Lac des Taillères, Canton of Neuchatel, Switzerland

4.5 (32 reviews) Spent More than 3 hours Ranking #1 in La Brevine Bodies of Water

for ice skating or swimming

To most Swiss the name La Brévine is almost synonymous with 'Siberia of Switzerland', the place, where regularly the lowest temperatures are measured every winter, in January 1987 down to -41.8 °, the national record. Less people know that the high valley at a bit more than 1000m asl is a great place to visit any time of the year. Not only is La Brévine also an attractive, compact little village with several restaurants, but nearby can be found the second largest lake of the canton de Neuchâtel, the Lac des Tailleres. In winter people, who enjoy an invigorating cold, will go for ice skating on the frozen lake, while in summer the water temperatures, reaching up to 24° C, are ideal for swimming. Any time of the year the area offers itself for beautiful hikes. From Môtiers in the Val-de-Travers there is the historical hike 'Vy des Moines' to La Brévine. My choice had been the about 5h walk from the border village Les Verrières to here. The lake has a length of a bit less than 2km and is about 250m wide. On its northern side there are several typical farmhouses of the Jura, while the steeper southern side has forests, but als a log cabin and a holiday chalet for rent. To get to the village of La Brévine from the lake it is an about 1h walk, if one doesn't use the car road. Interesting is the fact that no river or brook can be seen flowing into or out of the lake. The lake gets fed by rainwater and the drain then disappears underground into a porous, cavernous rockbed just to come out again 6km away in the Val-de-Travers at the karst spring of St.Sulpice, which is the beginning of the river Areuse.
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