The best-known caves in Switzerland
Ordered by how much has been written about each place. The numbers match the map.
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The Hölloch, 11 km from Schwyz at 735 m, heads the list, with the Lauiloch nearby. The Höllgrotten are 2 km from Baar, the St.Beatus-Höhlen 14 km from Thun, the Kesslerloch 7 km from Schaffhausen. Elsewhere: the Grotte d'Orjobet at 1200 m, 6 km from Carouge, the Mines d'Asphalte 17 km from Yverdon-les-Bains, the Lac Souterrain 6 km from Sion, and the Kulthöhle Zillis 25 km from Chur.
Of the 288 caves RLQuest knows in Switzerland, 24 have a Wikipedia article. Most of the rest are small and known by local names: Bärenloch, Ofenloch, Pfaffenloch. Compared with the country's 750 castles, caves are the quieter side of the map. RLQuest's quests go there too; the app reads your track to the entrance, and the tiles you cross on the way in fill in for good.
Every dot is a place. The numbers mark the highlights listed below.
Ordered by how much has been written about each place. The numbers match the map.
A selection, best known first, with the nearest larger town next to each.
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RLQuest knows these places too. Which means:
Some of your daily quests lead to a real place near you. The app uses your location to check you were really there.
If you're the first person in RLQuest to complete a quest at a place, it's your first find. The Place Book shows you which kinds of place you're still missing.
Every walk uncovers tiles, each about 350 m across. Over time you can see which corners you know well, and where you've never set foot.
Place data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License. Borders: geoBoundaries (CC BY 4.0); Canada: Statistics Canada. As of 2026-10-02. The list shows the places RLQuest knows and isn't complete. Photos come from Wikimedia Commons; author and license are credited on each photo.
