Driving around the Dolomites

Posted by js on 04/12/25 10:57 PM

Is it safe and doable for a single woman to drive to various towns and sites in the Dolomites?
The plan is to stay is to :
-pick up the rental car in Mestre, drive to Cortina d’ampezzo and stay for 4 nights.
- Drive to Lake Braies enjoying the scenery along the way 1 day.
- -Another day drive to Gardena.
- Another day hike somewhere for the day with or without a local guide.
- The next day drive to Milan for 2 nights there before my flight home.

What do y ‘all think of the feasibility of my plan?

Feel free to punch holes in it:)

Posted by Sam

Green Bay

04/12/25 11:12 PM

21969 posts

A car would be very inconvenient in Milan. Can you drop it outside the city and use public transportation for your time there? Other than that, it would seem fine as long as you will be in Italy already and recovered from any jetlag.

Posted by js OP

04/13/25 12:54 AM

84 posts

Yes
I am planning on dropping the car off at outskirts of Milano

Posted by George H

04/13/25 02:59 PM

8 posts

This is a partial reply to your post. I am not a single traveler, so can't help with that part. I do have some comments on our experience driving in the Dolomites. As part of a larger trip, my wife and I rented a car last summer just for the Dolomites part. We drove from Verona to the Bolzano/Lajen area. We stayed about 4 days and did a fair amount of local driving.

The highways and major roads are great. The smaller local roads can vary from easy to quite narrow and steep. With the two of us there was no trouble. Everyone's experience is different, but I wouldn't have wanted to drive some of them solo at night. Also you should take into account if you want a manual transmission or automatic car.

We had a great experience seeing these very real mountains and hope you do as well.

Posted by js OP

04/13/25 04:43 PM

84 posts

Thank you; i was planning on no night driving.
You bring up an interesting point about verona. It could be a helpful alternative for car return.

Thanks