To address the ongoing abuses committed by landowners and field overseers, part of the customs revenues was reinvested in the restoration of state-owned lands and in monitoring the proper conduct of transhumance. Alongside targeted restorations, carried out whenever a violation was detected, comprehensive restorations also became necessary, aimed at remedying particularly serious situations in which encroachments had compromised the entire transhumance system, making travel along the very tratturi, which formed its structural backbone, difficult.

The first comprehensive restoration took place between 1551 and 1554, about a century after the establishment of the Dogana di Foggia. It was the first occasion on which a systematic operation of placing boundary markers was undertaken, bearing the initials RT (Regio Tratturo), in order to delimit the tratturi, clearly restoring their width to 60 Neapolitan paces (approximately 111 meters) and eliminating encroachments, mainly carried out by local barons. On that occasion, a comprehensive mapping of the routes was also carried out. The initiative was promoted by Pedro de Toledo, Viceroy of Naples, who died in 1553 before seeing its completion.

The second restoration followed about fifty years later, in the period 1592–1595. It was promoted by Enrique de Guzmán, Count of Olivares and Viceroy of Naples, with the aim of updating the previous work and more precisely defining the riposi, that is, the stopping places of transhumant flocks, as well as the related accessory areas. On this occasion too, boundary markers were placed to delimit the tratturi.

In 1651 Capecelatro carried out an intervention in the Tavoliere and on certain Abruzzese tratturi, aimed at verifying the condition of the drove roads and identifying encroachments, narrowing, and unlawful occupations, with the purpose of drafting detailed reports for the Dogana di Foggia. The intervention was not a comprehensive restoration, but rather an administrative and technical survey, carried out to inform the Crown of irregularities and suggest possible corrective measures.

The third restoration, which can be dated between 1749 and 1751, developed within the reformist climate promoted by Bernardo Tanucci, Secretary of State to Charles of Bourbon. It was largely based on technical surveys carried out in the 1720s and 1730s by Giovan Battista (or Giovanni Battista) Bonamici, an engineer and technical commissioner of the Regia Dogana. It largely consisted of formally acknowledging the existing situation. By the mid-eighteenth century, the institution of transhumance was already in sharp decline, and pressure from landowners bordering the tratturi had become very intense. The Bourbon intervention mainly aimed to monetize the encroachments that had already occurred: no new boundary markers were installed, nor was any attempt made to restore the original width of the tratturi in sections where it had been reduced.

The final restoration (1810–1811) took place after the abolition of the Dogana di Foggia in 1806, under the French government led by Joseph Bonaparte and subsequently Joachim Murat. Since compulsory transhumance had ceased, the objective of the intervention was solely to survey and delimit the remaining state-owned properties. During this phase, new boundary markers were installed, this time numbered progressively, to mark what remained of the tratturi. The markers placed on one side of the drove road bear even numbers, while those on the opposite side bear odd numbers. Opposing markers therefore do not share the same number but advance according to a synchronized longitudinal sequence on each side. In the case of curves, in order to maintain synchronization, two or more markers bearing the same number were placed on the outer boundary.

In some rare sections of the route, it is still possible today to find boundary markers attributable simultaneously to the first, second, and fourth restoration, bearing witness to the historical layering of these delimitation interventions. 

The final major historical survey dates from 1875 to 1884, carried out after the establishment of the Kingdom of Italy. It was conducted, among others, by the surveyors Eduardo Bonamici and Carlo Ciampi, and aimed to determine what still remained, at state level, of the tratturi.

The last official map was printed in 1912, by decree published in the Gazzetta Ufficiale no. 97 of 23 April 1912. The resulting Carta dei tratturi, tratturelli, bracci e riposi consists of a 1:50,000 scale map including the entire drove-road network and its state of preservation. An update prepared by the Istituto Geografico Militare was published in 1959.