cable-car from the Kräbel station on the Arth-Rigi-Bahn line to Rigi-Scheidegg. Recreation Mount Rigi offers an area for recreation and sports measuring approximately offering a variety of well-maintained walking trails or mountain hikes where visitors can have a panoramic view of from various marked points. There are also numerous public grilling stations located near the hiking trails. Rigi is also a destination for people practising winter sports and other winter recreation activities. Rigi in culture Rigi has been featured in many works of art, including both paintings and literary publications. Perhaps the most famous paintings of the Rigi were a series by J. M. W. Turner, including The Blue Rigi, Sunrise, several of which are in the collection of the Tate Britain art gallery in London. Mark Twain also visited Rigi during his tour of Central Europe in the late 1870s, and wrote about his travels in chapter 28 of his A Tramp Abroad. There is a Catskills resort called the Rigi Kulm in Abraham Cahan's novel The Rise of David Levinsky (1917). The Rigi, a downhill road in Wellington, New Zealand, is named for the mountain and for many years was used as a main thoroughfare for coach riders. On 9 July 1868, during a three-week tour through Switzerland, Gerard Manley Hopkins ascended Rigi-Kulm, the highest peak of the Rigi massif: "From Lucerne by steamer to Küssnacht, thence walk across to Immensee, thence by steamer over lake of Zug to Arth, whence up the Rigi." Geology Technically, the Rigi is not a part of the Alps, and belongs instead to the Swiss plateau. It is mostly composed of molasse and other conglomerate, as opposed to the Bündner schist and flysch of the Alps. Gallery See also List of mountains of the canton of Schwyz List of mountains of Switzerland List of most isolated mountains of Switzerland List of mountains of Switzerland accessible by public transport References External links Rigi on SummitPost Various maps from rigi.ch Rigi Kulm Mountains of Switzerland Mountains of the Alps Mountains of the canton of Schwyz Tourist attractions in Switzerland Cable cars in Switzerland Tourist attractions in the canton of Lucerne Tourist attractions in the canton of Schwyz One-thousanders of Switzerland