Vierwaldstättersee - northern & eastern shores (driving tour)

Leave Lucerne (altitude 438 m/1,437ft) on the Haldenstrasse, going past the Kursaal (on right) and the beautiful lakeside gardens and continuing close to the shore of Lake Lucerne. In 2km/1mi a side road goes off on the right (0.5km/0.25mi) to the public beach (park, camp site, restaurant) and the Swiss Transport Museum. The main road passes the Liliputbahn (a miniature steam railroad). Beyond this a road comes in on the right from the beach. Then the hotels on the Bürgenstock and later the Rigi come into view. The first place to be reached is Seeburg (440 m/1,444ft; beach), an outlying suburb of Lucerne. Beyond this, the road winds its way up to cross the Megger Berg (496 m/1,627ft), with fruit orchards and many houses, past the Meggenhorn, a little wooded peninsula on the right.