In October we encountered a toll both on the traverse above Seceda in Val Gardena. In my younger days I would have ignored it and blown right by, I'm not that guy anymore but this is really sad. I don't pay to hike, I half expected Slim Pickens to ride up.
Brad
https://www.euronews.com/travel/2025/08/01/dolomite-landowners-ask-tourists-to-pay-fee-on-scenic-route-after-8000-visitors-arrive-in-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbWg-mozGsU
Wait until they put some autovelox speed cameras to fine hikers who walk too fast or ZHL (Limited Hiking Zones) where only residents with permit can hike.
There is no limit to local governments’ greed once you allow them to pluck visitors’ wallets.
Well done, hopefully many will follow...as long as tourists don't respect the properties. The trails are abandoned and the meadows are full of rubbish.
I invite everyone who doesn't understand these local reactions to let pass visitors in their own garden (or house/appartment for those without a garden).
We should do the same here in the Bernese Oberland. If that means less tourists then this is a feature, not a bug.
A while ago we were walking to Stechelberg and I noticed that they had put up electric fences on both sides of the path, but they were the wrong colour (they are normally yellow here), and then I realised that they had not been put up to contain the cows, but to contain the tourists.
I will not be sad if we see less hit-n-run instagrammers here, trampling on the gras.
