What to do in the area

Setting off on foot from the Antica Locanda, you can visit the hamlets and mountain pastures of Montescheno.
  • Vallemiola (approx. 20-30 mins, on a driveable road), you can continue on a path until Aulamia (another 45 mins), a delightful mountain pasture, St. Roch's feast day on 16 August.
  • Barboniga, (approx. 10 minutes, continuing on the asphalt road). From here you can climb to Valleggià (statues and paintings by the deceased painter/sculptor Giorgio da Valleggia) or continue to Zonca
  • Carnation (approximately 50 minutes on foot). From here you can go to Crop (another 15 mins, head up immediately after the fountain on the left) or continue on the dirt road until Dream (1 hour remaining) and do a loop by going to Aulamia, or to go back.
  • Alpe Faiu (leaving Valleggia on the left, approximately 1.5 h) and the Scoundrel (another 20 mins) where the road ends.

To see in Valle Antrona:

  • Antrona Lake (easy circular walk for everyone)
  • Horses in Cheggio di Antrona
  • Rifugio Andolla (2.5 hours) summer only
  • Lake Campliccioli
  • Bordo (Borgomezzavalle), Tibetan village
Challenging hike (due to duration, not exposure)
  • Moncucco
  • Cima Camughera
  • Pizzo Castello
  • Alpe Ogaggia
  • Camposecco-Cingino Loop
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Cliffs and via ferratas
  • Falesia La Panoramica, Nibbio di Mergozzo
  • Pallanzeno cliff, behind the power station
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  • Premia cliff, near the Orridi (gorges)
  • Ferrata di Gabi, climbing towards the Simplon Pass
  • Ferrata Picasass, Baveno
  • Montorfano Ferrata
To visit:
  • Domodossola, Market Square and the Sacred Mount of Calvario
  • Macugnaga, a Walser village in the shadow of Her Majesty Monte Rosa
  • King's Sanctuary 
 
Local traditions and flavours
Recommendations
  • Use a trail app or use the paper map you'll find under the TV
  • Always leave written down at home, or tell someone, where you are going.

If there’s snow, you can ski in Cheggio, skate in Antrona, snowshoe in Cavallo di Rò