Rhone Glacier Tours and Tickets

There are plenty of ways to experience the Rhône Glacier. Looking at ratings and reviews previously given by customers, these are the best tours available right now:

• 6-Day Drive 9 Swiss Passes, Glacier Express Route +Stelvio, Italy
• 4-Day Swiss Alps Porsche Drive: Interlaken, Furka-Grimsel-Susten
• Day Swiss Alps Drive: Furka Grimsel Susten Passes in a Porsche

Prices to visit the Rhône Glacier depend on what you plan to do. You can hike around the glacier and admire the views for free, but there is a 9 francs admission fee to enter the ice grotto. Another way to see the glacier is by riding the Furka steam railway: single tickets start from 80 francs.

The Rhône Glacier is one of the most famous glaciers in the Swiss Alps and the source of the mighty Rhône River. Measuring among Switzerland’s longest glaciers, it’s also one of the most accessible by car or train and features an ice grotto and glacier hiking trail.

The Rhône Glacier is located in the Swiss Alps canton of Valais, close to Gletsch and the Furka Pass. To reach the glacier, it’s about a 2-hour drive from Interlaken or a 2.5-hour drive from Lucerne, along a winding mountain road accessible from June to October.

Whether you drive across the scenic Furka Pass or ride the Furka steam railway through the mountains, magnificent views are guaranteed at the Rhône Glacier. Follow the around 1-hour glacier trail from Furkastrasse to the recently formed glacial lake, then head underground to marvel at the ice grotto.

The ice grotto is a man-made cave carved into the ice along the southern tip of the Rhône Glacier. As the glacier is constantly moving, the ice cave is drilled afresh each year, allowing visitors to see inside the glacier and admire the natural ice formations up close.