Cable car · Campodolcino, Italy
Groppera
Groppera is a cable car near Campodolcino, Italy. It climbs 722 m over 1.91 km, from 2,154 m to 2,876 m above sea level. Between its 1 pylon, the cable runs up to about 283 m above the ground.
How scary is it?
98/100 · Among the scariest
By the numbers, Groppera is scarier than 98% of the 2,742 gondolas and cable cars on this site. It is number 3 of 301 in Italy.
- Highest above the ground: about 283 m, higher than the Great Pyramid of Giza (139 m), 673 m after the bottom station.
- Longest stretch without a pylon: 1.33 km.
- Steepest stretch of cable: 21°.
- More than 50 m above the ground for 1.41 km of the 1.91 km ride.
Where does it start?
The bottom station of Groppera is near Campodolcino, Italy, at 2,154 m above sea level (46.42392° N, 9.37885° E). From there it runs 1.91 km up to the top station at 2,876 m.
Directions to the bottom station ↗ Bottom station on OpenStreetMap ↗
- Opened
- 1963
- Operator
- Skiarea Valchiavenna S.p.A.
- Capacity
- 360 people per hour
- Per cabin
- 40 people
- Ride time
- about 5 min
Nearby lines
- Larici gondola · 2.3 km away · rises 339 m
- Sky Express funicular · 3.0 km away · rises 610 m
- Tanatzhöhi gondola · 14.0 km away · rises 379 m
- Blachtaboda gondola · 14.8 km away · rises 277 m
- Fracch-Confin gondola · 16.9 km away · rises 317 m
- Pranzaira-Albigna cable car · 21.2 km away · rises 899 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.