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The parks of the Dolomites

Much of the Dolomites lies inside a park: nine in all — six nature parks, one national park and two regional parks — each with its own boundaries, rules and gateways. Here is a page for each, with the area declared by the park authority, the year it was founded and our pages that fall inside it.

The rules that apply in every park are in the guide to the nature parks of the Dolomites.

South Tyrol

A valley floor in the Fanes-Sennes-Prags Nature Park in autumn, with a stream, yellow larches, a gravel road and snow-dusted Dolomite walls behind25,485 hectares

Nature park · since 1980

Fanes-Sennes-Prags Nature Park

25,485 hectares between Prags, Enneberg and Toblach: the karst plateaus of Fanes and Sennes, Plätzwiese, the lakes, where to enter and what you may do.

A trail crossing a stony plateau in the Tre Cime Nature Park, with patches of snow, two small lakes on the left and a large Dolomite wall behind11,878 hectares

Nature park · since 1981

Tre Cime Nature Park

11,878 hectares around Toblach, Sexten and Innichen: the park is entirely in South Tyrol, the toll road is not. How it is built, how to enter, what is banned.

The Pizes de Puez with the coloured Cretaceous marls and the grassy terraces of the Puez plateau, under a sky with white clouds10,729 hectares

Nature park · since 1978

Puez-Odle Nature Park

10,729 hectares between Passo delle Erbe and the Gardena Pass: the Odle peaks, the Puez plateau, Vallunga, how to enter and what the rock tells.

The Schlern massif with the Santner and Euringer towers on the right, seen across the forest, with an alpine farm and a meadow in the foreground7,288 hectares

Nature park · since 1974

Sciliar-Catinaccio Nature Park

South Tyrol's first nature park, 1974: 7,288 hectares around the Schlern and the Rosengarten, how to enter, the driving ban and the visitor centres.

Trentino

The pale walls of the Brenta Dolomites above spruce forest, seen from the Ritorto hut area on a cloudy day62,050 hectares

Nature park · since 1988

Adamello Brenta Nature Park

620.50 square kilometres in Trentino across 30 municipalities: the Brenta valleys, the park houses, how you get in, where you park, where bears live.

The Pale di San Martino behind the park forest, with the stony bed of a torrent in the foreground and white clouds above the peaks19,726 hectares

Nature park · since 1988

Paneveggio-Pale di San Martino Nature Park

19,726 hectares in seven Trentino municipalities: the Pale, the Lagorai, the violin forest. Summer road closures, paid car parks and visitor centres.

Veneto

The grassy basin of Erera with its white stone huts, below the rounded ridges of the Piani Eterni, on a clear autumn day31,000 hectares

National park · since 1990

Dolomiti Bellunesi National Park

Just over 31,000 hectares in the province of Belluno, from 412 m in the valleys to 2,565 m on the Schiara: entry valleys, visitor centres and the rules.

The small Pizo lake at the foot of Monte de Fòses, with the pastures and scored rock of the karst plateau and the park peaks behind11,800 hectares

Regional park · since 1990

Ampezzo Dolomites Nature Park

The northern half of Cortina's territory: 118 square kilometres with the Tofana, Fanes, Lagazuoi, Croda Rossa and Cristallo, run by the Regole d'Ampezzo.

Friuli Venezia Giulia

The Campanile di Val Montanaia, an isolated rock tower among the spires of the Monfalconi, with a red bivouac hut in the snow in the foreground36,950 hectares

Regional park · since 1996

Friulian Dolomites Nature Park

36,950 hectares between Pordenone and Udine, with no villages and no road crossing it: the valleys, the Campanile di Val Montanaia, the centres, the rules.