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Obwalden
About 13 miles away
A monastery village below Mount Titlis, with cable cars up to its glacier and the Cliff Walk.
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Mount Pilatus
A craggy summit above the lake, reached by the steepest cogwheel railway in the world.
- Open
- Every day; the cogwheel railway runs from about May to November, the gondola and cableway all year
- Price
- Paid; boats are included in many round-trip tickets
- Time Needed
- Half a day
- Address
- Pilatus Bahnen, Alpnachstad or KriensDirections
- Getting There
- Boat or train to Alpnachstad, or bus to Kriens for the gondola.
Why Go
Since 1889, the railway from Alpnachstad has climbed slopes of up to 48 percent to the top, at 2,128 meters. From the summit terraces you look over Lake Lucerne and a long line of Alpine peaks. Most visitors make a loop: a boat to Alpnachstad, the cogwheel railway up, and the aerial cableway and gondola down to Kriens.
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