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Stelvio, Gavia and Mortirolo

From Bormio: the Stelvio's 48 hairpins down to Prato, round through Val Mustair and back up the Umbrail, then the Gavia and Mortirolo.

Distance
134 miles (216 km)
Type
Loop
Where
Lombardy and South Tyrol

Plotted by us, not yet ridden

Click a dot for details. White dots are the stops, each with a bed search. Yellow dots are places to see.

Main roads

SS38LS/SP50SS4128559SS38 dir/BSS300SS42SS39SS42 dir/ASP27

From the map

Longest gap between fuel
28 miles
Fuel stations near the line
15
Curvature
308 ° a mile
Campsites within 2 km
17

Measured on the route line from OpenStreetMap data, which can be missing or out of date. Curvature is degrees of turning a mile, measured every 100 metres. On our routes they run from 6 on the E19 to 701 on the SP638.

Before you go

  • The Stelvio, Umbrail and Gavia are normally open from late May or June to October.
  • The Gavia and Mortirolo are narrow, with unguarded drops on the Gavia.
  • Weekends in summer are very busy. Go early.

On the way

  1. Bormio
  2. Stelvio Pass
  3. Trafoi
  4. Prato allo Stelvio
  5. Umbrail Pass
  6. Bormio
  7. Santa Caterina Valfurva
  8. Gavia Pass
  9. Ponte di Legno
  10. Edolo
  11. Mortirolo Pass
  12. Bormio
Ready to ride it?

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Plan it with dates in the tour planner

1Getting there

Most riders cross to Calais by Le Shuttle or a Dover ferry, or take a longer ferry nearer the route.

Compare every crossing

2Places to stay

Search beds in Bormio

3Cover

Check your bike insurance covers riding abroad, get travel insurance that covers motorcycling at your engine size, and breakdown cover that recovers a motorcycle in every country on the route.

What to check before you buy cover

The country on this route

What GOV.UK says riders need for it, checked 05/11/2026. Rules change, so read the official page before you go.

Italy

Money
Euro
Ride on the
Right
  • Riding into Milan or Rome? Milan has a congestion charge and Rome sometimes restricts traffic in its green band

On every trip abroad: your licence, insurance that covers riding abroad, the V5C and travel insurance with medical cover. The tour planner turns all of this into a checklist each rider in your group can tick off.

Places to see on the way

Castles, passes, viewpoints and more within easy reach of the line, in the order you reach them. Yellow dots on the map.

castle of Castelpoggio
Castle · 0.3 km off the route

castle of Castelpoggio

Castle in Ponte di Legno.

Photo: Syrio, CC BY-SA 4.0
Castle of San Faustino
Castle · 1 km off the route

Castle of San Faustino

Ruins of a castle in Grosio (Italy).

Photo: Gaggi Luca 76, CC BY 3.0

Place details from Wikidata. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each card.