Ampezzo · Veneto · Italy
Lago di Sorapis
A traverse whose difficulty is exposure: ladders, boards and cabled ledges. Water is most turquoise 09:00-11:00.
At a glance
HazardExposure: ladders, boards and cabled ledges (Cengia del Banco); snow or ice can linger on them early in the season 1 more in Before you go
The place
Overview
A milky-turquoise lake under the Sorapiss wall at the end of a cliff-side path.
Used inDolomites, 13 nights
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Before you go
HazardExposure: ladders, boards and cabled ledges (Cengia del Banco); snow or ice can linger on them early in the season
HazardDo not use trail 216 as a return loop
Not checked yet: permit or booking, closures and conditions, altitude
For your group
Who it suits
- From about 10
- Moderate · CAI E · 4.5–6 h
- No stroller access
- For a child: Path 215 is easy for the first hour, then crosses ladders and cabled ledges above drops. Not for anyone uneasy with heights. Swimming and paddling in the lake are not allowed.
- Not suited to carriers
- Distance: 10.5 km
- Climb: 434 m
- Surface: Dirt, Rock, Scree
- Fixed aids: Cables, Ladders
- Shape: out-and-back
- Navigation: Waymarked
19 things we have not checked yet
Group size, minimum age, wheelchair, access detail, accessible toilet, accessible parking, capacity, descent, scrambling, child time, water crossings, snow on the trail until, dogs, toilets, drinking water, food, shade, bail-out, phone signal.
On foot
The route
Not checked yet: turnaround points
Trail guide: Open trail page
Logistics
How to get there
Getting in
The Passo Tre Croci car park holds about 20 cars and fills by 06:00-06:30 in July.
Directions
To Passo Tre Croci roadside parking
46.55620,12.20437
Passo Tre Croci, start of path 215Trailhead
- Elevation
- 1,809 m
- Point
- 46.55605,12.20487
Passo Tre Croci roadside parkingParking
- Fee
- Free
- Capacity
- About 20 spaces; full by about 06:00 to 06:30 in July
- Point
- 46.55620,12.20437
Car park 600 m west of the passParking
- Point
- 46.55625,12.19861
Not checked yet: public transport, passes
Season and light
When to go
Access · our judgement · read 18 Oct 2026
Filled: open all monthOutlined: part of the monthDashed: not open
Not checked yet: best weeks, best time of day, snow-free window
Plan around it
Nearby, worth adding
Same corridor
Visual record
Photos
- Lago di Sorapis with the Sorapis peaks behindkallerna (opens in a new tab) · CC BY-SA 4.0 (opens in a new tab)
- Boulder in the turquoise water of Lago di Sorapis, alpine flowers in frontSamuel Boatto (opens in a new tab) · CC BY-SA 4.0 (opens in a new tab)
- Snowfield and rock slope above Lago di SorapisSamuel Boatto (opens in a new tab) · CC BY-SA 4.0 (opens in a new tab)
Official and booking
Links
Researched2
- Official site (opens in a new tab)read 19 Oct 2026
- alltrails (opens in a new tab)read 14 Nov 2026
Route6
- OSM relation 3985745 (path 215) (opens in a new tab)
- Waymarked Trails: path 215 (opens in a new tab)
- Sorapis - Vandelli - Antorno (opens in a new tab)
- Trail 215 to Lake Sorapis (opens in a new tab)
- Outdooractive: Sorapis Lake (215) (opens in a new tab)
- Tabacco 03 Cortina d'Ampezzo 1:25k (opens in a new tab)
Conditions3
Not checked yet: booking
Provenance
Facts and sources
- Distance
- 10.5 kmCortina d'Ampezzo tourist office (IAT), read 4 Nov 2026
- Climb
- 434 mCortina d'Ampezzo tourist office (IAT), read 4 Nov 2026
- Time
- 4.5-6 hOur research, read Aug 2026
- Shape
- out-and-backtrail 215 from Passo Tre Croci, read 18 Oct 2026 · from other hikers
- Surface
- Path with ladders, boards and cabled ledgesOur research, read Aug 2026
- Exposure
- Significant exposure, partly fenced (metal ladders and short exposed sections on a flat ledge with wire ropes, after the first flat stretch of path 215 and before Rifugio Vandelli)Cortina d'Ampezzo tourist office (IAT), read 5 Nov 2026
- Water, toilets, huts
- Rifugio Vandelli at the lake: lunch 11:30-14:30, cash onlyOur research, read Aug 2026
- Minimum age
- 10 yearsOur research, read Aug 2026
- Best time of day
- Water is most turquoise 09:00-11:00Our research, read Aug 2026
- Shuttle
- DolomitiBus line 30/31 Cortina - Misurina stops at the passmoonhoneytravel.com / europe.stripes.com, read 18 Oct 2026 · from other hikers
Why it is worth the trip
Our judgement · read 18 Oct 2026: The turquoise lake under the Sorapiss is a destination in itself. No designation of its own; inside the UNESCO Dolomites.
UNESCO World Heritage Site: The Dolomites
- Prices and hours from 2026; check before you go. Figures were read in 2026 and are used as a pattern for 2027.
We have checked 19 of 32 facts
13 facts are still to check.
Not checked yet: options and prices; toilets, drinking water, food, shade, phone signal, dogs