Day trips from Zurich: 9 epic adventures
Some day trips repay the early train. Plenty don't. These 9 day trips from Zurich are the ones that earn the hours, and each comes with an honest note on what you're really getting.
Book a TripLucerne & Mount PilatusThe classic Swiss day out of Zurich: the lakeside old town of Lucerne, then the golden round trip up Pilatus by the steepest cogwheel railway in the world and back down by cable car and boat. Directions
Book a TripJungfraujoch, Top of EuropeThe highest railway station in Europe at 3,454 metres, through the inside of the Eiger to a glacier plateau of ice and snow in any month of the year. Directions
Book a TripGrindelwald, Interlaken & Lauterbrunnen★ 4.6The Bernese Oberland in a day: Interlaken between its two lakes, Grindelwald under the Eiger north face, and the Lauterbrunnen valley with 72 waterfalls coming off vertical cliffs. Directions
Book a TripRhine FallsThe largest waterfall in Europe by volume, an hour north of Zurich, with platforms built out over the water and a boat to the rock in the middle of it. Directions
Book a TripMount Titlis & Lucerne★ 4.6Lucerne in the morning, then the rotating cable car up Titlis to a glacier at 3,020 metres, with the Ice Flyer chairlift over the crevasses and a suspension bridge along the cliff. Directions
Book a TripHeidiland & LiechtensteinEast to the valley that gave the world Heidi, then across the border into Liechtenstein, a country of 160 square kilometres you can see most of in an afternoon. Directions
Book a TripSchilthorn & Thrill WalkUp to the revolving restaurant at 2,970 metres where On Her Majesty's Secret Service was filmed, with the Thrill Walk cliff path bolted to the rock face on the way. Directions
Book a TripMount Titlis Snowmobile & Lucerne★ 4.8The Titlis day with a snowmobile run on the glacier added to it. Directions