Albagno Hut

From the arrival station of the Mornera cable car where there is a typical Ticino grotto, follow the signpost for “Albagno”. The path begins to ascend through woods, which were once characterized by various broadleaf species such as beech and oak, but is currently made up of a spruce forest (red firs) and reaches the Pian di Nar pond, which, besides being an interesting project from a naturalistic and scenic point of view, now also serves as a fire-fighting infrastructure for water collection by helicopters.

Continue on a well-marked path that crosses pine and larch forests until you emerge onto a traverse along the ridge, at the end of which you enter the Gorduno valley before reaching the Albagno hut at 1864 m.

The hut is a small stone and wood building, particularly beloved by the people of Bellinzona, thanks to the evocative panorama of valley lights that can be seen in the evening and in the morning with the first light of the sun.

The return includes a stop at Monda, an old alpine pasture transformed into a summer alpine farm in recent decades on the initiative of the Patriziato of Carasso and still used today, before concluding the outing by returning to the Mornera Grotto.