From Lucerne Station - to the right along lakeside - for about 5 km follow the national cycle routes no. 3 & 9 in the direction of Stansstad / Sarnen, Villa Krämerstein (with picnic area and bathing)

 

Start at Main Post Office Lucerne (railway subway, exit «Altstadt» - Old Town) - Bahnhofstrasse

 

A perspiring uphill pedal, wonderful views of the Vierwaldstättersee and Rigi mountain. Küssnacht was a harbour town on the old Gotthard route.

 

From the Reuss on the peaceful shores of the Baldeggerseee and Hallwilersee, passing moated Hallwil Castle and Lenzburg Castle, through water meadows along the Aare, over the Bözberg to the dinosaur skeletons in Fricktal and on to the Rhine.

 

From the silvery Sarnersee lake through Kernwald forest to Stans, with Swiss hero Winkelried immortalized in marble.

 

General Suworow drove his troops mercilessly over the Pragelpass into the Glarus region, and cyclists still suffer on the pass today, recover at the crystal-clear Klöntalersee lake, drink an Elmer lemonade and marvel at the Alpine thrust fault.