Unterer Rheinweg Promenade – Basel's Old Town 🇨🇭🚴 loop from Basel

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Unterer Rheinweg Promenade – Basel's Old Town 🇨🇭🚴 loop from Basel

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Unterer Rheinweg Promenade – Basel's Old Town 🇨🇭🚴 loop from Basel

02:49

11.0km

50m

Hiking

Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily walkable paths. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: November 7, 2026

Waypoints

Start point

Bus stop

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675 m

Three Kings Ferry (Basel)

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Absolutely worth seeing, absolutely beautiful in any weather.

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4.42 km

View of the Dreiländerbrücke (Three-Country Bridge)

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6.85 km

Port of Basel-Kleinhüningen

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Port Basel-Kleinhüningen
On the right bank of the Rhine are the harbor basins 1 and 2 and a turning basin

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7.53 km

Dreiländereck Monument and Three-Country Bridge

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This is where Switzerland, France and Germany come together. As Switzerland is not an EU member, there are of course also customs and border stations here.
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8.26 km

Rhine Promenade Basel-Kleinhüningen

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From Dreiländereck you can walk along the Rhine promenade along the Rhine to Basel.

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8.72 km

Holzpark Klybeck and the Lightship in Basel

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Since July 2014, a new, temporary cultural home for creative ideas, urban wilderness and dancing freedom has been created, with various events taking place all the time. Or just stroll through the lovingly designed wooden park.

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10.6 km

Unterer Rheinweg Promenade

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The Lower Rhine Trail leads to the Middle Rhine Bridge, where it is replaced by the Upper Rhine Trail - and vice versa, depending on where you come from.

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10.7 km

Basel's Old Town 🇨🇭🚴

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Beautiful view of Basel's old town with the magnificent Mittlere Brücke (Middle Bridge). Basel's oldest bridge, dating back to the 13th century.

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11.0 km

End point

Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

5.00 km

2.87 km

2.09 km

787 m

263 m

Surfaces

6.90 km

2.73 km

1.27 km

< 100 m

Elevation

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Weather

Sunday 8 November

10°C

4°C

61 %

Additional weather tips

There’s a fairly high chance of rain. Consider packing a waterproof jacket.

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Comments

August 6, 2023,Basel, Rheinhafen,3Länderbrücke

Today, in very windy weather, instead of a bike tour, which would probably have blown me off my bike, I hiked along the Basel Rhine (port) to the Dreiländerbrücke and back.
Photo 11 does not show the Johanniter Bridge but the Middle Bridge.

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October 15, 2025,Basel / Dreiländereck Runde

The GPS wasn't working properly again today. 🙄

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July 27, 2024,Dreiländereck 🇩🇪🇨🇵🇨🇭

Today we went to the southwestern corner of Germany, crossing the border into France 🇨🇵 and from there to Switzerland 🇨🇭 and back to 🇩🇪.

I'm looking forward to the end of next week, when we'll be heading to the northeastern corner of Germany 😉.
Nice diagonal 🤗.

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May 28, 2023,Wanderung

Is not a real hike a nice walk through 3 countries.

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March 14, 2024,Wanderung

Very nice tour made over the three-country bridges. Germany, France and Switzerland

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May 23, 2025,Spaziergang am Morgen nach Basel und zurück ⛅️🚶

After a hearty breakfast, we started the tour. We quickly reached Huningue (France) via the Three Countries Bridge. From there, we followed the Rhine Cycle Path and, after crossing a large industrial area, reached the border with Switzerland and thus Basel.

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February 19, 2025,🇨🇭🇩🇪🇲🇫 3 Ländertour

Today there was a 3 country tour, we actually had far too little time to see everything in more detail, but since we already knew most of it, we enjoyed the tour in winter without many people.
First we walk through the Rhine harbor, here I went on a guided tour, very good information about shipping on the Rhine, here …

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