Monte Baldo

Monte Baldo
Monte Baldo
Waldberg
	Monte Altissimo di Nago in the Monte Baldo range
Highest point
Elevation	2,218 m (7,277 ft)
Prominence	1,950 m (6,400 ft)
Listing	Ultra
Coordinates	45°43′35″N 10°50′38″E / 45.72639°N 10.84389°E
Geography
	Monte Baldo Italy
Location	Veneto, northern Italy
Parent range	Alps, Brescia and Garda Prealps
Climbing
Easiest route	rock/snow climb

Monte Baldo (German: Waldberg) is a mountain range in the Italian Alps, located in the provinces of Trento and Verona. Its ridge is orientated in a northeast-southwest direction and it is bounded to the south by the highland ending at Caprino Veronese, to the west by Lake Garda, to the north by the valley joining Rovereto to Nago-Torbole and, to the east, the Val d'Adige.

The name derives from the German Wald ("forest"); it appears for the first time in a German map in 1163. The Peace Trail (it: Sentiero della Pace), one of the most important long distance trails in Northern Italy, leads over the range. The ridge is reachable through a cable car from the nearby town of Malcesine, on the shore of Lake Garda.

Morphology

Mount Baldo is characterized by a geographical identity, a ridge parallel to Lake Garda, which stretches for 40 kilometres (25 miles), between the lake to the west and Val d'Adige to the east, and on the south it is bounded by plain Caprino and North Valley Loppio. Mount Baldo reaches its maximum elevation of 2,218 m with the Cima Valdritta, and its minimum elevation of 65 m on Lake Garda. Other prominent peaks in the range are Monte Altissimo di Nago (2,079 m), Cima del Longino (2,180 m), Cima delle Pozzette (2,132 m) and Punta Telegrafo (2,200 m).