Liestal

By train

Liestal is located on the main route from Basel SBB to Olten, and has direct connections to Lucerne, Zurich, Bern, Interlaken and Saint Gallen. There is also an S-Bahn service (S3, Olten - Liestal - Basel - Laufen - Porrentruy) connecting to many local villages along the way.
The railway station is also the terminus for the narrow-gauge Waldenburger train, which travels 13 km along the valley to Waldenburg at least twice every hour between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m.

By bus

Liestal can also be reached by bus from Basel, starting from Basel Aeschenplatz.

By car

• Bern about 1 hr (Highway A1)
• Milan about 3 hr and 30 mins (Highway A2)
• Paris about 5 hr (Highway A5)
• Berlin about 9 hr (Highway A9 and A5)
• Athens about 1 day (Highway E70)

At the train station of Liestal, several bus routes serve the surrounding area.

• Museum.BL

  phone: +41 61 552 59 86
  address: Zeughausplatz 28
  The local museum of canton Basel-Landschaft.

• Dichter- und Stadtmuseum

  phone: +41 61 923 70 15
  address: Rathausstrasse 30
  A museum for Poets

The Liestal carnival with the Chienbäse parade annually attracts thousands of visitors with its procession of flaming carts and torches. It is held on the Sunday night after Ash Wednesday.

• Restaurant Falken

  phone: +41 61 - 923 32 32
  address: Rheinstrasse 21

• Hotel Engel Liestal

  phone: +41 61 927 80 80
  address: Kasernenstrasse 10

• Kulturhotel Guggenheim

  phone: +41 61 534 00 02
  address: Wasserturmplatz 6

• The classic trip out of Liestal is to Hinteri Egg, the Hinteri Egg is a hill reaching 1,169 metres above sea level and is the highest point of the canton of Basel-Landschaft.
• Augusta Raurica just 13 km away, is one of the best preserved Roman settlements north of the Alps.
• The Wasserfallen region is a set of hills surrounding the village of Reigoldswil, a scenic 35 minutes bus ride from Liestal. From here you can take a cable car up into the hills where you can enjoy a rope park, many hikes, cross-country skiing or snow-shoeing, and finally hire a scooter to ride back down into the valley.
• Take the short bus ride up to Gempen (change at Seewen SO), where there is a viewing tower with views over the whole Basel region, from the Black Forest to the Alps. Then walk down towards the village of Dornach, and on the way visit the ruins of Schloss Dorneck.