Today visitors can marvel in safety at this 1400 meter long and 200 meter deep natural wonder from a footpath and tunnels cut through the rock.
How to get there:
By car: between Meiringen and Innertkirchen, direction East
By train: to Meiringen Station. Continue approx. 20-30 minutes on foot. Follow the sign "Aareschlucht".
Opening hours:
April to 1st November depending on weather
July/August: illuminated from 9 pm (Wednesday and Friday)
Gorge of the Aare Meiringen
Meiringen
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Over thousands of years the tumbling waters of the young Aare gradually eroded a passage by rushing and gurgling their way ever deeper into the rock until the present gorge with its niches, grottoes and hollows was formed.
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Contact Information
- Restaurant Aareschlucht
3860 Meiringen
Tel. +41 (0)33 971 32 14
info@aareschlucht.ch - www.aareschlucht.ch
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