Out for a Drive · Northern Italy · in build

Almost none of these roads has a toll. What stops you is a timetable, and now a booking.

44 driving roads across the Italian Alps, the Dolomites, the Apennines and the Swiss and Austrian passes that cross into Italy, one page each: what the road is like to drive, what stands between you and it this year, when you may drive it, up to four places worth stopping for, and a button that opens the whole route in Google Maps. 1,318 km of road, every line drawn from OpenStreetMap and checked to reach the towns its page names.

In build. The roads are chosen, every track is drawn from OpenStreetMap and the pages are being reviewed. Nothing here is for sale yet and no date has been earned.

Page 2 of the book: the key map

Roads

Northern Italy, the Dolomites and the border passes

Road

1,318 km

measured, not rounded up

GPX files

one per open road

Season

2026

access rules, tolls and closures

Price

Not on sale yet

this page will say when

Why these roads

The gate is a clock

Two of the roads in this book charge a toll on the road itself. What closes the others is a traffic light that lets cars into Austria for fifteen minutes an hour, a national park that admits 350 cars a day above its dam, and passes that shut to engines on published days. Each page's third cell says which.

Dates from the bodies that set them

The Nivolet's quota is the Parco Nazionale Gran Paradiso's page, the Agnello's opening the Provincia di Cuneo's, the Swiss dates the cantons' joint portal, the Tre Cime toll the Comune di Auronzo's resolution. Where a page rests on a motoring site, the page says so.

A line that reaches the town it names

Every one of the 44 tracks was drawn from the OpenStreetMap extracts and measured against the endpoints printed under its map. Where a road is unnumbered for a stretch, as the Great St Bernard's Swiss ramp is, the line was routed over the real road rather than across the gap.

Try five roads first

The same two files cut to five roads. No email address asked for: the pack is not on sale, so there is nothing to sell you afterwards.

The five-road PDF The five-road pack, with the GPX tracks

What this book does not do

The book is in English

The road names print as the signs spell them, in Italian, German, Ladin and Romansh; the prose is English.

Where the season is a pattern, the page says typically

The Swiss cantons, the Provincia di Cuneo and the Comune di Livigno publish an opening date each spring and those dates are printed. Some Italian provinces publish none, and those pages say the month the road usually opens rather than a date it did.

Two roads are also in the Germany and Austria book

The Timmelsjoch is here as the Passo del Rombo, from the Italian side, because it is one of the best roads in the Alps and the owner wanted it in both. If you own both books you have it twice.

The 44 roads

Names as the book prints them. No drive scores here: they are part of what the book is.

Italy 35

Agnello PassPiemonte16.4 kmopen

Colle San CarloValle d'Aosta15.4 kmopen

Falzarego and Valparola PassesVeneto / Alto Adige28.7 kmopen

Fauniera PassPiemonte47.0 kmopen

Fedaia PassTrentino / Veneto26.0 kmopen

Foscagno and Eira PassesLombardia34.7 kmopen

Futa PassEmilia-Romagna / Toscana39.6 kmopen

Gavia PassLombardia42.3 kmopen

Giau PassVeneto20.0 kmopen

JaufenpassAlto Adige37.0 kmopen

Little St Bernard PassValle d'Aosta22.6 kmopen

Lombarda PassPiemonte21.1 kmopen

Manghen PassTrentino37.1 kmopen

Mendola PassAlto Adige / Trentino20.7 kmopen

Monte Baldo RoadVeneto35.6 kmopen

Monte GrappaVeneto26.5 kmopen

Monte ZoncolanFriuli Venezia Giulia26.9 kmopen

Mortirolo PassLombardia17.4 kmopen

Mottarone RoadPiemonte6.2 kmopen

Muraglione PassToscana / Emilia-Romagna35.1 kmopen

Nassfeld PassFriuli Venezia Giulia / Kärnten23.8 kmopen

Nivolet PassPiemonte17.9 kmopen

Penser JochAlto Adige36.1 kmopen

Rolle PassTrentino42.7 kmopen

San Boldo PassVeneto15.9 kmopen

San Marco PassLombardia39.3 kmopen

Sella Nevea and the PredilFriuli Venezia Giulia37.5 kmopen

Sella RondaAlto Adige / Trentino / Veneto52.1 kmopen

Staller SattelAlto Adige / Osttirol24.8 kmopen

Stelvio PassLombardia / Alto Adige43.5 kmopen

Strada della ForraLombardia4.7 kmopen

Timmelsjoch High Alpine RoadAlto Adige / Tirol43.6 kmopen

Tre Cime di Lavaredo RoadVeneto21.5 kmopen

Western GardesanaLombardia / Trentino27.8 kmopen

WürzjochAlto Adige43.0 kmopen

Switzerland 9

Bernina PassGraubünden / Lombardia46.3 kmopen

Forcola di LivignoGraubünden / Lombardia24.3 kmopen

Gotthard Pass and the TremolaUri / Ticino24.9 kmopen

Great St Bernard PassValais / Valle d'Aosta30.0 kmopen

Maloja PassGraubünden / Lombardia43.4 kmopen

Nufenen PassValais / Ticino38 kmopen

San Bernardino PassGraubünden30.9 kmopen

Splügen PassGraubünden / Lombardia39 kmopen

Umbrail PassGraubünden / Lombardia10.4 kmopen

Questions

How do I get it, and is it a subscription?

One payment, no subscription. The checkout hands you the download on the page you land on and emails the same link, good for 30 days; the link can be reissued from the site if it runs out. Two files and the GPX tracks, yours to keep on any number of your own devices.

Is it the same book as the Alps one?

The same two files and the same page, with a different third cell: where the Alps book prints a toll, this one prints what actually stands in the way, which here is usually a timetable.

Which cities is it close to?

The key map on page 2 places every road against Munich, Innsbruck, Zurich, Milan, Turin, Verona, Venice, Bologna and Florence, so you can see from your own city which roads are a Saturday and which are a weekend.

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