PARCO NATURALE DEL GRAN BOSCO DI SALBERTRAND
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Natural park offering numerous trails and detailed hiking itineraries
The visitor center will provide you with detailed hiking itineraries. The vegetation changes with altitude: down below is the latifolia forest, with ash, alder, birch and beech, and up above the conifers, with Scots pine, red fir, white fir, larch and cembro pine. Above the tree belt, shrubs such as mugho pine bushes, junipers and rhododendrons. The fauna is well represented: deer, mouflons, roe deer, alpine chamois and, more recently, wolves. In spring, marmots can be seen in the alpine meadows, while predators include ermines and badgers, and birds include black grouse, ring-necked blackbirds, bartavelles and great horned owls.
Access:
From Exilles. Leave the Route Nationale 24 du Montgenèvre, go through the village of Exilles and, after 500 m, turn left at the crossroads towards Chambon, then continue on a path that climbs, with many twists and turns, to Sapé (1,187 m).
From the Assietta road. Between the Susa and Chisone valleys, at 2,400 m, this high-mountain trail runs along the park's upper boundary, meeting several paths that descend into the protected area.
Hiking. Numerous well-marked hiking trails (from two hours to a full day). IGN map available from tourist offices. The site's protected area lies mainly between Salbertrand and Montgenèvre.
