Rheinfall

Rheinfall Review

The Rheinfall is 492 feet wide, drops some 82 feet in a series of three dramatic leaps, and is split at the center by a bushy crag straight out of a 19th-century landscape painting. The effect—mist, roaring water, jutting rocks—is positively Wagnerian. Goethe saw in the falls the "ocean's source," although today's jaded globetrotters have been known to find them "cute." A visitor's center at the nearby Schloss Laufen includes a souvenir shop, restaurant, playground and new bridge walkway that lets you see, hear, and get sprayed by the falls.