The best-known viewpoints in North Rhine-Westphalia
Ordered by how much has been written about each place. The numbers match the map.
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The Ruhr's former mining land gives it viewpoints other regions lack: the Tetraeder is 2 km from Bottrop, the Adener Höhe 2 km from Bergkamen. The Rheinturm is a kilometer from the center of Düsseldorf, the Alter Zoll the same from Bonn. Elsewhere the viewpoints are towers and rock outcrops: the Kindelsbergturm (1907) 3 km from Kreuztal, Bierbaums Nagel at 431 m near Warburg, the Korteklippe 6 km from Essen.
RLQuest knows 653 viewpoints in North Rhine-Westphalia, and only 22 have a Wikipedia article. Names like Abendblick Köln, Airport-Terrasse and Alte Skisprungschanze tell you how loosely the word is applied. For RLQuest that is fine: a viewpoint is a point, and the app checks your route reached it rather than asking what you saw. The tiles fill in either way.
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.
