With four stations and a length of 1280 m (the second-shortest underground train line in the world) it allows for a complete ban of cars within the town, while at the same time maintaining the village's attractiveness to tourists, particularly skiers.

Serfaus is a small town located on a plateau 500m above the upper Inn valley in Tyrol, western Austria.

More archaeological research was undertaken at the "Zienerbichl" (a distinctive hill in the south-west of Serfaus), revealing traces of the period Late Antiquity and from the Middle Ages.

In 1942 fourteen houses were destroyed by a fire, which left 16 families (a total of 89 people) homeless and caused about 650,000 ℛ︁ℳ︁ worth of damage.

In order to provide an even quieter and more environmentally friendly means of transportation from the entrance of the town through to the cable-car station, the small underground train system, the Dorfbahn Serfaus went into operation in 1985.

The use of the underground is free-of-charge and along its 1280m-long route it has four stops (Parkplatz, Kirche, Zentrum (formerly named Raika), Seilbahn) and can transport up to 1500 people per hour.

As Serfaus is close to the Via Claudia Augusta and the Reschen Pass people are thought to have traveled through the area for hundreds of years.

Shortly after 1900 skiers started to discover the possibilities of the region and in 1912 plans were made to build a little ski hut on one of the high alpine meadows surrounding the village, the "Kölnerhaus" up at the "Komperdell".

As a result, the three taverns could not provide enough accommodation anymore and farmers started to rent out private rooms to guests in the region.