Nature Reserve Bosco di Alcamo, Regional nature reserve on Mount Bonifato, Alcamo, Italy.

Nature Reserve Bosco di Alcamo is a protected forest area on Mount Bonifato featuring a mix of pine forests and Mediterranean plants adapted to limestone soils. The terrain offers different elevation zones, each with distinct vegetation patterns and landscape features.

Until the 19th century Mount Bonifato was covered by a broad-leaved wood that disappeared through human action, fire and timber cutting. From 1921 the slope was reforested with Aleppo pine, cypress and umbrella pine, and native broad-leaved species later gradually returned. Wildfires remain a recurring threat: in June 1998 arson fires driven by the scirocco wind burned ten hectares beside the reserve.

The mountain's name survives in the ruins of the fortified town of Bùnifat, whose single-room stone buildings, cisterns and snow-storage pits (neviere) lie within the reserve. Nearby stand the Castle of the Ventimiglia family, the Porta Regina gate and a prehistoric necropolis, and the Funtanazza water reservoir. The ampelodesma grass once cut here was twisted into ropes and used to tie vines.

The reserve has three marked hiking trails of varying lengths, all starting and finishing at accessible points near the base of the mountain. Sturdy shoes are essential since the paths cross rocky uneven ground, and bringing plenty of water is important given the exposed terrain.

The ampelodesma grass, called "disa" locally, was once harvested here to tie vines and to make ropes and baskets. Ferula stalks became chairs, stools and small tables, while dwarf palm leaves filled mattresses and were bound into brooms.