🥾 Via Alpina – Blue Trail
A 829 km long-distance route across the Western Alps
📋 Fast Facts
- Length: 829 kilometers (515 miles) across Switzerland, Italy, and France
- Difficulty: Demanding; 61 stages with approximately 50,100 meters elevation gain
- Duration: Typically over six weeks to complete
- Best Season: June to September
The Blue Trail is a long-distance hiking route of the Via Alpina, one of Europe's most significant alpine trekking networks. Extending across three countries through the Western Alps, the trail combines dramatic alpine landscapes with cultural and historical immersion. It traces paths used by historic mountain communities and passes through protected natural areas, offering hikers an encounter with both the ecological and human heritage of the alpine region ...