Monte Stello

Date of your route : Jul 28, 2025
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good
Very busy route : No

Nice hike.
Difficult.
Plan to mark the route with yellow and orange tape. Add more tape on the descent after Monte Stello and at point 9 in the village. Thank you

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Date of your route : Jun 23, 2025
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good
Very busy route : No

A beautiful hike with splendid views on both sides of Cap Corse.
I returned via the same route.
12 km - 1,000 m elevation gain - 5 hours

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Date of your route : Apr 05, 2025
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good
Very busy route : No

It's mountain hiking: nothing complicated, except that it goes up and then down!
And at the end, Cap Corse appears before your amazed eyes!
It takes 6 hours under a beautiful sky without the heat!
If you don't meet the last two criteria, forget it!

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Date of your route : Oct 11, 2024
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★☆☆ Average
Very busy route : Yes

As a new user of the Visorando app, I must say that I am remarkably surprised by the reliability of the detailed information on this very first route.
Indeed, with my rather poor sense of direction, finding the starting point was child's play on the GPS.
As for the orange-yellow markings, they were all easy to spot overall. However, on the western ridge, I took the initiative to build a new cairn.
The duration of the route is realistic for an inexperienced person.
I set off at 7:11 a.m. and reached the summit at 10:01 a.m.

As for the difficulty of the route, I am not the best person to answer that question, as I did not find it difficult at all, so my opinion does not count.
The level of difficulty is mainly based on a person's own mental state and physical ability, and I think that specialists in this field would be better placed than me to answer this question.
However, walking poles are essential for this route, so I strongly recommend that you bring them with you.

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Date of your route : Jun 17, 2024
Reliability of the description : ★★☆☆☆ Disappointing
Ease of following the route : ★★☆☆☆ Disappointing
Route interest : ★★☆☆☆ Disappointing
Very busy route : No

The path was very poorly marked from the village, so we ended up going the wrong way up. Thanks to the cairns, we made it to the plateau where there are pylons, but from there on there were no more signs, cairns or orange markings. As the fog was rolling in, we turned back, very disappointed. 😞

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Date of your route : Jun 17, 2024
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good
Very busy route : No

Lovely walk

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Date of your route : May 13, 2024
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★☆☆ Average
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good
Very busy route : No

A very beautiful 2.5-hour climb to reach the summit of Mot Stello. We did the circular as suggested. The descent is not interesting and poorly marked.
We strongly recommend doing a round trip.
Otherwise, the view is splendid on both sides of Cap Corse

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Date of your route : Feb 13, 2023
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good
Very busy route : No

A very beautiful, challenging hike, the view from the summit of Monte Stello is well worth the effort. At this time of year, the surrounding mountains are all covered in snow. The route is well marked throughout.
The route is not very interesting for half of the descent (very stony track and path). It ends with a good two kilometres of tarmac before reaching the car park.

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Date of your route : Apr 18, 2022
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good
Very busy route : No

Ascent made as a round trip from Poretto (Brando).
The summit offers a wide-ranging view of the entire Cap Corse: the east coast, west coast, northern tip... You can even see far to the south, as far as the Cinto massif, the highest point in Corsica.
The route is simple: climb up to Bocca di Santa Maria via a well-marked trail, descend a few metres to join the trail that runs below the ridge, then turn north towards Monte Stello, recognisable from afar thanks to its antenna at the summit.

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Date of your route : Mar 13, 2021
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good
Very busy route : Yes

Hike started from Silgaggia. Return via the same route, i.e. in the opposite direction to that indicated here. 4 hours round trip.
Gradual climb, not steep.
Path with lots of stones and not much of interest except for the views of the coast on the descent.
Arrived at the summit at 12 noon, clouds obscured the magnificent view of Saint Florent... a shame.

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Date of your route : Aug 25, 2020
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good
Very busy route : No

The hike started from Erbalunga opposite the community of communes buildings and went to Silgaggia, which changed the circular route and extended the distance from 14 to 21 kilometres but made the hike even more interesting (passing through the hamlets of Mausoléo and Castello). We set off early (6 a.m.) to avoid the heat, and the route to Silgaggia is indeed more sheltered, with not much tarmac to cover. The GPX track alerts us regularly, which the IGN map does not do, even though I had it with me. There is a parallel route (cairns but no ground markings) to the official path before crossing MONTE STELLO, but nothing alarming. When you arrive at Pozzo, you go down to the cemetery to find a chapel under which a path through the undergrowth winds its way from the plateaus and leads back to Mausoléo and then Erbalunga to the starting point.We found a spring on the way down where water was still flowing (we took the opportunity to water a recently planted young tree with a bottle we left behind). A beautiful, challenging hike lasting 6½ hours, with good weather and clear views in the early morning.

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Date of your route : Feb 19, 2020
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good

Do not complete the circular, as the descent on the other side is not interesting. In fact, the Corsicans only do the outward journey.

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Date of your route : Oct 09, 2019
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good

I preferred to leave the car in Silgaggia rather than Pozzo; the drive on the paved road at the end of the hike is always tiring. The direction of the proposed route is very good; the first 300 metres of elevation gain are very steep. It is therefore preferable to climb them at the beginning of the hike.
The descent path is difficult to find from Mont Stello, as the markings are not very visible.
Otherwise, the hike is superb, especially in the scrubland and when you reach the Bocca di Santa Maria with a bird's eye view of both sides of the cape.

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Date of your route : Aug 01, 2019
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good

It was a difficult hike, but what a reward when we reached the summit: the view was splendid!
For the return trip, we decided not to do the circular because of the advice we had been given. The descent was long and hot.

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Date of your route : Aug 09, 2019
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good

The climb is truly beautiful, along a well-marked rocky trail through low vegetation, with stunning scenery all around and the reward of a superb view from the summit of Monte Stello.
On the way back, between points 3 and 4, there are so many small paths that it is difficult to tell which is the main one, and I completely missed the junction indicated in the description of point 3. But with the Visorando app on my mobile, the IGN map and GPS positioning, I was able to easily rejoin the path a few hundred metres further on, without having to turn back after realising my mistake.

The advantage of the return route is that it is less steep than the outward route, and therefore less difficult on the knees, as well as offering beautiful rocky landscapes all the way to Scrignoli. And also the bramble bushes full of blackberries that line the path from Scrignoli to the finishing point

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