Albagno Hut

From the Mornera cable car end station, just a few steps from a traditional Ticino grotto, follow the signpost for 'Albagno'. The trail first climbs through the woods, which was once characterised by several species of broadleaf trees such as beech and oak and is now a spruce forest. Reach the Pian di Nar pond which, in addition to being an interesting project from a naturalistic and landscape point of view, it also serves as infrastructure for helicopters to draw water for fighting fires.

Continue on a well-marked trail that passes through pine and larch woods until it emerges into a clearing along a ridge entering into the Gorduno Valley and then leads to the Capanna Albagno at an altitude of 1864 m.

A small stone and wood construction, the Capanna is particularly popular with the inhabitants of Bellinzona, thanks to the enchanting panorama of lights from the valley floor that can be seen in the evening and in the early morning with the rising sun.

The return includes a stop at Monda, an ancient spring grazing pasture which, with the support of the Patriziato di Carasso, was transformed over the last decades into a summer farmstead and is still in use today. Then conclude the excursion by returning to Grotto Mornera.