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Sea caves and a black-sand beach after a short coastal path.
Senderos de La Aldea is the network of walking routes in the municipality of La Aldea de San Nicolás, in the west of Gran Canaria, promoted by its town council. It gathers more than 300 kilometres of paths arranged in four levels of difficulty, from easy to extreme, across a landscape of pronounced relief. The routes cross mountains, valleys, ravines and beaches within the municipal area.
Senderismo La Palma is a guided walking service on the island of La Palma, based in Los Llanos de Aridane. The routes it advertises include an interpretive geological walk around the Tajogaite volcano, the viewpoints of La Cumbrecita, a visit to the telescopes at the Roque de Los Muchachos and an astronomy tour built around stargazing. Activities are arranged by telephone, WhatsApp or email.
A Cabildo recreation and camping area beside the Las Niñas reservoir in Tejeda, inside the Nublo Rural Park, with pine woods, walking trails and barbecue spots.
A 204-hectare public estate of the Cabildo in Teror, inside the Doramas Rural Park, with laurel forest, educational trails and visits by prior permit.
A 7,538-hectare Natural Park in north-west Gran Canaria, spanning Artenara, Agaete and La Aldea, protecting one of the island's best preserved natural pine forests.
A natural spring with seven heather-wood spouts in the laurel forest of north-west La Gomera, beside the hamlet of Épina and the start of several walking routes.
A former seasonal lagoon among chestnut trees, with trails, barbecue picnic areas, a playground and a viewpoint; dogs allowed.
Volcanic crater on the Gran Canaria summit, its farmed floor visible in full from the rim beside the road.
The Ruta de los Molinos is the short-distance trail PR LP 02.2 of the La Palma trail network, starting in Santa Cruz de La Palma from the Barriada del Pilar or the Campo del Mensajero. It covers about 7 kilometres of medium difficulty, with 410 metres of ascent and roughly two hours of walking. It can be done all year round, and it is even more interesting in rainy spells, when water runs down the ravines.
Fuente de Los Roques lies in the municipality of Fuencaliente de La Palma, in the south of the island, in walking country. The official sheet for stage 3 of the GR-131, which links Refugio de El Pilar with Fuencaliente and therefore ends in this same municipality, describes that route as a whole: 23.7 kilometres of descending profile, with a climb early on and a high difficulty rating.
A kilometre and a half of earth and stone track along the coastal shelf of San Juan de la Rambla, linking the seaside hamlet of Las Aguas with the Rosario neighbourhood. It takes about an hour, the difficulty is low, and the whole route behaves like one long viewpoint over the water. Along the way there are terraces of potatoes and bananas, tamarisks, reed beds, agaves and the small Callados beach.
Trail number 7 of Teide National Park, running from the foot of Montaña Blanca up to La Rambleta: 8.3 kilometres of high difficulty with 1,194 metres of cumulative ascent.
Archaeological park in northern La Palma, in Garafía, with rock engravings of the ancient Benahoarita people and an interpretive trail winding through laurel forest.
Nature reserve between Firgas and Moya in northern Gran Canaria, with a lush ravine and a classic trail along the riverbed. Uneven terrain; proper footwear is advisable.
A La Palma volcano born in the 2021 Cumbre Vieja eruption, near El Paso, now one of the island's leading hiking and geotourism destinations.
A 45-hectare Protected Landscape on the coast of Los Realejos, Tenerife, crossed by a walking path past Canary palm groves, dragon trees and historic buildings.
Natural water spring in Los Realejos, on the green northern coast of Tenerife.
The Barranco de los Cernícalos in Valsequillo is one of the few watercourses on Gran Canaria that runs all year round. One of the island's best wild olive woods grows on its slopes and a willow grove thrives on the bed; the water comes channelled down from the summits and forms small waterfalls. The name comes from the kestrel, the bird of prey that nests in the ravine. The picnic area marks the start of the easiest walk, about three kilometres long.
A guided trail through a special nature reserve that starts above Adeje's old town. Around 6.5 kilometres there and back, some three and a half hours, with a compulsory helmet, a limit of 300 visitors a day and booking required in advance.
The Paseo Marítimo Bristol is a seafront promenade in Corralejo, the town in the municipality of La Oliva in the north of Fuerteventura. The street is about 740 metres long and belongs to the Bristol area of town. La Oliva Town Council set about removing structures and obstacles that got in the way of people walking along it, aiming to recover and widen the public space for pedestrians and cyclists.
