Padaro

!!! ATTENTION !!! Le piazzole sector is closed till the first week of March 2024 due to maintenance.

Le Piazzole:
Le Piazzole is one of the newest crags of Arco, mainly bolted by the Garda Trentino project. There are easy routes that suit beginners and hard ones as well, on big tufas and quite overhanging.
All the pitches are well bolted and feature a high quality rock.
On the right there is also another hard sector discovered by Nicolas Favresse with a bunch of difficult lines.
The crag base is comfortable also for families and the only flaw is the quite long walking approach (20-25 min) on a steep path.

Beautiful is the landscape over the Alto Garda valley.

Padaro:
Padaro can be easily called the future of Arco. It is the crag that in the last years has been developed the most and now counts over 200 routes. But further work is still planned and extreme projects are freed periodically, so Padaro will continue to grow.
Actually Padaro has a lot of routes of different styles, from long and technical slab to nice overhangs, but there are only few easy routes (about 15 of 6c+ or lower). Most of the pitches are around seventh grade but there are plenty of 8a or harder, up to 9a/9a+.
The base of the sectors is generally comfortable, but pay attention to possible falling rocks during windy days (stay close to the wall!).
One note about the way the routes are bolted: since the route setters of Padaro are many, it is possible to find bolts close to each other but also spaced ones. Anyway the routes are not dangerous.

The huge wall of Padaro has also few nice multi-pitch routes, do not miss them!

One nice feature of Padaro is surely the quiet and the amazing landscape over the Alto Garda valley and lake Garda.

Le piazzole:
Le piazzole was bolted a few years ago by the Garda Trentino project, who did hard work by setting up and cleaning the base of the crag. Some meters on the right, another sector was discovered by Nicolas Favresse and improved by Lorenzo De Bonis and Alfredo Webber.

Padaro:
The first ten routes of Padaro were bolted before 2005. After this year, the equippers have begun to realize the enormous potential of the crag and bolted over 40 routes till 2015. In the last years, the leading actors were Sauro Merighi and Gianfranco Bassani who bolted other 50+ routes. Now Padaro has over 200 routes and still has possible developments. In the last years, strong climbers such as Stefano Ghisolfi, Silvio Reffo and Gabriele Moroni, freed extreme projects over the 9 grade.

To remember among the many bolters: Sauro Merighi, Gianfranco Bassani, Paolo Benvenuti, G. Vergoni, H. Brink, Diego Mabboni, Mauro Mabboni, Rolando Larcher, O. Zeddies, Michael Broemsen, M. Knaubert, M.Badanel, Luca Onorevoli.
The multipitch equippers are reported in the routes descriptions.