The best-known lookout towers in Switzerland
Ordered by how much has been written about each place. The numbers match the map.
The Uetliberg-Turm stands at 870 m, 5 km from Zurich, and the Loorenkopf-Turm at 694 m is 3 km from Dübendorf. Lausanne has the Tour de Sauvabelin 2 km from the center; Bern has the Chutzenturm (2010, 819 m) 12 km out. Winterthur's Eschenbergturm is 2 km from town, Wil's Wiler Turm (2006) likewise. The Hammetschwand-Lift, 9 km from Lucerne, is an elevator rather than a tower.
Of the 88 observation towers RLQuest knows in Switzerland, 66 have a Wikipedia article, the highest share of the five kinds the app has pages for here. For RLQuest, a tower is a tidy quest with an obvious endpoint; the app confirms you reached it from your route, not from a photo of the view.
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.
and 36 more
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.
