Background For our first big summer trip of 2026, our family headed to Switzerland! We were inspired by pictures of alpine peaks, gorgeous train routes, and other travel bloggers raving about the country’s epic playgrounds. We loved spending a few days in the Jungfrau region using Wengen as our home base to explore misty mountains, gondola rides, and massive waterfalls. We also fell in love with the picturesque town of Lucerne, and even got to experience the local sports culture firsthand by catching a world hockey festival in Zurich! We love European travel because it always offers incredibly family-friendly towns, easy navigating with trains, and so much history and beauty. Traveling internationally with kids can be daunting, but with a little preparation, research, and tips from other travelers, we had an incredibly successful trip! This post covers our days in the Jungfrau region. For more on our Switzerland Adventure, see our posts here A week in Switzerland with Kids – Logistics and Itinerary for a Family Trip Zurich and Lucerne Highlights with Kids Jungfrau Region – 4 days in Wengen, Switzerland with Kids After an amazing couple of days exploring Lucerne, we packed up our bags and headed deep into the Swiss Alps. We chose Wengen as our home base for the next 4 days Train to Wengen We left Lucerne early in the morning by train and spent several hours winding through pretty landscapes, passing through Interlaken, down into the Lauterbrunnen, and finally catching the steep train up to Wengen. Our kids absolutely love train rides, and it is the perfect time for them to read and relax. Ellie kept busy with a new dot-to-dot activity book we brought along! Apartment home base Wengen is all about that cozy apartment life. We booked a beautiful local house via Interhome Apartment (which we found after searching on Booking.com). It was about a 10-minute walk from the Wengen train station. Having our own kitchen to cook in, separate bedrooms, and plenty of space to spread out made it the perfect family sanctuary after long days on the trails. An Early-Season Reality Check: Wengen is incredibly cute, but we ran into an interesting twist. Back home in the US, May was scorching hot, but in Switzerland, it was still very much early spring. A major theme of our stay was navigating early-season closures. The famous marble mazes in town weren’t set up yet, the local outdoor swimming pools hadn’t opened for the season, and several higher-altitude hiking trails were still closed due to snow! If you travel in the late spring, always check the local lift and trail status reports before you head out. Our 4-Day Jungfrau Itinerary Day 1: Arriving in Wengen & Trümmelbach Falls We arrived in Wengen in the early afternoon, unpacked our bags, and set out to explore the village. We grabbed some lunch, played a game on the giant life-size outdoor chess boards in the town center, and stopped by the local Coop grocery store to stock up on snacks. For our late afternoon adventure, we took the cogwheel train back down the mountain to the Lauterbrunnen stop and hopped on a local transit bus to Trümmelbach Falls. While some bloggers recommend squeezing this into a massive day trip, making it our sole afternoon activity was perfect. These are subterranean cave waterfalls with ten waterfalls hidden inside the mountain itself. It is incredibly loud, powerful, and absolutely spectacular to walk through. The sheer force of the water misting past you is something the kids will never forget! We took the bus and train back up to our apartment, whipped up an easy dinner in our kitchen, watched a hockey match on TV, and had a great, chill evening. Day 2: Männlichen Cow Playground, Lieselotte Trail, & Grindelwald This was one of the absolute best days of the entire trip! We purchased a 3-Day Jungfrau Travel Pass for all the gondolas and mountain trains. Money Saving Tip: Because we already had the  Swiss Half Fare Card, we got a discount on our 3-Day Jungfrau Pass. The kids were free with the family card. Morning: Cow Playground We started the morning by taking the quick cable car straight up from Wengen to Männlichen. We hung out at the outdoor tables at the restaurant and ate a scenic breakfast while the kids hit the legendary Alpine Cow Playground. The adults played on this playground too! It features a massive, multi-story wooden cow with a slide coming out of it, balancing ropes, swings, a mini bowling lane, and the most breathtaking mountain views backdrop you could ever imagine. Lieselotte Trail After playing, we picked up a free hiking map from the mountain restaurant and kicked off the Lieselotte Trail down to the Holenstein mid-station. This 3.5 km hike took us about 3 hours because it is packed with 13 interactive stations. The map has little punch-boxes, and the kids had to hunt for the hidden stamp locations at each stop. We got turned around once or twice and had to backtrack, but we found almost all of them! Along the way, the kids got to do a mountain long-jump, try blowing a real Swiss alphorn, play at a water mechanics table, and even practice “ax chopping” wooden logs. It’s an incredibly easy downhill walk with stunning views of the gondolas gliding overhead and plenty of fresh alpine water fountains to refill your bottles. At the very end near Holenstein, there is a fun little elevated tree-walk path to finish the trail. Grindelwald and Pfingstegg From Holenstein, we took the gondola down into the valley town of Grindelwald and grabbed some pizza for lunch (pricey, but standard for Switzerland!). Afterward, we headed over to Pfingstegg. Honest Blog Review: I wish I had researched this stop a bit better. Pfingstegg was not included in our Jungfrau Pass, so paying out-of-pocket for the separate cable car up plus the individual tokens for the activities made it quite pricey. Once at the top, the