Simmental house way, Cultural hiking trail in Simmental valley, Switzerland.

The Simmental house way is a hiking trail through the Bernese Oberland featuring traditional wooden homes with painted facades and carved architectural details along the entire route. The path connects Wimmis and Boltigen using low-traffic asphalt sections and nature trails.

The Simmental house way opened in 1992, a joint project of the BLS railway, the Bernese hiking trails association and the Niedersimmental tourist office, following a 1986 pilot route near Thun. It was laid out to open the valley's farmhouses to walkers. The houses were built with money from breeding and exporting Simmental cattle, and most are listed as cultural property in their municipalities.

The houses along the route display regional building crafts with painted facades and carved details that visitors can see today. These styles show how local people worked with their environment and farming traditions.

The route is marked with brown direction signs and runs on nature paths and low-traffic side roads. Starting points are the BLS RegioExpress "Lötschberger" stations on the Spiez–Zweisimmen line and the MOB stations between Zweisimmen and Lenk; local buses let walkers shorten a stage. The Talweg covers 18 km in about 4½ hours, the Terrassenweg 20 km in about 6 hours, and the route can be split at Wimmis, Erlenbach, Weissenburg, Oberwil and Boltigen.

The route passes more than 100 farmhouses whose carved timberwork and painted facades were financed by breeding and exporting Simmental cattle. Brown direction signs mark the way, and panels fixed to the houses give each building's age, architecture and special features.