cross country tours | loppio adventure tour
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TIPS:keep your helmet always on and enjoy
With this tour we will get to know the Gresta Valley, also known as Trentino’s Garden. This is due to its vantage orographic position: it faces Lake Garda towards the south and the climate is just perfect for growing vegetables, in particular cabbage used to make sauerkrauts.
To get there we leave Arco by taking the forest rangers’ dirt road that from Bolognano cuts the ridge in a gradual and soft slope. The whole ascent will be in the woods, which we will exit once on the summit: the view from there is stunning.
It is now time to start our descent. All visible marks of mankind’s activity will be the perfect geometry of the fields and some trenches left by the Austro-Hungarians during World War I.
We will then enter the Loppio Valley and join the bicycle lane towards Nago. A last view of the Gulf of Torbole, a quick pass along its beaches and we are back home.
