Titisee is the southern Black Forest’s holiday lake: a glacial lake about 2 km long below the Feldberg, the highest mountain in the Black Forest. Its northern shore is a lively promenade of hotels, cafés, cuckoo-clock shops and boat hire; the southern shore is quiet forest.
It is a very different place from the Mummelsee — bigger, busier and made for swimming and boating in summer — and it makes an easy day trip if you are also visiting Freiburg or Triberg.
Top things to do at Titisee
Get out on the water
Hire a pedal or rowing boat, or take a short sightseeing cruise around the lake. In summer, lidos along the shore make it one of the Black Forest’s favourite swimming lakes.
Walk the lakeside path
A path runs all the way round the lake — about 6 km, easy and mostly shaded on the southern shore.
Cake and clocks on the promenade
Seestraße, the lakeside promenade, is lined with cafés serving Black Forest cake and shops selling cuckoo clocks and smoked ham.
How to get to Titisee
- From the Mummelsee: around 2–2.5 hours by car, so it is best combined with a night in Freiburg or the southern Black Forest.
- By train: Titisee station is on the Höllentalbahn from Freiburg, roughly 40 minutes.
- On a tour: the Freiburg, Titisee & Triberg day trip from Strasbourg includes time at the lake.
Insider tips
- Titisee is busiest at weekends in summer; the southern shore path is much quieter than the promenade.
- If you only have time for one lake, the Mummelsee is easier to reach from Baden-Baden and Strasbourg.
Best tours & tickets for Titisee
These top-rated experiences are the easiest way to see Titisee and the rest of the Black Forest:
Small-group day trip from US$141 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
Walking tour from US$15 Freiburg: Gässle, Bächle and More City Tour
With more than three thousand reviews, this is the most popular way to get to know Freiburg, the sunny capital of the southern Black Forest — handy if you are combining the Mummelsee with Titisee and the south.
- The minster and the Münsterplatz market
- The little Bächle water channels
- Hidden lanes of the old town
