Tour of the 5 Lakes of Valgoglio

Small stretches with metal safety chains, just to avoid slipping but if there are people who suffer from vertigo a little attention will be needed. The parking lot where you leave your car costs 5 euros during the summer. The ring can be covered both in the direction of the black lake first or leaving the black lake last. The stretch that goes up to the black lake is steeper and with "steps" that I preferred to do uphill.

They call it the tour of the 5 lakes but I counted 7. Parking in Bortolotti in Valgoglio (few free spaces on the side of the road, otherwise large paid parking lot 5 euros). I did the tour clockwise as I was advised and in my opinion the right choice. The upper Campelli lake is too beautiful not to take a regenerating bath, bring your swimsuit!

Since 2024 is a year in which, for health reasons and not only, I have done much less hiking than I would have liked, I am always torn in choosing my destination. On the one hand I want to return to the great classics, that is, those destinations that each of us does at least once a year, while on the other I am attracted by new things or those destinations that have been buried in the drawer of desires for years. This week too, after having looked for a mental solution, I opted for a heartfelt solution and the great classic won, namely the Valgoglio lakes. The positive side is that, this week too I do not need to go into detail, as it is a very well-known destination and about which many people before me have written rivers of words, or rather lakes of words. For those who do not know them, I would just like to point out that although it is nothing particularly difficult, it is still not a destination for everyone. Some parts of the trail are exposed and equipped, even if I repeat nothing impossible. Personally, with snow and especially ice, I recommend it only to truly expert people. Another negative thing is the fact that it is a path that devastates the legs of people going down, because of the steps, natural or not, very high. Of course, quite useless advice for young or well-trained hikers, while very useful for those like me, who have well-oiled joints only going uphill, while going downhill we start to creak like a rusty wheelbarrow.

Wonderful tour in terms of landscape that touches a large number of lakes, mostly artificial or in any case expanded by dam systems. The loop is quite demanding in terms of length and height difference, almost all concentrated in the first part of the route, but without technical difficulties. In the sense proposed, between Lake Cernello and Lake Campelli Basso there is a short stretch equipped with steel cables, immediately after a steep ladder, but the path, although quite exposed just before the ladder, is very wide and well maintained and, in the absence of ice or snow, presents no difficulty unless you suffer terribly from a fear of heights. For the rest it is a wonderful excursion always at a short distance from stretches of water.

Circular route from Bortolotti di Valgoglio passing through: - Lake Sucotto (3.1 km) - Lake Cernello (4.0 km) - Lake Campelli Basso (4.9 km) - Lake Campelli Alto (5.3 km) - Lake Aviasco (6.4 km) - Black Lake (7.4 km) - Canali Lake (8.0 km) - Resentino Lake (8.5 km)

Strava elevation gain 1077 What can I say, always a nice ride, with a visit to the Valrossa lakes on the way to Cabianca, a hot day and as always great company

After many years, today I had the opportunity to redo a classic excursion in the Orobie Alps, one of those considered to be the most beautiful in terms of landscape: the tour of the five lakes of Valgoglio. The tour, starting from the town of Valgoglio (Bortolotti parking lot) is partly a ring, passable indiscriminately in both directions and includes a wooded part common to the outward and return journeys that overcome, in about two kilometers, a difference in altitude of about 800 meters. Having reached the first Enel stations and chosen the direction of travel of the ring, I continued along paths of medium difficulty, skirting the five lakes and crossing an intact and pure Alpine landscape. There are two refuges along the route, the Lago Nero hut and the Cernello hut.

Circular route from Valgoglio passing through: - Lake Sucotto - Lake Cernello - Lake Campelli Basso - Lake Campelli Alto - Lake Aviasco - Black Lake - Black Lake Hut - Resentino Lake