Trekking Italy's Northwestern Alps: Iconic Peaks and High-Altitude Journeys

Unforgettable Trails: Your next adventure in Italy's Northwest Alps

 Trekking is the quintessential slow journey, an activity that allows us to slow down our pace, get physical exercise, meet new people, and enter into total harmony with the surrounding nature as we walk.
If you are passionate about hiking and outdoor activities, North-West Italy is the perfect area for you: here is a selection of the most fascinating destinations in the region to discover with a backpack!

Trekking in Gran Paradiso

Let's resume our treks in North-West Italy starting from one of the most important national parks in Italy: the Parco Nazionale del Gran Paradiso!
Here you can undertake wonderful excursions and walks: from easier trails – suitable even for beginners – to multi-hour trips, discovering alpine pastures and ancient mule tracks, up to true high-altitude routes. Regardless of the level, all excursions will have as a backdrop snow-capped mountain peaks, forests and meadows dotted with flowers, lakes, and animals that make up unique wildlife.

• Why choose it: to discover the oldest Italian national park and its remote valleys
• Main access points: Valprato Soana (To)
• Most important refuges: Vittorio Emanuele II
• Top experience: Gran Paradiso National Park trekking tour

Trekking Monte Rosa and Cervino

Monte Rosa and Cervino are among the most famous and incredible mountains of the entire Alpine arc. The peak of Cervino is unmistakable, and the glaciers of Monte Rosa are of impressive beauty. Trekking between the two mountains explores the two valleys that host these giants of the Alps, among the most famous 4000-meter peaks on the continent. If you want to see grand mountains, perennial glaciers, and the highest peaks in Europe, this trek is for you.

• Why choose them: to enjoy awe-inspiring vistas over the most extensive glaciers of the Italian Alps!
• Main access points: Gressoney Staffal (Ao)
• Symbolic mountains and/or localities: Cervino
• Most important refuges: Ferraro, Gran Tournalin
• Top experience: trekking tour between Monte Rosa and Cervino

Trekking in Val d'Ossola

The Val d'Ossola is a land belonging to the ancient heart of the Alps, guarded by rugged mountains, endless forests, and high-altitude lakes. This area offers a great variety of trails, from simpler ones suitable for families to more challenging routes for experienced hikers. A territory to discover not only for trekking but also for fishing, gastronomy, and much more.

• Why choose it: to discover a wild area still little frequented by tourists
• Main access points: Domodossola
• Symbolic mountains and/or localities: Alpe Devero
• Most important refuges: Gattascosa, Parpinasca
• Itineraries: click here

Trekking Gran San Bernardo

In the Valle del Gran San Bernardo, you can still appreciate the true mountain, characterized by rugged and evocative landscapes of very ancient origin. This valley, in fact, is considered the gateway to the most important road to Italy in the Middle Ages, the Via Francigena (Francigena Way).
The quintessential summer activities in the area can only be trekking, mountaineering, and walks: there are truly options for all levels.

• Why choose it: to travel a section of the famous Via Francigena
• Main access points: Aosta, Etroubles
• Symbolic mountains and/or localities: Colle del Gran San Bernardo
• Most important refuges: Frassati
• Most famous routes: Via Francigena - discover the itinerary

Trekking Monte Bianco

The Monte Bianco massif offers a vast choice of itineraries of different levels, short or long duration, all extremely evocative: a waking dream for all hiking enthusiasts! The greatest mountain in the Alps can offer you the opportunity to traverse glaciers, explore the valleys of Courmayeur at the foot of the peaks that made mountaineering history, relax at the thermal baths of Pre Saint Didier, and ascend on the brand new Skyway cable car!

• Why choose it: to tackle the most famous and frequented tour in the Alps!
• Main access points: Courmayeur (Valle d’Aosta), Chamonix (France)
• Symbolic mountains and/o localities: Monte Bianco, Punta Helbronner
• Most important refuges: Rifugio Torino, Rifugio Elisabetta, Refuge de la Croix du Bonhomme
• Top experiences: Mont Blanc glacier excursion - Trekking Tour du Mont Blanc - Vallée Blanche traverse with an Alpine Guide

Trekking Valli del Rutor

Excursions in the Valli del Rutor offer one of the most suggestive panoramas of the Alps. Thanks to its altitude and the open field of view from this summit, it is possible to see the Monte Bianco, Monte Rosa, Gran Paradiso, and Cervino groups with a single glance: a truly awe-inspiring panorama! The Cima del Rutor is also an opportunity to observe one of the most extensive glaciers in the Western Italian Alps, the Ghiacciaio del Rutor.

• Why choose it: to admire the region's most spectacular waterfalls and Italy's sixth-largest glacier
• Main access points: la Joux (La Thuile , AO )
• Symbolic mountains and/or localities: Cima del Rutor
• Most important refuges: Deffeyes, Rifugio degli Angeli
• Most famous routes: Sentiero del Centocinquantenario - discover the itinerary