The BF Railway is not the only scenic train line of interest. Villingen is also a very attractive town if you venture that far up the railway. To that list I would add Haslach (costume museum, attractive town, silver mine "Segen Gottes", and a memorial site on the location of a former Nazi work-camp called "Gedenkstätte Vulkan" - hit the "Google translate" button on this page for more info.) Both places are just outside of town. This page includes links to information on some of the towns. Not all stops are shown (the recently added Gutach Freilichtmuseum stop, for example.) Of these, Gengenbach is perhaps the most attractive. Offenburg IMHO is less interesting and far less attractive than the other BF Railway towns - many of them also KONUS towns - further along the line. I have not been on the railroad in the last month. I like trains, so I found the Schwarzwaldbahn Erlebnispfad at the Triberg train station particularly interesting. Titisee and Schluchsee offer a contrast between a touristy lake overrun with international tourists and a larger lake that is popular with German vacationers. The Open Air Museum at Gutach is pretty awesome (train stop right beside it). I also enjoyed Alpirsbach (great kloister that later became a boarding school and has an area of its museum that shows artifacts from 16th century boarding school life) and Shiltach (lots of half-timbered houses/buildings). I stayed in Gengenbach, which is very cute. No ticket purchase required! The page I linked has a link to the 2017 English flyer. If you stay in one of the towns that offers the Konus Card with your lodging (Offenburg is one <- THIS IS WRONG! My apologies! Posting too late at night!), you get free transport on the regional trains (and on buses).
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