The National Park

The STILFSER JOCH NATIONAL PARK is a protected area, which was created in 1935. Its valleys, glacier covered mountains, forests, hanging terraces, pastures and alpine meadows make it one of the largest and most diverse national parks in Europe.

It expands to a 135,000 hectare area in the middle of the central Alps. It includes the entire Ortler - Cevedale mountain range with its side villages.

The Stilfser Joch National Park was founded to protect the extraordinary, unaffected landscape and variety of wildlife from destruction. As well as giving the park a chance to regenerate and improve its "products", this giant project has helped to promote tourism in some of the most beautiful valleys in the Alps.

Its woods, with a wide variety of trees which includes larch, fir, pine and birch to list just a few. The meadows, fields and streams contain about 1800 different plant varieties. You may encounter wild animals such as deer, foxes, groundhogs, marmots, ermine, squirrels, hares, badgers and eagles.

Thanks to its unique geology, the Stilfser Joch National Park is one of Europe's most special combinations of natural and cultivated landscape.