Camping Arera

The Pro Loco's accommodation page lists Camping Arera, at Plassa, with the email arera.new.camping@gmail.com and the mobiles 329 0394793 and 379 1197315, and its home page also lists it, with 339 4552198. The municipality's list still has the landline 0345 95213. The campingarera.com website, which the Pro Loco gives, could not be reached on 1 October 2026: the domain name does not respond.

None of these sources says in which months the campsite operates, whether it takes passing tents and campervans or only long-stay guests, or at what prices. We did not find it among the campsites with a regional code on the Lombardy Region tourism portal either, where Camping Zambla is the only one listed for Oltre il Colle. The only way to know if there is space is to contact the operators.

In the notice with which it sought a new operator at the end of 2021, the municipality described the site as follows: 130 pitches, 53 of them in use and occupied by caravans with wooden add-on structures; a two-storey central building with a meeting room, office, bar, shop, storerooms, toilets, showers and changing rooms; a boiler room, a covered courtyard and a storehouse.

On OpenStreetMap the campsite is marked with electricity at the pitches and with permanent camping, meaning pitches rented long term. The same entry gives another mobile number and an email written without the dot between «new» and «camping».

The last concession had expired on 30 June 2021. After an inspection by the ATS, which had found hygiene and health shortcomings, municipal ordinance no. 7 of 2021 ruled that the campsite could not be used as accommodation until safety works had been carried out and the missing certifications obtained.

In 2022 the municipality collected expressions of interest and in April the town council approved the draft contract: a twelve-year concession from signing, with the operator taking on the works, estimated at 56,000 euros for the urgent part, and the maintenance. The works requested by the ATS and the improvements promised by the operator include those below. We found no public records saying whether and when they were completed.

Plassa is reached by car from Zambla Alta on the municipal road that climbs towards the Arera; CAI Bergamo gives the Camping Arera area as the parking place for path 221 and starts the path at around 1,150 metres, while Prima Bergamo gives Plassa 1,169 metres. From the campsite the Plassa-Arera 1600 road continues, reopened in 2026 on 22 April with a 30 km/h speed limit, a ban on vehicles over 3.5 tonnes and on those towing a trailer carrying other vehicles, and a ban on roadside parking.

At the top is the pay car park at 1,600 metres: 4 euros a day, with the ticket bought in partner shops or at the Plassa parking meters before driving up, or a 30-euro season pass. In winter the road is closed to all vehicles, in 2025 from 18 November; from 5 October to 18 December 2026, between 8 am and 5 pm, an ordinance also provides for temporary closures managed by flagmen for logging work.

CAI path 221 to the Rifugio Capanna 2000 starts from Plassa: 3.6 kilometres and about 900 metres of ascent, 1 hour 10 minutes up according to the CAI. As the crow flies the Plassa car park is about 80 metres from the campsite, Giuliano Mauri's Cattedrale Vegetale 470, the SABA's Cà d'Arera hut 760, the Alpe Arera car park 890 and the Capanna 2000 about 2 kilometres.

The nearest services are in Zambla Alta: the Tiraboschi bakery and grocery are about 1.7 kilometres away as the crow flies, the Zambla Alta Albergo Miramonti stop of bus line B, served Monday to Saturday, about 1.8.