Cable car · Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
Col Drusciè - Ra Valles
Col Drusciè - Ra Valles is a cable car near Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. It climbs 696 m over 1.50 km, from 1,771 m to 2,467 m above sea level. With no pylon on the way, the cable runs up to about 333 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
99/100 · Among the scariest
By the numbers, Col Drusciè - Ra Valles is scarier than 99% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 2 of 301 in Italy.
- Highest above the ground: about 333 m, higher than the Eiffel Tower (330 m), 1.05 km after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 1.50 km.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 25°.
- More than 50 m above the ground for 1.29 km of the 1.50 km ride.
Where does it start?
The bottom station of Col Drusciè - Ra Valles is near Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, at 1,771 m above sea level (46.54370° N, 12.10389° E). From there it runs 1.50 km up to the top station at 2,467 m.
Directions to the bottom station ↗ Bottom station on OpenStreetMap ↗
- Capacity
- 1,066 people per hour
Nearby lines
- Colfiere - Col Drusciè gondola · 1.2 km away · rises 326 m
- Lacedel-Socrepes gondola · 2.0 km away · rises 226 m
- Cortina - Colfiere gondola · 2.2 km away · rises 234 m
- Cortina Skyline (Son dei Prade - Cianzopè) gondola · 2.9 km away · rises 89 m
- Cortina Skyline (Cianzopè - Bai de Dones) gondola · 4.2 km away · rises 149 m
- Cortina – Mandres – Faloria cable car · 5.0 km away · rises 894 m
Pylon heights are estimated (30 m), so the height above ground is approximate. Terrain: Copernicus GLO-30, 30 m. Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. Data as of 2026-10-31.