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Parco Naturale Puez-Odle

Trentino-Alto Adige

This nature park protects a huge, treeless upland of pale dolomite between Val Gardena and Val di Funes, a landscape that feels closer to a lunar plateau than typical Alpine terrain. The Odle group's needle-like towers rise abruptly along the northern rim, and the plateau itself hosts alpine choughs, ptarmigan and occasional ibex.

Duration
5 hours
Distance
13 km
Elevation
+750 m
Best season
June – September

Highlights

  • Vast bare karst plateau
  • Jagged Odle spires
  • Alpine chough and ptarmigan habitat

With your dog

High-altitude trail through pasture and scree, dogs on leash.