Treks in the National Park Peneda-Gerês.
Note: The indicated time frames are guide lines, taking as a pattern people used to trekking, and that inside their possibilities apply a medium intensity rhythm in the activity.
-Time: 03:00 H.
-Difficulty: low.
-Effort: average.
-beauty: high. (Artificial lake, low and high vegetation, oak grove, hollys, stone, rivers, stone walls, small pools, nice view).
Route entirely well-defined firm paved much of the route, treks of land marked by frequent movement of cattle and people, with pronounced slopes and constants.
-Time: 02:45 H.
-Difficulty: low.
-Effort: average.
-Beauty: high. (artificial lake, vegetation low e high, oak grove, hollys, stone, rivers, walls stone, small pools, nice view).
Trek ground slightly marked, helping in its definition placement porters over the route, the rest of the journey is coincident with the characteristics of Trek 1.
-Time 01:30 H.
-Difficulty: average.
-Effort: average.
-Beauty: high. (artificial lake, low and high vegetation, oak grove, hollys, stone, rivers, walls stone, small pools, nice view).
Route without marks, it is advisable to follow a large part of the journey through the treks left by cattle over time; when foggy is most likely the diversion and loss of the trek.
-Time 03:10 H.
-Difficulty: low.
-Effort: average-high.
-beauty: high. (River, village de montanha, mountain pastures, cabanas de pastoreio, vegetação low, carvalho, hollys, stone, wall and gap of the wolf, nice view).
Route well marked, trail trek by land, with the exception of the top to the high summer pastures, where it must deviate to the left; steep since the beginning, with parts of less steepness.
-Time: 03:50 H.
-Difficulty: average.
-Effort: average-high.
-Beauty: high. (Rivers, mountain villages, wall and gap of the wolf, mountain pastures, shepherd's huts, low vegetation, oak grove, hollys, pines, stone, nice view).
Route both on treks that combine land and in the poorly defined routes with abundant vegetation and stones, other than to find at times and places of grazing cattle pasture.
-Time: 02:30 H.
-Difficulty: low.
-Effort: low.
-Beauty: average. (River, pools, villages, stone, low and high vegetation, oaks, nice view).
Route dirt trek, and some parts well trodden by the passage of cattle, is advised during the summer and lowering until Gavieira; during the trek you can enjoy a refreshing swim in its pools cold waters that are along the trek.
-Time: 03:20 H.
-Difficulty: high.
-Effort: high.
-Beauty: high. (Stone, high and low vegetation, oaks, river, hollys, walls stone, mountain pastures, nice view).
Route mostly across the hill, taking advantage from time to time of treks trampled by cattle; marked by a relief from hard and rough stone and vegetation, in some instances small marks guide the trek.
-Time: 03:50 H.
-Difficulty: average-high.
-Effort: high.
-Beauty: high. (Stone, high and low vegetation, oaks, streams, mountain pastures, nice view, shepherd's huts, villages).
Steep route where we will find a trek marked at the start and end points, then it must be guided by the lay of the land in which they are occasionally cattle treks advised to be taken; do not deviate from the route.
-Time: 01:25 H.
-Difficulty: low.
-Effort: low-average.
-Beauty: average-high. (Vegetação high e low, river, oaks, campos, villages).
Marked treks along the whole route, the river can be found in numerous places where you can bathe and put out the searing heat of summer. Altitude variation short and marked.
-Time: 01:30 H.
-Difficulty: low.
-Effort: average.
-Beauty: average-high. (high and low vegetation, stream, mountain pastures, pines, nice view).
Route marked on all treks, runs through part of the trek Peneda Ribeiro Low and serves as a union, at the time of the great mountain pastures, to the largest that is in the north, to see it you need to deviate from the trek Peneda Ribeiro Low for 3 minutes and locate it behind a hill, with its numerous stone huts. Short gaps and marked.
-Time: 02:10 H.
-Difficulty: low.
-Effort: low.
-Beauty: average. (high vegetation, oak grove and big trees, rivers, stones)
Route trek completely marked, joining the park entrance west to the town of Nossa Senhora da Peneda. The trek at times crosses the road, in its entirety takes place parallel to it by different margins of this. Gap very pronounced.
