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The Queen of the Mountains
Rigi has been a viewpoint since the age of grand tourism, the first mountain in Europe to get a cog railway, and Mark Twain walked it long before. The panorama trail traverses the high meadows from the summit down toward Kaltbad, with Lake Lucerne, Lake Zug and a dozen others scattered below and the snow peaks of central Switzerland filling the south. The walking is easy, the view enormous.
Duration
~2.5 hours
Distance
7 km
Elevation gain
200 m
Difficulty
T1 — easy
Rigi Kulm
1798 m
Cog railways climb to Rigi from Vitznau and Arth Goldau, and a cable car from Weggis. Reach the high point by train and walk the ridge gently down.