The Piedmont region in northwest Italy is extraordinarily varied. Exciting hikes and great hiking tours await you here. Piedmont is also a region of pleasure: the world-famous wines, truffles and many other local specialities of Piedmontese cuisine enjoy an excellent reputation and are worth the trip for many people. Your hiking trails and many a climb will lead you to hospitable hotels and inns.
Maps and trails
The 10 most beautiful hikes in Piemonte
Hiking Trail
· Cesana Torinese
Traces of Nature
recommended route
Difficulty
easy
1.5 km
1:00 h
89 m
26 m
An Interactive Trail in the Monti della Luna: designed to bring people of all ages closer to nature and the Alta Valle Susa region through play, discovery, and exploration.
Hiking Trail
· Lago Maggiore
Lake Maggiore | Hike to Monte Limidario (Gridone)
recommended route
Difficulty
T3
difficult
5.5 km
3:30 h
1,125 m
1 m
A fantastic day hike with the option to spend the night at Refugio Al Legn (1,785 m) and enjoy impressive views of Lake Maggiore. This varied hike takes you through a forest of laburnum trees and up into scenic alpine terrain above 2,000 meters.
Hiking Trail
· Ligurian Alps
From Carnino to Rifugio Mongioie
recommended route
Difficulty
T2
moderate
9.9 km
4:00 h
655 m
655 m
Basically an easy hike, but the removal of the bridge over the water-rich Vene stream and the resulting detour of the path makes it somewhat more demanding, including regarding the altitude meters to be covered.
Hiking Trail
· Ligurian Alps
On Monte Armetta (1,739 m)
recommended route
Difficulty
T1
easy
7.8 km
3:20 h
479 m
479 m
A tour especially recommended in spring because of the extensive and diverse flora.
Hiking Trail
· Sauze d'Oulx
SAUZE D'OULX ring Lake Laune - Mount Genevris
recommended route
Difficulty
T2
difficult
9.6 km
3:45 h
677 m
453 m
Challenging loop tour that allows, once you reach Mount Genevris, to return to Lake Laune thanks to the Park road from Col Blegier to Horseshoe.
Hiking Trail
· Cottian Alps
Beth Lakes and Arcane Hill: between rock, sky and water, a dreamy, nature hike
recommended route
Difficulty
T2
difficult
12 km
5:35 h
1,296 m
787 m
Extraordinary hiking route, with pretty high mountain whiners and nice wildlife sightings: ibex, eagles, griffon vultures, white partridges.
Hiking Trail
· Sauze d'Oulx
SAUZE D'OULX ring Tachier - Sportinia
recommended route
Difficulty
T2
difficult
7.8 km
3:15 h
591 m
591 m
Hike is not too strenuous although in the Tachier-Sportinia section it requires a good physical commitment as the trail is quite steep in places.
Hiking Trail
· Oulx
SAUZE D'OULX ring Gran Villard - Croce Ghiotti
recommended route
Difficulty
T2
moderate
7 km
2:25 h
365 m
363 m
Trail with moderate slope that becomes steeper in the section from Monfol to the Cross. To make it easier walk along the Gran Bosco forest trail on the outward and not on the return.
Hiking Trail
· Pragelato
Granges - Costa Piana Hill: in the footsteps of the Glorious Repatriation (GRV)
recommended route
Difficulty
T2
moderate
6.1 km
3:00 h
829 m
59 m
It is the 18th stage of a long journey that in 1689 brought back a thousand exiles, who had emigrated for religious causes and came from Switzerland, to regain their homelands.
Hiking Trail
· Province of Turin
Hare and Thinking Trail Ring
recommended route
Difficulty
T1
easy
4.4 km
1:45 h
300 m
301 m
Easy loop hike on consistently well-marked trails, here proposed in a counterclockwise direction. Route characterized by series of wooden signs reciting maxims and aphorisms