-Time: 02:50 H.
-Difficulty: high.
-Effort: average–high.
-Beauty: high. (low and high vegetation, oaks, stones, nice view).
Route of difficult progression, we find a steep and rocky terrain where it will be necessary a short climb; from time to time there are moments of rest for the poor ankles.
-Time: 04:10 H.
-Difficulty: high.
-Effort: high. (low and high vegetation, oaks, stones, nice view, rivers, streams, mountain pastures, village).
Route varied, which switches the pace of progress caused by the alternation of the steepness; we find places where we can bathe and refresh. Attention to orientation, the topography of the land lends itself to confusion to correct progression.
-Time: 01:45 H.
-Difficulty: low-average.
-Effort: low-average. (low and high vegetation, oaks, pines, stones, streams, nice view, low pastures).
Route easy progression, long and steep.
-Time: 02:15 H.
-Difficulty: low.
-Effort: average. (low pastures, low and high vegetation, oaks, pines, river, streams, villages).
Route of well-defined steepness, where the direction is clear.
-Time: 01:45 H.
-Difficulty: low.
-Effort: low. (low pastures, villages, low and high vegetation, oaks, river, streams).
Well-defined route, takes place in a high valley, where the few existing gaps are mild and short.
-Time: 06:20 H.
-Difficulty: high.
-Effort: high. (Pastures lows e de montanha, villages, vegetação low e pouco high, river, streams, stones).
Route long, difficult location and progression in the high mountain, where we can find short abundant speed changes due to the topography of the land.
-Time: 05:00 H.
-Difficulty: high.
-Effort: high. (low pastures, villages, high vegetation, oak grove, corktrees, rivers, streams, stones, waterfall).
Route of slow progression and poorly defined in which one should locate the point where to cross the river if you do not want to bathe in the cold, humid winter days, as for the warm days this section has no importance! Before crossing the river we find a place used for camping near beautiful pools. From this place we will follow the course of the river by the old Roman trek; about 1200m in the middle curve we find a stream which lowers to the river, follow the course of this until you reach the river, here we find two stones, one on each bank of the river, including a distance of 3 meters, this is the point where we should jump if one does not want to bathe in the river; from here a difficult trek takes us to Ribeiro de Baixo.
-Time: 05:30 H.
-Difficulty: average.
-Effort: average. (Cruzar estradas, villages, stones, paredes, rivers, streams, pastures lows, low and high vegetation, oaks, nice view).
Route in which the main difficulty is the length, there is the possibility of splitting it into different stages through the existence of different villages and road points that can be the start and end of the steps we will take at the moment circumstances.
-Time: 01:40 H.
-Difficulty: low.
-Effort: low. (road, villages, low pastures, nice view, low and high vegetation, oaks).
Route recommended if you wish to contact with the area, for a family seeking to integrate with the surroundings in a pleasurable way.
-Time: 00:50 H.
-Difficulty: low.
-Effort: low. (nice view, ruins, stones, high and low vegetation).
Route that introduces us to the ruins of the ancient castle of Castro Laboreiro and since there we can contemplate the villages and their nearest surroundings.
-Time:01:30 H.
-Difficulty: low.
-Effort: low. (nice view, river, waterfalls)
Quiet and relaxing route, in contact with the surroundings.
-Time:
-Difficulty: high.
-Effort: high.
-Time: 05:35 H.
-Difficulty: low-average.
-Effort: average. (nice view, low vegetation, rivers, streams, pastures, fields, mountain plateau, villages).
Route where most of the course unfolds over a mountainous plateau that lends itself to mark a steady pace thanks to the mild and marked treks in their gaps; ideal place in mountain bike, except for one section that links the village of Rodeiro with Portos, which passes near the village of Corral de Gonzalo.
Time: 01:50 H
Difficulty: low
Effort: average. (low and high vegetation, stones, river, streams, villages, lake, nice view).
Well-defined route, the high zone of the trek is marked with numerous markers; in this area the thick fog can confuse the walker's time to find the trek, it is advisable not to make the trek in conditions of heavy rain, since the river will flow with too much water and too hard to be able to cross.