The traditional two-seater chairlift was transporting tourists all year long from 1949 to 2 September 2012 when its operation was terminated. In the course of this period, 20 million tourists came to the cableway that took more than 7.2 million travellers to the top of Sněžka. At the moment, the cableway is undergoing total reconstruction.

The new cableway leads in its original route, only the bottom station in Pec pod Sněžkou has been relocated lower towards the chalet Lesovna. New technology is used here, i.e. one-cable circulating cableway with four-seater covered cable cars that are detached at the station from the tow cable.