The Albula Pass (Albulapass in German, Pass d\'Alvra in Romansh) is an Alpine pass in the Canton of Grisons, Switzerland, located at an altitude of 2,312 m. It connects the Hinterrhein valley from Thusis via Berg n'Bravuogn with the Engadine at La Punt. Alternatively, cars can be transported on special trains which connect Thusis to Samedan via the Albula railway tunnel. From an orographic point of view, the pass is located in the Albula Alps, a subsection of the western Rhaetian Alps.

Passo dell'Aprica (1,181 m) an alpine pass that connects Valtellina with Val Camonica and the administrative border between the provinces of Brescia and the provinces of Sondrio. The municipality of the same name is located on the pass, an important tourist centre. Because of its not excessive altitude it has always represented the preferential communication route for descending from the upper Valtellina to the Po Valley; the alternatives are in fact the Passo del Gavia and the Passo del Mortirolo which are located at higher altitudes and which have more demanding routes.

The Bernina Pass is an Alpine pass in Swiss territory (2,323 m a.s.l.) which connects the Poschiavo valley with the Engadine. From an orographic point of view, the pass separates the Livigno Alps (to the north-east) from the Bernina Alps (to the south-west), both subsections of the western Rhaetian Alps.

The Brunig Pass (in German Brunigpass) is a Swiss Alpine pass that connects Lucerne (Canton Lucerne) with Meiringen (Canton Bern). The railway service which, through the pass, connects Lucerne and Interlaken ensured by the Zentralbahn. From an orographic point of view, the pass is located in the Swiss Pre-Alps and separates the Bernese Pre-Alps from the Pre-Alps of Lucerne and Unterwalden.

The Forcola di Livigno (2,315 m) is an alpine pass located in the western Rhaetian Alps near the Italian-Swiss border, crossed by the road that connects the Italian municipality of Livigno (in the duty-free area) and the Grisons municipality of Poschiavo. At the pass itself stands the Italian customs, as the pass is located on the border. The Swiss customs office is instead located further downstream, near the junction with the cantonal road that goes up to the Bernina pass. The Italian side, which rises from Livigno, has no bends and the very long straights are interspersed with short slight slopes. The road does not directly overlook any particularly important mountain. The other side has a more tortuous course but allows, at times, to admire some Rhaetian mountains. It has the particularity of connecting a politically Swiss valley located south of the Alps (the Val Poschiavo, belonging to the Adda basin) with a politically Italian valley located north of the Alps (the Livigno valley, belonging to the Inn basin ), while from a geographical point of view the situation is reversed.

The Passo del Forno (Romansh Pass dal Fuorn, German Ofenpass) is an Alpine pass that connects the Grisons valleys of the Engadine and the Val Monastero and therefore also the Val Venosta (South Tyrol) and the Valtellina (Lombardy). From an orographic point of view, the pass is located in the Val Mastair Alps (subsection of the western Rhaetian Alps).

The Foscagno Pass is an alpine pass in the western Rhaetian Alps which connects the Livigno Valley with Valdidentro and Valtellina. The Pass is located at a height of 2,291 m.s.l.m. and can be reached via the Foscagno State Road 301. The pass represents the only way that allows you to reach Livigno without having to pass through Switzerland (through the Poschiavo Valley and the Forcola di Livigno). At the pass there is the customs office as the territory of Livigno is a duty-free area. From a hydrogeological point of view, the pass is the watershed between the basins of the Inn (and therefore of the Danube) to the north and of the Adda (and therefore of the Po) to the south.

The Furka Pass, Furkapass in German, is a Swiss Alpine pass. It connects the Vrsar Valley with the upper Valais in the Goms Valley at an altitude of 2,431 m. From a hydrographic point of view it is located on the watershed that divides the basin of the Rhine on the Uranus side from that of the Rhone in Valais. From an orographic point of view, it separates the Lepontine Alps from the Bernese Alps.

