KMC Day Trips

Day trips are a fun way to explore new places or revisit favorite old ones. I always see people ask for day trip ideas on a local Facebook traveling group so I came up with a list of places we have visited and places we plan to go on a day we have free. 

*some of these trips we stayed overnight but can easily be made into a (long) day trip


Belgium

Bastogne (USO trip) ..... 2 hours 20 minutes

France 

Bitche ..... 55 minutes
Forbach(Cora) ..... 40 minutes

Metz and Nancy ..... 1 hour 5o minutes / 1 hour 17 minutes

Paris (USO trip) ..... 4 hours
Paris (ICE tarin) ..... by train 3 hours

Strasbourg..... 1 hour 45 minutes

Strasbourg (Christmas Market)..... 1 hour 45 minutes
Verdun ..... 2 hours 

Wissembourg..... 1 hour 20 minutes

Germany
Annweiler am Tripels (Richard Löwenherz Fest)..... 55 minutes
Bernkastel Kues.... 1 hour 15 minutes
Bernkastel Kues (2nd trip).... 1 hour 15 minutes
Black Forest*..... 2 hours 20 minutes
Bonn (Haribo store)*..... 2 hours

Burg Berwartstein..... 1 hour

Burg Eltz and Cochem..... 1 hour 30 minutes
Burg Eltz and Cochem (2nd trip)..... 1 hour 30 minutes
Burg Eltz and Cochem (yes, again)..... 1 hour 30 minutes
Burg Frankenstein and Worms..... 1 hour 10 minutes
Colmar *..... 2 hours 25 minutes
Cochem by train..... 1 hour 10 minutes

Düsseldorf..... 3 hours
Erlebnispark Teufelstisch (Devil's Table)..... 40 minutes
Frankfurt..... 1 hour 30 minutes
Gartenschau Kaiserslautern..... 20 minutes
Hängeseilbrücke Geierlay ..... 1 hour 30 minutes

Heidelberg..... 1 hour 20 minutes
Heidelberg (2nd trip)..... 1 hour 20 minutes
Hitscherhof (Kurbisfest)..... 30 minutes
Homburg (Flohmarkt)..... 25 minutes
Idar Oberstein..... 40 minutes
Kaiserslautern (farmer's market)..... 25 minutes
Kaiserslautern (Monte Mare) ..... 40 minutes

Karstalschlucht..... 35 minutes

Köln (Cologne)*..... 2 hours 40 minutes
Kusel Castle..... 35 minutes
Landstuhl and Burg Nanstein ..... 10 minutes
Lichtenberg castle (Kusel Castle)..... 35 minutes
Luisenpark in Mannheim..... 1 hour 5 minutes
Mannheim..... 1 hour 5 minutes
Miesau(pool)..... 15 minutes
Neunkirchen (zoo and shopping)..... 35 minutes

Neustadt (crystal shopping)..... 4 hours

Nürnberg..... 3 hours 15 minutes
Otzenhausen (Keltischer Ringwall)..... 35 minutes
Portzberg..... 25 minutes
Ramstein (Freizeitbad Azur) ..... 15 minutes

Rhine River Cruise ..... 1 hour 5 minutes

Rothenburg ob der Tauber..... 2 hours 30 minutes

Rüdesheim am Rhein Weinfest..... 1 hour 25 minutes

Rüdesheim am Rhein with family..... 1 hour 25 minutes

Rüdesheim am Rhein Weinfest (2nd trip)..... 1 hour 25 minutes
Schloss Ludwigsburg, Schloss Lichtenstein & Burg 
Hohenzollern*..... 2 hours 10 minutes

Speyer..... 1 hour

Speyer (2nd trip)..... 1 hour
Stuttgart ..... 2 hours 15 minutes by car, 2 hours by train
St Wendel..... 40 minutes
Trier(Weihnachtsmarkt)..... 1 hour 5 minutes
Trier ..... 1 hour 5 minutes
Trier..... 1 hour 5 minutes
Wiesbaden ..... 1 hour 25 minutes
Wörsdorf (Hängeseilbrücke Geierlay)..... 1 hour 25 minutes
Zweibrücken (outlet & World of Fun)..... 30 minutes

Luxembourg

Chateau de Vianden..... 2 hours
Luxembourg City..... 1 hour 50 minutes

Switzerland

Gruyères (MWR trip) ..... 5 hours

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Next on our list of Day trips:
Ulm ..... 2 hours
Mainz ..... 1 hour
Hessen Park ..... 1 hour 50 minutes
Würzburg ..... 2 hours 20 minutes
Bacharach ..... 1 hour 6 minutes
Mespelbrunn Castle ..... 2 hours
Schloss Drachenburg ..... 2 hours 44 minutes