Short Spring After-Work Walk from Zug to Neuheim/Sihlbrugg

(Post published on Feb.25, 2023)

Friday March 31, 2017 -- It was a decent early spring day and we decided on a "quick" walk after work as we were both able to get off work earlier. 

We went not far from home, only a 20-minute bus ride to a small gorge through which the Lorze River runs (our local river). Our walk took us to the river at the bottom of the gorge, past the Baar Limestone Caves (Höllgrotten), up through the farmland where the first cherry trees or apricot trees are already in full bloom (about 2 weeks early this year) and newborn lambs can be observed in the barns, and to the main road in Sihlbrugg to catch a bus back home. 

The walk was exactly 6 km and took us 1 hour and 30 minutes.

The two Tobel Bridges: In the front the old bridge (no longer in use), in the back the new one.

Lorze River

At the Limestone Caves

Limestone formations

There's a restaurant here

Mini caves for the ducks on someone's private grounds.

The stairs for this little structure are carved right out of the boulder.

Restaurant Höllgrotten, opens after April 1st, so no stopping for something to drink. 

These lambs are so new they can barely walk yet.

Newborn lambs, a sure sign of spring. 

VIDEO:

Lambs looking for something to drink...

Cherries or Apricots are already flowering.

Quaint farmsteads in our beautiful Zuger countryside.

Passing through the farms of Neuheim

Passing through the farms of Neuheim

Our walk from the Lorze Gorge to Sihlbrugg

An easy 5-6 km walk after work on a spring day. 

Other hikes or bike rides we did that passed by the Limestone caves (which we have never been in yet!)