The BF is not just about trees and scenery but about rural life. GENGENBACH: lovely old walled town with towersīAIERSBRONN: some high-end Michelin-guide restaurant options GUTACH: visit the Vogtsbauernhof Open-Air Museum If you also plan to visit Freiburg, Baden-Baden, and/or Strasbourg FR by rail, staying in Gengenbach makes travel to these more distant places a little more convenient.Ī couple of highlights on the Black Forest Railway. Good base towns might include Gengenbach, Gutach, Haslach, and Hausach, all located near one another on the scenic Black Forest Railway between Offenburg and Donaueschingen (source of the Danube River.) From any one of these four base towns, it's not difficult to get from one to another - or to many other Black Forest destinations of interest, which might include. This video explains the KONUS program as well. (Baden-Baden and Freiburg do not qualify see the KONUS list on the flyer.)
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The flyer provides details on the KONUS program, which provides visitors with free use of trains (and any buses you like) throughout your stay when you book a stay in certain towns. Have a look at the purple dotted lines on page 2 of the flyer map below.
The Black Forest train network is immense and service is frequent. I've done both, but after discovering the train system, I wondered why I ever bothered with the car. Indeed, Rick focuses strongly on Freiburg and Baden-Baden, neither of which have much Black-Forest flavor and are disconnected from images of Black Forest villages that most of us carry around in our heads and want to visit.Ī short visit of 4 days with some exploring can be done either by train or by car. There's a lot that most first-time visitors do not know about the Black Forest and cannot learn from a Rick Steves guidebook.
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