MTB Tour of the Piancavallo Alpine Pastures (M006)

Starting from the parking lot, turn immediately right onto Via Collalto, which winds uphill past the small houses and apartment complexes of Piancavallo. Stay on this road, even past the signs for the CAI trail. When you’re almost at the top of the climb, near the last house on Via Collalto, a forest road branches off to the left into the beech forest. Follow the trail for about one kilometer until you easily reach a pasture, where you’ll cross the CAI “Passeggiata” trail. From here—with less experienced riders walking their bikes—follow the CAI signs up a narrow but short trail that crosses a small saddle and then leads downhill to Casera Caseratte. Get back on your bike and descend quickly through the Candaglia pastures. Pass Casera del Medico and Casa Barzan until you reach the intersection with the Candaglia road. Follow the paved road uphill for a few hundred meters until you reach a new intersection marked by the CAI, where you turn left onto a forest trail that leads immediately to Casera Collalto. After a few dozen meters, the trail levels off noticeably: a gently sloping forest trail leads you back to the starting point. The trail emerges just before the Piancavallo roundabout; after a few hundred meters on the paved road, you’ll return to the parking lot.