The Hoya de Fileba volcano rises in the municipality of Valverde, on the ridge that separates the summit of El Hierro from the El Golfo escarpment. Its crater, at around 1,330 metres above sea level, measures some 450 metres across and about 160 metres deep, and is regarded as one of the best preserved on the island. A viewpoint of its own looks into the caldera.
A hiking area in the north of the municipality of Puerto del Rosario, around Montaña de la Muda. The official Canary Islands tourism portal places this mountain at the southernmost vertex of the Vallebrón ridge and marks it as a site of historical interest, because it holds an archaeological deposit with an unusual burial system. The Vallebrón Protected Landscape is shared between Puerto del Rosario and La Oliva and covers almost 1,680 hectares.
The Ruta de La Plata is a network of footpaths, drovers' tracks and royal roads that crosses the interior of Gran Canaria and links the south of the island with the north. The routes were laid out by the island's early inhabitants and were widened and improved at the end of the nineteenth century. The itinerary passes through places of high scenic and cultural value, among them Cruz de Tejeda, Cruz Grande and the town of Tunte.
Hiking area at Teno Alto, in the municipality of Buenavista del Norte, inside the Parque Rural de Teno. The town council describes a route here that runs mostly along tracks with an almost imperceptible gradient and takes about an hour and a half, passing the hamlet of Los Bailaderos, threshing floors with an aventadero, goat pens, rock cut cisterns and a tile kiln. The descent of the Barranco de Masca is a separate route with regulated visits.
The circular path around the Caldera de Bandama follows the rim of this volcanic crater across the municipalities of Santa Brígida, Telde and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. According to the official Canary Islands tourism portal it covers 4.2 kilometres, takes around two and a half hours, is graded low in difficulty and has an average gradient of 18 per cent, walkable all year round.
The Sendero Circular Las Raíces appears in the trail network of El Rosario council under the reference PR-TF 25.1, part of the waymarked network of Tenerife. It runs through the surroundings of the Área Recreativa de Las Raíces, on the Las Lagunetas hillside, a gathering point for open air recreation among the pine woodland typical of the higher ground of the island.
Cruz del Dornajito is the end point of the Camino Real de Chasna itinerary published by La Orotava town council in its La Orotava SlowTours collection. The cross marks the start of the monteverde, the laurel woodland, and the point where private land is left behind. A natural spring here once quenched the thirst of walkers climbing towards the Teide, and the spot still holds moisture.
Walking country in the high north of Gran Canaria, around the Monte Pavón recreation area, which the island council places at 1,200 metres above sea level. The S 01 trail runs through here, linking Cruz de Tejeda with Pinos de Gáldar and Saucillo over thirteen kilometres, and shorter stretches branch off from the area through replanted pine woods and high pastureland.
A walking route through the Barranco de la Virgen in Valleseco, one of the deepest and narrowest ravines in the north of Gran Canaria. According to the municipal tourism site, the ravine forms part of the Doramas Rural Park and still holds remnants of the laurel forest that once covered the interior of the island, between walls that have sheltered endemic plants, with the laurel pigeon reintroduced in the area.
Trail to the Marcos y Cordero springs that passes through thirteen tunnels carved into the rock down to the Los Tilos forest.
A waymarked trail, the PR FV 55, climbing from Gran Valle to the Degollada de Cofete pass at 343 metres and then dropping to the hamlet and the beach of Cofete, inside the Jandía Natural Park. It measures 6.7 kilometres with 303 metres of ascent, is rated moderate and takes around two hours. It starts at the car park on the dirt track that links Morro Jable with Punta de Jandía, in the municipality of Pájara.
El Bosque de Los Enigmas is a walking area near Tegueste, in the north east of Tenerife. You reach it from the main road and cover the route on foot. There are no facilities or services at the starting point, so bring water, proper walking shoes and a warm layer: on the northern side of the island mist and damp move in quickly. Plan your return while there is still daylight.
The Las Peñitas dam blocks the ravine of the same name in the municipality of Betancuria, inside the protected Parque Rural de Betancuria. It was built in 1937 and is now completely silted up, so it no longer holds a permanent reservoir. The approach is on foot along the local SL FV 27 trail from Vega de Río Palmas, which follows the ravine bed among Canary palms and tamarisks into a narrow granite gorge.
