Halstatt to Matterhorn
 

My husband and I are planning a trip to Europe summer of 2014 and there is one leg of the trip that we could use some help with. We will have about 7-10 days to travel from Halstatt, Austria to Zermatt, Switzerland and we wanted to take the scenic route through the Swiss Alps. We will have our own car and the only places we have come up with that we want to visit are Interlaken and Gimmelwald. We are open to suggestions on what to see, where to stay and what to do. Thanks!

You should definitely plan to spend a couple of days on Lake Constance (aka Bodensee). With a car you can easily stay in Meersburg and visit Birnau with its lovely Baroque church as well as Uberlingen with it's beautiful lake promenade and old town.

http://www.meersburg.de/en/Tourism/S.../Town-portrait

http://www.ueberlingen-bodensee.de/

I'd also recommend Stein am Rhein and Lucerne. Stein am Rhein is small and can be seen in a few hours if you wish. Lucerne deserves as much time as you can devote as there are boat rides you can take and mountain vistas you can traverse.

http://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/Miss-Fi...?trkid=5966279

http://www.luzern.com/en/index.cfm

Ignore the third link (Netflix link) above! Don't know how that happened!

Should be http://www.steinamrhein.ch/xml_1/internet/de/intro.cfm

Thank you for the suggestions! We looked at all of them and definitely put Lake Constance on the itinerary.

Look up these:
Mittenwald
Zugspitze
Lindau
Appenzell
Säntis
Disentis
Andermatt
Furkastrasse past Grimselsee to Innertkirchen
Brienz (stop and go up on the Brienzer Rothorn)
Interlaken
Jungfraujoch (not by car)
Mürren
Stechelberg - Gimmelwald (not by car)
Kandersteg - car goes on train through tunnel (see www.bls.ch/e/autoverlad/autoverlad.php)
Täsch (last car stop for Zermatt which is car free)