Avoiding toll roads

RayToms

Has any one to driven to Lake Como towing a caravan via the Alpine route and advoiding the toll tunnels. I know the Alpine Route has many hairpin bends but Ive heard the Tunnels have very long queues and can take many hours, we are looking at alternatives.

eurortraveller

You can cross Germany toll free and then over the Fern Pass to Landeck in Austria. From there the road up the Engadine valley via St Moritz does not need a Swiss vignette so is also toll free.  

To go that way as far as the top of the Maloja Pass is not a difficult climb at all,  but then from the top of the pass there is a long,  twisty,  winding descent to the north end of Lake Como.  Coaches, caravans and Motorhomes do go that way, but we stopped on the Swiss side without making  that final descent.

But there are other ways over other passes. 

DavidKlyne

You don't say what time of year. A few years ago we wanted to use the Mont Cenis Pass in early May only to find that it was closed and we had to use the Tunnel de Frejus. The tunnel was fine but expensive. Obviously the more towards the summer you go the less likely that passes will be closed.

If you are concerned about any particular pass there are lots of videos on YouTube that give a fair impression of the journey.

David

RayToms

Thanks for your replies, we are probably going in either July or September, we went through the the frejus tunnel last year to Italy, as you said above it was expensive 57€ each way. But we thought we would try a different route this year