Monte Alben Adventure Park

The hours page of the official website, checked again on 1 October 2026, states at the top that the park is temporarily closed for administrative updates requested by the municipality of Oltre il Colle; there is no reopening date, and on the municipal notice board we found no act explaining why. The rest of the page still shows the calendar and prices for the 2026 season, and in spring the park was operating: for 31 May and 7 June 2026 it had organised two free trial days for parish youth groups, summer camps and summer centres.

To find out whether and when it reopens, the reference is the park's mobile, 347 9210690, also on WhatsApp, or the address info@parcoavventuramontealben.it. Even in season, outside August the park opens only on some days: always check the calendar before setting off.

For the youngest there are the Elves Course, for ages 2 to 7 and without a harness, then the Fuchsia Course, the Net Cubes and the Tyrolienne for ages 3 to 7 and the Orange Course from 6. From 7 you move on to the Green, easy, and the Blue, medium; from 10 to the Red, medium, and the Black, very difficult, which Valbrembanaweb described in 2023 as reaching 18 metres in height. Then there is the Elf's Leap, added in 2022: at the end of the Red Course zip lines you can come down on the pulley or throw yourself into the void from a height of 15 metres.

The reduced ticket depends not on age but on height: it applies to anyone at most 145 centimetres tall, measured to the wrist with the arm raised, and gives access to the Fuchsia and Orange courses, the Tyrolienne, the Elves Course and the Hanging Cube. Taller children pay the adult price or choose the single-run tickets on one or two of the Green, Blue, Red and Black courses.

The park is in freely accessible woods: the ticket is only for the equipped courses, and parents, grandparents and friends can enter the woods without paying. The 2026 prices are by time slot, morning from 10 to 14, afternoon from 14 to 18 or full day, with discounted prices from 15 to 39 euros. Anyone who buys a fixed-price ticket gets 50 per cent off a second ticket within 7 days, and every 30 euros spent earns an Elf Coin: four are worth a free children's ticket, six a free adult one.

The discount rules set three conditions: promotions, coupons and free tickets cannot be combined, with several tickets the discount applies to the cheapest one, and no discount is valid on group prices. Groups of 20 people or more have dedicated offers with kitting out and a compulsory briefing with an instructor, at prices on request.

The Enchanted Wood is the area of the park dedicated to children aged 2 to 7. In summer 2026 the calendar had a Sunday-morning event every week from 5 July to 23 August, starting at 10:30 and lasting about two hours: La Fiaba nel Bosco, in which a fairy tells a story and takes the children among the beech trees, workshops and a treasure hunt. Three survival workshops, on fire, knots and animal tracks, were designed for children aged 6 and over.

Each event costs 15 euros per child and includes a souvenir and unlimited access to the Elves Course all day; the three-event card costs 30 euros. For older children, from 8, there were three Survival Nights, evening workshops from 17:30 with mat, sleeping bag and a compulsory headlamp, by booking only. The park points out that its staff do not take responsibility for minors: children stay with an adult.

The park says it installed the continuous safety line on all courses in June 2017, after ten years of activity without accidents. The Vaia storm of 29 October 2018 damaged structures and woods: the park reopened with a celebration on 30 June 2019, adding the Elves Course and having the trunks broken by the storm carved with chainsaws into the figures that now populate the woods. In the following years the bark beetle, the insect that attacks spruces, forced it to rebuild the Red Course and revise other routes.

According to Valbrembanaweb, in 2023 the park was opening its fifteenth season and was run by the Paganì family of Serina. For groups it also offers hikes with a mountain guide, climbing on equipped rock or in the gym of the sports centre next to the park, and outings of several days with nights in a mountain hut.

The park is at the Passo di Zambla, about 80 kilometres from Milan according to its website, and 100 metres from the car park. From the A4 motorway, exit at Bergamo and go up the Val Seriana to Ponte Nossa, where you turn off for the Colle di Zambla, 14 kilometres; or exit at Dalmine, go up the Val Brembana and after Zogno turn right for the Colle, 20 kilometres. At the pass there are the asphalted car park, bars and restaurants; OpenStreetMap shows toilets run by the park, and CAI Bergamo indicates an accessible toilet opposite the Al Trapper bar-restaurant.

From the same car park start the barrier-free walk towards the Conca dell'Alben and Pian della Palla and the trails to Monte Alben and the Cima di Grem: adults can take turns between the park woods and an almost level walk.