt and Fräkmüntegg. The mountain chapel on the Fräkmüntalp was built in 1960/61; its stained glass windows and choir wall were designed by Paul Stöckli. The restaurant on the ridge dates from 1955.

The gondola from Kriens reaches Fräkmüntegg in two sections and runs in winter as well as summer. From here a second cable car continues up to the Pilatus summit, and the Pilatus railway descends to the lake, where boats connect to Lucerne. The summer toboggan run and the rope park lie just below the ridge.

The summer toboggan run below the ridge, called Fräkigaudi, is 1,350 metres long, making it one of Switzerland's longest. It occupies the slope where the Mülimäss ski lift once stood; the lift on the Fräkmüntalp was converted for sledging after skiing ended in 1994.