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Skiing Resorts
Abruzzo is also rich in important mountain resorts
which are suitable to either sportsmen or beginners,
as well as family groups. In winter, it offers a
wide array of facilities such as cableways and a
network of ski slopes, as well as snowboard,
snowrafting, sledge and dog-sled tracks.
Cross-country lovers will also find more than a
thousand different trails and itineraries running
all across the mountains of Abruzzo, while Alpine
skiing lovers can enjoy the highest peaks of this
chain, above all the Corno Grande.
The mountain
districts between the Gran Sasso and the Majella
mountains, the Sirente-Velino Park and the National
Park of Abruzzo, as far as the Cinque Miglia Plateau
and the Carseolani and Simbruini mountains, host 17
perfectly equipped skiing resorts which are any
winter sports lover’s paradise.
Prati di Tivo, on the
northern side of the Corno Piccolo peak, is the most
popular skiing resort in the province of Teramo;
Prato Selva, at the foot of the Mount Corvo woods,
is on the eastern side of the Gran Sasso; Campo
Imperatore and Monte Cristo, the highest winter
resorts in Abruzzo, are equipped with ski-lift
facilities which take skiers up to Monte Scindarella,
2.233 m.high. The plateau of Campo Imperatore is
equipped with cross-country skiing facilities, while
Gran Sasso canyons offer several off-piste as well
as alpine skiing itineraries. Other important names,
which are worth mentioning, are: Campo Felice,
Ovindoli, Marsia, Campo Rotondo, Pescasseroli,
Scanno, Roccaraso, Rivisondoli, Pescocostanzo,
Pizzoferrato and Gamberane, Passo Lanciano and
Maielletta, Campo di Giove, Passo San Leonardo.
 Besides
those listed above, Nordic ski lovers will find many
other districts exclusively equipped for
cross-country skiing: Ceppo, Santo Stefano di
Sassanio, Castel del Monte, Piano di Pezza, Opi,
Scanno, Bosco di Sant’Antonio.
There are also several long, difficult tracks which
are highly recommended to the most experienced
skiers only: “Tre Laghetti”, “Piano del Voltino”,
“Giro del Puzzillo”, “Valle della Dogana”, “Fosso
Fioio”, “Valle d’Arano” and “Cicerana”. Equally
popular and difficult the routes connecting
Macchiarvana to Pescasseroli and Pescasseroli to
Terraegna, as well as Val Fondello (from Passo Godi
to Ferroio di Scanno) and Valle Chiamano (from
Decentra to Piana Grande).
For Alpine ski lovers,
there is a number of highly recommended routes they
can measure themselves against: Monte Gorzano, the
high and low traverses of the Gran Sasso mountain,
Monte Camicia, “la Tavola”, “il Canalone Maiori”,
the southern side of the Sirente mountain, Val di
Rose, Mount Amaro, the “Fondo di Macella” gorge. |
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