The Gavia Pass (2,621 m) is an alpine pass in the southern Rhaetian Alps, which connects the Gavia valley (Valfurva) and the upper Valle Camonica, on the border between the provinces of Sondrio and Brescia. It is crossed by a rolling road (SS 300 of Passo di Gavia) which from Bormio, passing through Santa Caterina di Valfurva leads to Ponte di Legno.

The Julierpass (in Italian Passo del Giulia) is an alpine pass in Swiss territory (2284mt a.s.l.) which connects the Hinterrhein valley and the Engadine respectively from Bivio to Silvaplana. Undoubtedly one of the most used passes, unlike the nearby Albulapass it is open all year round and therefore puts the cities of Saint Moritz and Thusis in stable communication. The border between the catchment areas of the Rhine and Danube is located on the pass. It was built around 1820 to replace the rough Septimer Pass.

The Lenzerheide Pass is a mountain pass between the Rhine valley near Chur and the Albula valley near Tiefencastel, Canton Grisons in Switzerland. Collina at an altitude of 1,549 m a.s.l. at approx. five kilometers north in the locality of Lenzerheide, between Valbella and Parpan. From an orographic point of view, it is located in the Plessur Alps (in the western Rhaetian Alps).

It is located at an altitude of 1,815 m and connects the Valchiavenna/Val Bregaglia with the Engadine, uniting the two towns of Chiavenna and St. Moritz, 50 km apart. It is located in the canton of Grisons, in the district of Maloggia. From an orographic point of view, it separates the Bernina Alps (south-east) from the Albula Alps (north-west), both subsections of the western Rhaetian Alps. It is closed during the winter period: as an alternative to passing through the pass, it is possible to take advantage of the Vereina railway connection (transported by car).

The Oberalp Pass, in German Oberalppass, is located on the San Gottardo massif, dividing the Glarus Alps to the north from the Lepontine Alps to the south. It connects the canton of Grisons with the canton of Uri. The road was built between 1852 and 1863. The pass is served by a narrow-gauge railway in some sections, the Matterhorn-Gotthard-Bahn. The Glacier Express, the famous train that connects Zermatt with Sankt Moritz, passes through the pass.

The Gotthard Pass, in German Gotthardpass, is one of the most important Alpine passes. Located in the central part of the Alpine arc. It connects the Reuss valley and the Leventina valley from north to south. It takes its name from Gotthard, a Bavarian bishop who lived around the year 1000 and was beatified one hundred years after his death.

The Sempione Pass or Sempione (Summo Plano is the Latin name, later rendered by the Walser as Simplon, now Simplonpass in German) is an Alpine pass at an altitude of 2,005 meters in Switzerland, in the Canton of Valais, which connects the Saltina Valley ( crossed by the Saltina stream), and Val Divedro (crossed by the Diveria stream), belonging respectively to the basins of the Rhone and Toce rivers. The pass is conventionally the border point between the Lepontine Alps to the east and the Pennine Alps to the west. It takes its name from the village of Simplon, located on the southern slope of the pass in Swiss territory. The Sempione pass is known for the historic communication route that connects Domodossola to Brig as well as for the Sempione Tunnel, an imposing railway engineering work opened in 1906 that connects Iselle di Trasquera to Brig. On the Sempione hill is the Sempione Hospice, wanted by the Canons of the Gran San Bernardo and built in 1666, which can accommodate up to 130 people.

The Passo dello Spluga, (in German: Splugenpass), is one of the most important passes in the Alps, known since ancient times for its easy transit. Located on the Italian-Swiss border at 2,114 m, it connects the upper Valle Spluga with the upper Rhine valley (Rheinwald). Its importance is not only historical and logistic but also geological, as it divides the stratum to the west with the stratum Suretta to the east. Traditionally it divides the Lepontine Alps from the Rhaetian Alps and, according to the traditional bipartition of the Alps in use in the other countries of the Alpine chain, taken from the SOIUSA classification, it divides the Western Alps from the Eastern Alps. The toponym Spluga, widespread in many parts of the Alpine arc, would refer to the Latin term spelunca or cave, signaling the presence of caves probably inhabited by wildlife, especially bears.

