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Montegallo Trail 548: Forca di Montegallo – Pizzo Cerqueto, Monti del Ceresa (AP)

S Start: Forca di Montegallo · 768 m A Finish: Pizzo Cerqueto, Monti del Ceresa (AP) · 1,350 m

Map and track: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

Trail facts

Start
Forca di Montegallo · 768 m
Finish
Pizzo Cerqueto, Monti del Ceresa (AP) · 1,350 m
Route
one way
Trail marker
548
Municipality
Montegallo

Montegallo Trail 548 leads from the Forca di Montegallo, a pass at about 770 m, to the summit of Pizzo Cerqueto, 1,348 m, in the Monte Ceresa group. The start is in the municipality of Montegallo. It takes 1 hour and 40 minutes to go up and 1 hour and 20 minutes to come down.

Distance
4.18 km
Elevation gain
+607 m
Elevation loss
−24 m
Lowest point
768 m
Highest point
1,351 m
Difficulty
E, hiking
Time
2 h 35 min (estimate)

From the OpenStreetMap track and the Copernicus DEM profile; time is an estimate.

Before you go

Forecast at the start

  1. Today12° / 6°0.2 mmCloudy

Forecast by MET Norway, updated automatically · license CC BY 4.0

Rules and orders: Park website. Snow and avalanches: Meteomont bulletin.

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Elevation profile
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Ascent
607 m
Descent
24 m
Lowest point
768 m
Highest point
1,351 m

Elevations: Copernicus DEM GLO-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018.

Download GPXKML for Google Earth

Indicative OpenStreetMap track: check the markers and trail conditions on site.

The route of Trail 548

It is just over four kilometers of continuous climbing, with about 600 m of elevation gain and almost no downhill sections: the trail starts at the pass and goes straight to the summit, the highest point of the route. There are no villages or springs marked along the track.

Trail 548 technical details

Difficulty grade E, hiking. The trail is 4.5 km long, with 614 m of ascent and 41 m of descent. It is a one-way route: the descent is by the same path, or hikers can continue along the ridge.

Trail 548 map

Trail 503 passes over Pizzo Cerqueto, the long ridge route that runs from Pastina to Monte Ceresa and Colle Galluccio: trail 548 is therefore also a shorter way up to that ridge.

Nearby

Straight-line distances.