Alpe Devero is an alpine resort located in the center of the Devero Valley, surrounded by some of the most impressive peaks of the Lepontine Alps. A little jewel of rare beauty, enjoyable in all seasons, a paradise for lovers of hiking, mountaineering, skiing and ski mountaineering.
The small town is a hamlet of Baceno, a town in the province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola. The Alpe, a historic settlement of pastures for the breeding of livestock, is located at 1634 meters above sea level and is located within the protected area of the Alpe Veglia and Alpe Devero Natural Park.
Inserted within the Veglia-Devero Natural Park (established in 1995), a large part of the territory of Alpe Devero is subject to environmental protection that preserves its pristine beauty.
When it is there for the first time overlooking the plain of Alpe Devero, you are impressed by the uniqueness of the landscape, which offers spectacular photographic views in every season.
As a frame of the green meadows scattered with flowers in spring and summer, of the beautiful stone and wood huts, collected in small groups and the stream that flows by roaring, the trees of Cervandone (3211 m), the Punta della Rossa (2888 m) and the crace crampiolo (2776 m) are raised while larch, fir trees and the thick underforest of rhododendrons and the sweetest pangs.
In autumn the landscape is inflamed by being ochre, red and orange while in winter the snow envelops everything with its white and silent blanket, transforming the Alpe Devero into an enchanted landscape.
The Alpe Devero, offers numerous excursions of different difficulty and length, both winter, for lovers of ski mountaineering and snowshoes, and summer, for trekking lovers. There are also mountain bike and down-the-line trails. Among the various options it is possible to reach both the Val Formazza and the Antigorius Valley and the Val Divedro.
Entering the plain, behind the pension Fattorini, a beautiful building of the beginning of the twentieth century, we can reach the attacks of numerous climbing routes that are located on the Cervandone and Punta Rossa and the famous Lake of the Witches while on the left start the paths that from Alpe Devero allow you to reach the Val Buscagna, Lake Nero, the Alpe Veglia and the Combi Lanza bivouac, a point of support for the walls.
The plain of Devero is a large plateau surrounded by the larch woods and the peaks of Monte Cervandone, Punta della Rossa, Pizzo Cornera and Pizzo Fizzi. Just north-east of the town of the Devero alp and Crampiolo is Lake Codelago (also known as Lake Devero), an artificial basin that occupies much of the valley floor of the Devero Valley.
In the village there are typical examples of local architecture: huts with pious roofs. It can be reached from the A26 Voltri-Sempione motorway, up to Gravellona Toce, from here proceed to Domodossola exiting towards the Antigorio-Formazza Valley, continue to Goglio, a hamlet of Baceno, and from here you go up to the valley of Devero through a municipal road about 7 km long. The access and circulation of private vehicles are prohibited, paid parking is set up before entry.
From Alpe Devero it is possible to reach Binn in Switzerland passing (expert hikers) for the Bivacco Combi and Lanza at 2,429 meters in Val Buscagna, built by the CAI of Omegna in memory of the young members Luigi Combi and Piero Lanza died on 19 July 1970 on the Canalone Marinelli (East Wall of Monte Rosa).
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