The Stelvio Pass (in German Stilfser Joch, 2,758 m a.s.l.) is the highest car pass in Italy and second in Europe after the Colle dell'Iseran. From an orographic point of view, the pass divides the western Rhaetian Alps from the southern Rhaetian Alps. The state road of the same name that crosses it connects Bormio and Valtellina with Trafoi and Val Venosta. The road has 48 hairpin bends on the South Tyrolean side and 36 on the Lombard side. The pass is located near the border with the Swiss Grisons, to which it is connected via the nearby Giogo di Santa Maria/Umbrail Pass. The Stelvio is an important summer connection especially for its tourist and sporting vocation, not only for ski and mountain tourism, but also because it is a popular destination for cyclists and motorcyclists. The pass is located within the Stelvio National Park, near important massifs such as Monte Livrio, Ortles and Monte Scorluzzo.

Passo San Marco (altitude 1,991 m a.s.l.) is a road pass as well as the highest hill in the Province of Bergamo and connects Val Brembana to Valtellina. The Valtellina side reaches slopes of 12% while the Brembano side reaches peaks of 16%. The pass is about 26 km from Morbegno and 16 from Olmo al Brembo. At the pass it is possible to admire the effigies of the then Republic of Venice who built this road for economic development with the Swiss valleys. On the orobic side of the pass is the Rifugio C San Marco, for years the roadman's house of the San Marco Pass and one of the oldest refuges in the Alps, built in 1593. The 2007 Giro d'Italia climbed the San Marco Pass from the Valtellina side, in the stage that ended in Bergamo.

Passo del Tonale, located at 1,883 m a.s.l., is an alpine pass in the southern Rhaetian Alps which divides the Ortles Alps to the north and the Adamello and Presanella Alps to the south. It connects the Val di Sole (Municipality of Vermiglio) with the Upper Valle Camonica (Ponte di Legno). Located on the administrative border between the Province of Brescia and the Province of Trento, it has developed urbanistically in recent decades outside the rules, with excessive building speculation which has led to the strong contrast between the decidedly oversized architecture and the wonderful surrounding environmental context, definitively destroying the serene mountain landscape that still characterized it in the 1960s. A tourist center in both summer and winter, Passo del Tonale is a base for numerous mountaineering and hiking itineraries that allow you to get in touch with the nature of the Rhaetian Alps and the historical reality of the White War which here left numerous signs still alive in the landscape. The mountains surrounding Passo del Tonale were, in fact, the scene of battles during the First World War: a monumental shrine built in the 1930s now houses the remains of over 800 Italian and Austro-Hungarian fallen soldiers. In the area it is possible to visit the Museum of the White War in Adamello a Temù, as well as the interesting collections of memorabilia from Vermiglio and Pejo. Tonale can be reached via the State Road 42 of Tonale and Mendola, which connects Treviglio in the Province of Bergamo with Bolzano through the two homonymous passes.

The Giogo di Santa Maria or Passo dell'Umbrail (in Romansh Pass dal Umbrail, in German Umbrailpass or Wormserjoch) (2,503 m) is an alpine pass located in the western Rhaetian Alps near the Italian-Swiss border. It is located near the Stelvio pass and was opened in 1901. From the pass you have a view of the Val Monastero, the Valle di Fraele, the Valtellina and the Val di Trafoi. It can be reached from the IV Cantoniera of the Stelvio Pass. From the game it is possible to go down to Switzerland, or to Santa Maria, through a small road (for 2.5 kilometers even a dirt road), which is narrow and sloping and leads in 13 kilometers to the Val Monastero, after 1,126 meters in altitude.

The Vereina tunnel is located in eastern Switzerland and, at 19,058 metres, is the longest railway tunnel in the Swiss RhB/MGB transport network. The service is based on regional train timetables between Scuol-Tarasp and Chur, supplemented every 30 minutes by shuttle trains for transporting road vehicles between the two valleys connected through the tunnel and for freight trains. The tunnel has a single track, with splitting of the tracks in strategic points to allow the simultaneous passage of trains arriving from the opposite portal. It is an alternative connection to the one offered by the Fluela pass which is closed during the winter.