The dark lake of the Black Forest, where the legends live

From Strasbourg: Black Forest and Baden-Baden Day Trip

The best-reviewed way to reach the Mummelsee without a car. An English-speaking guide takes a small group across the Rhine to Baden-Baden, then climbs the Schwarzwaldhochstraße with photo stops before a proper break at the lake for lunch, cake and a walk along the shore.

• Guided stroll through Baden-Baden and the Lichtentaler Allee
• Viewpoints over the Rhine valley on the Black Forest High Road
• Free time and lunch at the Mummelsee

From Strasbourg: Black Forest Day Trip with Lake Mummelsee

Your own vehicle for up to four people and a relaxed pace: Baden-Baden in the morning, the Black Forest High Road at midday, lunch and Black Forest cake at the Mummelsee, then down the Baden wine route to the flower-hung village of Sasbachwalden. An audio guide in English, French or Spanish fills in the stories.

• Private car or van with pickup in Strasbourg
• Baden-Baden, the High Road and a long stop at the Mummelsee
• Wine-village finale in half-timbered Sasbachwalden

From Strasbourg: Black Forest Day Trip to Freiburg, Titisee & Triberg

The classic southern Black Forest loop in a single, well-paced day. It does not visit the Mummelsee, but it is the best way to add the region’s other icons — Titisee, the Triberg waterfalls and the cuckoo-clock makers — to a trip based in Strasbourg or the Rhine valley.

• Old-town Freiburg with its minster and Bächle channels
• Time on the shore of Lake Titisee
• Triberg — waterfalls and cuckoo-clock craft

The Best in Baden-Baden and Blackforest

A private, flexible day for up to six people starting in the spa town itself. The guide shapes the route around your interests — thermal baths, wine cellars, Black Forest food and the forest roads above Baden-Baden — which makes it the natural choice if you want someone else to handle the driving.

• Casino, Kurhaus and Lichtentaler Allee with a private guide
• Black Forest food and historic wineries
• Forest scenery tailored to your group

Frankfurt: Baden-Baden, Black Forest & Strasbourg Guided Tour

Two countries in one long day from Frankfurt: the Belle Époque spa town of Baden-Baden, a taste of the northern Black Forest, then across the Rhine to Strasbourg. A good fit if Frankfurt is your only base and you want the region’s highlights in one go.

• Baden-Baden’s spa quarter and Kurhaus
• A scenic Black Forest stretch
• Afternoon in Strasbourg’s old town

Frankfurt to Black Forest, Baden-Baden & Freiburg by Car

A private driver and a flexible itinerary through the Black Forest, Baden-Baden and Freiburg. Because the route is yours to shape, it is one of the few ways to include the Schwarzwaldhochstraße and a stop at the Mummelsee on a day out of Frankfurt — just ask when you book.

• English-speaking driver, pickup anywhere in Frankfurt
• Route tailored to you — ask for the High Road and the Mummelsee
• Baden-Baden and Freiburg on the same day

Best of Baden-Baden: Guided City Tour

Ninety minutes that explain why kings, empresses and Dostoevsky all ended up in Baden-Baden — and why the town is now part of the UNESCO “Great Spa Towns of Europe”. Inexpensive, well-reviewed and the perfect warm-up before you drive up to the Mummelsee.

• Kurhaus, casino and the Trinkhalle
• Roman bath remains and the thermal quarter
• Stories of the royals and writers who came to take the waters

From Heidelberg or Baden-Baden: Snowshoe Hike in the Black Forest

In a good winter the ridge along the High Road lies under deep snow, and snowshoes are the best way into it. This guided small-group day takes care of the route and the logistics; you bring warm layers. Availability depends on the snow, so check dates early.

• Snowshoe hiking in the high Black Forest
• Pickup available from Heidelberg or Baden-Baden
• Small group, winter season only

Mummelsee

The legendary lake of the northern Black Forest

A dark, fir-ringed cirque lake at 1,036 m, scooped out by an Ice Age glacier below the Hornisgrinde. Walk the 800 m loop, hire a pedal boat, hear the legend of the water sprites and eat Black Forest cake on the terrace of the lakeside hotel.

Hornisgrinde

The rooftop of the northern Black Forest

At about 1,164 m the Hornisgrinde is the highest summit in the northern Black Forest — a broad, windswept plateau of raised bog and dwarf pine right above the Mummelsee. A boardwalk crosses the moor, and on clear days the view runs across the Rhine plain to Strasbourg and the Vosges.

Black Forest High Road (B500)

Germany’s classic ridge-top drive

The Schwarzwaldhochstraße runs about 60 km along the ridge from Baden-Baden to Freudenstadt, mostly between 800 and 1,000 m. It is one of Germany’s oldest scenic routes, and the Mummelsee sits halfway along it — the natural stop on any drive.

Black Forest National Park

Wilderness in the making

Baden-Württemberg’s first national park, founded in 2014, covers around 10,000 hectares along the High Road on either side of the Mummelsee. Its visitor centre at Ruhestein, the wild Wildsee lake and the storm-forest trails show a forest being left to itself.

Allerheiligen Waterfalls & Abbey

Gothic ruins above a roaring gorge

Twenty-five minutes from the lake, the roofless Gothic church of a 12th-century Premonstratensian abbey stands in a green valley near Oppenau. Below it, the Lierbach stream tumbles through a narrow gorge in a chain of cascades reached by stairs and footbridges.

Baden-Baden

The Belle Époque spa town at the start of the High Road

Roman baths, a glittering casino, the Lichtentaler Allee and two great thermal spas: Baden-Baden is where the Black Forest High Road begins and where most Mummelsee visitors sleep. It is part of the UNESCO “Great Spa Towns of Europe” site.