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The best driving roads in the Dolomites
Nowhere else in Europe packs this much good road into this little space. The Dolomites give you pale limestone towers, hairpins stacked six deep, and passes sitting so close together that you can drive four of them before lunch, which is more or less what the Sella Ronda loop is. These are the 24 we have mapped, from the 2,305 m Tre Cime toll road down.
Passo Sella9 mi · 21 min · 11 hairpinsView the roadbook ›
Summit
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2,245 msummitPasso Sella
A Dolomites pass beneath the sheer Sella massif.
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2,243 msummitPasso Pordoi
Flowing Dolomite hairpins on the legendary Great Dolomites Road.
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2,224 msummitPasso Giau
A wild, hairpin-stacked Dolomites pass above Cortina.
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2,122 msummitPasso Gardena
Part of the Sella Ronda at 2,121 m, hairpins tightening and releasing under pale Dolomite towers, with snow walls beside the road in spring.
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2,305 msummitTre Cime di Lavaredo Toll Road
Steep tolled hairpin ramp from Misurina up to Rifugio Auronzo beneath the Three Peaks.
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2,195 msummitPasso Valparola
A quiet, beautiful Dolomites pass beneath the Lagazuoi.
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2,104 msummitPasso Falzarego
The SR48 crests at 2,105 m between Cortina and Livinallongo, a leg of the storied Great Dolomites Road beneath the Tofane and the Lagazuoi.
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2,072 msummitPasso Fedaia
A wall of a climb beneath the Marmolada glacier.
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2,035 msummitPasso Valles
A quiet WWI supply road over a 2032 m saddle below the Pale di San Martino, linking Paneveggio in Trentino to Falcade in the Veneto.
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2,035 msummitPasso Manghen
A quiet, demanding climb over the Lagorai in Trentino.
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1,995 msummitPasso delle Erbe (Würzjoch)
Quiet high Dolomites pass under the Sass de Putia north face.
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1,979 msummitPasso Rolle
A forested Dolomites pass beneath the Pale di San Martino.
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1,921 msummitPasso San Pellegrino
A flowing, fully paved Dolomite pass between Moena and Falcade, topping out at 1918 m beside the Trevalli ski area with the Costabella and Cima Uomo walls overhead.
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1,881 msummitPasso Campolongo
A short Sella Ronda pass between Arabba and Corvara.
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1,817 msummitPasso di Lavazè
Forested plateau pass linking Val di Fiemme and Val d’Ega beneath the Latemar.
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1,814 msummitPasso Tre Croci
Forested Dolomites link from Cortina to Misurina.
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1,784 msummitForcella Staulanza
A scenic Dolomite pass at 1766 m wedged between Monte Pelmo and the Civetta massif, on the SP251 between the Zoldo and Cadore valleys.
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1,764 msummitPasso di Costalunga
A Dolomites pass past the emerald Karersee.
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1,643 msummitPasso Brocon
Scenic Lagorai pass of hairpins from Castello Tesino toward the Vanoi valley.
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1,642 msummitPasso Monte Croce di Comelico
The Kreuzbergpass at 1636 m, a well-graded SS52 saddle between the Sesto Dolomites and the Carnic Alps, linking San Candido to Santo Stefano di Cadore.
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1,619 msummitPasso Cibiana
A winding southern-Dolomite pass at 1530 m crowned by Fort Monte Rite and Reinhold Messner’s mountain museum, linking the Zoldo and Cadore valleys.
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1,611 msummitPasso Duran
Narrow quiet Giro climb between two Dolomite valleys.
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1,385 msummitPasso della Mendola (Mendel Pass)
Historic 17-hairpin wine-road climb from Caldaro up to the Mendel ridge.
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7 milongPasso San Boldo
A tiny pass of stacked hairpins built through the rock in 1918.
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