The PR-TF 53 drops from Erjos down to Los Silos through the Teno Rural Park: 5.7 kilometres, around three hours, intermediate difficulty. It starts close to 1,000 metres and ends at 105, so it is more than nine hundred metres of almost continuous descent along the old royal road, through the laurel forest of Monte del Agua and the Cuevas Negras ravine. No permit is required to walk it.
The Jardina path climbs the northeastern edge of La Laguna, at the point where the farmed Aguere valley gives way to the Anaga Rural Park, a Unesco biosphere reserve since 2015. It runs past vegetable plots, eucalyptus and pockets of laurel forest, with the town spread out behind you. The walking is easy and needs no mountain experience. Parking at the entrance is limited and fills up quickly at weekends.
High on the northwestern ridge of Gran Canaria, at around 1,200 metres, this recreation area sits in young replanted pinewood, between grazing land and steep damp ravines that still hold the last patches of laurel forest. It makes a practical starting point for the S-01 trail, thirteen kilometres linking Cruz de Tejeda with Pinos de Gáldar and Saucillo. No advance booking is needed to use it.
Los Nateros is a farming and recreational area in La Matanza de Acentejo, on the mid slopes of northern Tenerife at around 635 metres. Its name comes from the stone walls that hold back soil and water on the hillside, a practice that has slowly made this ground fertile. Several footpaths set off among terraced vines, chestnut trees and pine woods, and the town council has laid out fitness circuits, a small square and a play area.
A 10.7 kilometre trail between Erjos and Las Portelas, of medium difficulty and around three hours' walking. Almost the whole route follows a forest track through the laurel forest and fayal brezal of Monte del Agua, in north west Tenerife. It is one of the areas where the endemic pigeons of the laurel woodland can be seen. The route is linear, so the way back to the starting point has to be sorted out.
Special nature reserve in Moya, in the north of Gran Canaria, protecting the last continuous laurel forest on the island, a remnant of the old Selva de Doramas.
Pine forest nature park of nearly 5,800 hectares in the southern mountains of Gran Canaria, in the municipality of San Bartolomé de Tirajana.
Protected landscape that forms the only natural outlet of the Caldera de Taburiente, a deep ravine of vertical walls reaching the coast.
Recreational area amid Canary pine forest on the Cumbre Vieja, the classic starting point of the Volcano Route on La Palma.
Classic signposted trail crossing the floor of the Teide caldera, from El Portillo, among pines, brooms and vast lava flows.
Old shepherds' path that zigzags down the towering Risco de Famara cliff, in Teguise, to the Río salt pans, with La Graciosa always in view.
A 2,715 m summit in Teide National Park, the third-highest in the Canaries, with a classic circular route from the Parador in La Orotava. A demanding high-mountain climb.
Protected laurel forest and ravines in northern Gran Canaria, with marked hiking trails and regular birdwatching.
Long crossing trail through inland La Oliva linking Tindaya, Vallebrón and Tefía across arid ridges and rural hamlets.
Trail through the El Cedro laurel forest in Garajonay to the chapel of Nuestra Señora de Lourdes beside the woodland stream.
Long crossing of around 16 km through Garajonay National Park traversing every ecosystem of La Gomera's laurel forest.
Classic Anaga crossing descending from the Monteverde forest at Cruz del Carmen to the coast at Punta del Hidalgo via Chinamada.
Circular summit route in Gran Canaria linking Llanos de la Pez with Pico de las Nieves and the Degollada de Los Hornos.
Mountain trail in the Anaga Massif climbing from Benijo through dragon trees, laurel forest and lookouts over the Roques de Anaga.
A waterfall at the end of a short, easy trail through laurel-forest tunnels, in the Los Tilos Biosphere Reserve (San Andrés y Sauces). One of La Palma's most popular walks.
The highest point of Lanzarote, 670 m up on the Risco de Famara, reached on foot with panoramic views of Famara and the Chinijo archipelago.
Circular route from Vilaflor through Canary pine forest to the Paisaje Lunar, a cluster of eroded cones that look like another planet. A demanding trail.
A hamlet of cave houses deep in the Anaga massif and one of Tenerife's most admired hikes, with dizzying viewpoints over the coast.
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