The Stelvio Catalogue · 2025 Season
Six Routes Over the Roof of Lombardy.
Eighteen seasons of driving the 48 hairpins have taught us there is no single way up the Stelvio. Below: the six itineraries we run, the roads they trace, and the months they belong to.
Plan Your Stelvio DriveA note from the founders
How this catalogue came to be.
When we launched Stelvio Pass Travel Co. out of a converted stable on Via Roma in the spring of 2006, we had one car, two clients, and a hand-drawn map of the three access roads. The Prato side for its forty-eight hairpins, the Bormio side for its tunnels and terrace views, the Trafoi side for the wildest switchbacks any of us had ever driven.
Eighteen seasons later, the roads haven't changed. Our job has. We have hosted more than 11,400 guests on Stelvio itineraries since that first spring, refined every hairpin radius with our guides, walked every hotel corridor in Bormio, Santa Maria Val Müstair, and Trafoi, and earned the rare privilege of convoy access during the spring pass-opening ceremony. The six itineraries that follow are not a menu. They are the catalogue of every way we know to do this job well, written one season at a time.
Luca Bormolini & Giulia Vivaldini
Chapters · The Six Itineraries
Six ways to drive the Stelvio.
Each itinerary is a complete route sheet — roads, nights, vehicles, group size, and the calendar window we run it in. Pick the chapter that fits your party; we will tailor the rest on the concierge call.
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Self-Drive Classic
The original four-day ascent.
Our flagship itinerary, refined over eighteen consecutive seasons. Four days behind the wheel of a Porsche Cayenne or Alpine A110 across all three access roads, with a Bormio basecamp, two summit crossings, and a recovery day in the thermal baths. The route most of our 11,400 guests have driven first.
- Days
- 4
- Sides covered
- All 3
- Group size
- 2–6
- Best months
- Jun–Sep
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02
Guided Motorcycle Convoy
Twelve Multistradas up the pass.
A convoy of up to twelve riders on our reserved fleet of Ducati Multistrada and BMW R 1250 GS machines, led by a former Mille Miglia navigator. Three summit crossings, a Trafoi night, and a vintage sidecar evening in Bormio. Roadside support 24/7 across the National Park.
- Days
- 5
- Sides covered
- All 3
- Group size
- 6–12
- Best months
- Jun–Sep
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03
Giro Cyclist Edition
The pass as a categorical climb.
For the rider who treats the Stelvio as a category-one opponent. Six days on the bike, two summit ascents (the Prato classic and the harder Trafoi side), a support van on every kilometre, and a soigneur on call. Average daily elevation gain: 2,100 metres.
- Days
- 6
- Sides covered
- 2 + Trafoi
- Group size
- 4–8
- Best months
- Jul–Aug
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04
Luxury Lodge-to-Lodge
Five nights, five family-run rifugi.
A seven-day lodge-to-lodge drive from Bormio to Santa Maria Val Müstair and back, sleeping in our hand-picked portfolio of family-run rifugi and design chalets. Chauffeur option available; luggage moves ahead of you each morning. Featured in Condé Nast Traveller's 2024 '50 Greatest Drives'.
- Days
- 7
- Sides covered
- All 3
- Group size
- 2–4
- Best months
- Jun–Sep
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05
Photography Masterweek
Dawn on the 48 hairpins.
A working week for photographers, pairing two of our guides with a National Park warden for first-light ascents on each of the three sides. Includes a private pass-opening window shoot (late May / early June), a processing evening in Bormio, and a folio-ready 40-image edit.
- Days
- 6
- Sides covered
- All 3
- Group size
- 4–8
- Best months
- May–Jun
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06
Winter Bormio Basecamp
Six nights in the thermal valley.
For the months when the pass is closed to vehicles — roughly November through May. A Bormio basecamp itinerary built around the town's thermal baths, three days of piste skiing in Bormio Ski, and a final frontier day exploring the snowed-in hairpins as far as the road allows. Not a winter ascent tour.
- Days
- 6
- Sides covered
- Basecamp
- Group size
- 2–8
- Best months
- Nov–Apr
The three access roads
Which side will you climb?
Every Stelvio itinerary is built around these three roads. Each has its own character, its own hairpin count, and its own light at dawn.
Bormio · 14 hairpins
The longest climb of the three at 24 kilometres. Galleries carved through the granite, terraced hairpins above the valley, and the first turn onto the summit plateau. The side we open in spring.
Prato allo Stelvio · 48 hairpins
The classic side and the most photographed kilometre of paved mountain road in the Alps. Forty-eight numbered switchbacks climbing from the Vinschgau valley floor to the 2,758-metre summit.
Trafoi · 19 hairpins
The smallest and steepest of the three sides, climbing through larch forest into a high cirque beneath the Ortler. Our guides' preferred side for a solitary first-light ascent.
From inquiry to departure
Four steps from a first email to the first hairpin.
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Concierge call
A thirty-minute call with our Bormio team to walk through your party, your driving experience, and the chapter that fits. Multilingual in English, Italian, German, and French.
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Route confirmation
A confirmed itinerary sheet, day by day, with hotels named, hairpins counted, weather windows set, and a draft manifest for the National Park crossing.
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Vehicle or motorcycle assignment
From our fleet of 22 reserved Multistradas and R 1250 GS machines, or partner vehicles from Porsche, Alpine, and Audi. Every machine briefed and shakedown-driven before handover.
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On-the-ground handover in Bormio
A 90-minute briefing on Via Roma the morning of day one — radio check, route card, support contact, and a guided first ascent if you have asked for it. 24/7 roadside support for the rest of the trip.
Begin the catalogue
Read the chapter. Then drive it.
Tell us which itinerary caught you and we will write back the same day from Bormio — with a tailored route sheet, the calendar windows still open, and the concierge call booked.
Plan Your Stelvio Drive