Parque Nacional Torres del Paine | Tourist Attraction
Chile
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- GPS:
- -50.97961, -72.79955
- Altitude:
- 99.6 masl
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Lago Sarmiento entrance and Ranger Station. Park entrance. No international student discount. Important: the entrance fee is a one-time charge. You can stay as long as you want. During the first 3 days it is even allowed to leave and enter the park again.
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The park is really expensive, 45.000 clp per person for more than 3 days (January 2024). Nothing justifies such a price, and this is just a big theft. The places to sleep in, or the facilities are really poor, + the road is absolutely terrible. Definitely the worst cash machine you'll find in Chile, because all you have is, indeed the park is beautiful, trails and lakes.
🥾There are a lot of hikes to do but you'll have to download the tracks before being into the park because there's no signal in there (only at the top of some mountains).
The suda and alltrails app are good to find hikes.
⛽️ There is no gasoline in the park
🥘 Also if you don’t want to pay the expensive restaurants here, you have to make food stocks.
Tips:
if you don't plan on leaving the park and coming back, you can take the 3 days pass (33.000 clp) and stay as long as you want in there. Just be sure you'll don't have to show your tickets again but it's allowed. We made the mistake of taking the "more than 3 days pass" and just lost 12.000 clp each.
Be careful with the wind as it blows really hard in there.
Torres del Paine National Park is well worth a visit! The landscapes are beautiful, the hikes and the animals you meet there too.
- $31,200cl per person by buying on the park's website. Since January 1, it is impossible to take your tickets on site, you must take them on the site web. Valid for 3 days if you leave and then return from the park in the meantime, but if you stay there and live in a motorhome, you can stay there longer.
- Free wifi (starlink) which captures quite well at the top of the stairs (useful for taking the tickets :)).
- Beware, the roads are very bad, there is very often a very bad wavy rupio, never tar. The road leading to the Glaciar Gray is horrible.
- there is often a fairly strong wind
very overhyped park. all the roads are bad washboards, but for free (after 21:30) it was okay…
Report Check-InWanted to add that it’s nevertheless a nice place, and you can find ways to do longer hikes
Report Check-InAfter all the hype about Torres del paine can’t help but feel disappointed. Came here during winter and I paid 56 000 for 2 with, 2 possible parking lots and 3x 1-2h hikes with most of the park closed for hikes with guides only.
Report Check-InSee comments below and check the National park website for updated information. There’s no gate, just a couple of cones and a small parking lot with stairs leading up to the check-in building. No one checked our papers when we left midday. Chile’s cash cow is composed of bumpy dirt roads, new facilities, and worthwhile views. Driving through and camping along the way is beautiful. You can hike Torres Paine & plenty of the mirador hikes without additional payment (very fulfilling) or you can indulge in hotels, domes, restaurants, and treks (also nice).
Side note: Be sure to check out the wild camping spot at Serrano just outside the western entrance. It’s the most beautiful campsite in the area and not even in the park! Happy travels (:
Report Check-InNo dogs allowed. If the rangers see or hear your dog, you will be denied entry. No refunds. No games. There is no check of the back of the vehicle or camper. No one is looking for dogs. You could easily drive into and around this national park with a dog in your rig. But if you sneak in with your dogs you are violating the rules. No dogs allowed.
Report Check-InAt the moment (covid time), you can't buy tickets here or do anything else, everything is closed. It's only possible at Rio Serrano entry. You are supposed to book online, but the ranger just took our names and let us pass. We had to pay while exiting at Rio Serrano.
Report Check-InThe bigger entrance.
They seems to have better informations, and have a white board with weather forecast.
Tap water from the bathrooms not drinkable.
As mentioned, ARS 25‘000 pp now for 3 days ticket. It’s the cash cow of all Chilean National Parks and very busy but still an impressive amd beautiful place to visit. Try to ditch the crowds by getting up early (most groups don’t...)
Report Check-InEntrance Fee is now 25‘000 pp and 35‘000 pp if you stay more than three days. If you want to leave the park and come back the next day you need to mention this to the park ranger at registration.
Did the Torres del Paine day-hike: took about 3h15 to go up an 2h15 to go down.
Nice place to camp, free toilet 24h and as other comments say, we tried to wake up in the morning and drove inside park (around 6 AM). No one around so just went for hike. Recommend :)
Report Check-InThe gravel roads start here at the entrance of the park before o cerro castillo is all good.
Report Check-InWe showed our temporary RUT and the nice ranger gave us a map and waved us through without paying anything- super quiet at this time of year I think.
Report Check-InWe are not Chileans but we have temporary RUT numbers. We shew them at the entrance and, like all the other national parks in Chile, they made us pay national price (after some hesitations) : 6000$ per person for 3 days...
Report Check-InThe hike is 20km total and took me about 3 hours up and 2 down and I saw zero rangers. (No signs at the lot, just start walking along the rail beside the road and wooden signs start popping up shortly after the welcome center).
Report Check-InIt is possible to pay for the tickets with USD (rate was 1 USD = 600 CLP, not the best but it was the same as in El Cafayate).
Report Check-In11000 for foreigners in low season . Wanted to do the day-hike but I wasn't allowed without a guide (50000 pp) which was too expensive for me. Maybe another time!
Report Check-InThe entrance at Laguna Amarga is one of four to the Parque Nacional Torres del Paine. The other three are at Serrano, Lago Sarmiento and Laguna Azul. The entrance fee for foreigners is 21.000 CLP per person. No discounts. You can stay inside the park as long as you like. In addition, you can leave and re-enter the park with your ticket and the entrance form during the first three days.
Report Check-Inits definitely a high price to go in the park. it worth it with good weather for sure but in march the clima was not that good.
Report Check-InStill very expensive, they will not give you so much information if you don't pay. You pay 21 000 pesos/p for a map... Not a lot of day hike, not very well organized. Difficult to sleep in a protected area. If you try to go in after 9:00 pm you will have a chance to not pay, but we have been controlled. If you want to buy a ticket try to go in the afternoon, the line at 9:00 am was 150m long, the same at the south entrance. MONEY MACHINE PARK.
Report Check-InThe Fantástico Sur camps they charge 20000 for a tent, 10000 for a mat and winter sleeping bag and you pay for a 3 course dinner, breakfast or a packed lunch. It’s not cheap but it’s the same price as booking online and if you bring all of your own stuff you save on the costs.
Not sure about the highly demanded Glacier Grey camp but the others seemed to all have availabilities.
If you don’t feel like forking out the big bucks for the camps, long day trips are also possible if you park in the Visitor Centre parking or get a Ferry from Lago Pehoe.
In all, we ended up doing the W trek without reservations in high season to see what all the hype was all about. We found the whole thing to be a bit of a tourist trap and all a bit overrated (besides the Torres del Paine) but decide for yourself!
I would like to add that you do have more than three days in the park. You can come and leave in the first three days as you like and then the ticket is valid for three days but if you don't leave you can stay as long as you whish for!
Report Check-InImportant: the entrance fee is a one-time charge. You can stay as long as you want - if you do not leave. During the first 3 days it is even allowed to leave and enter the park again.
Report Check-InPark entrance very expensive indeed. We paid for the entrance, but we heard from others they entered the park after 9PM and were not charged for entrance. Ticket is nowhere to be shown - do with this information what you want
Report Check-InOne of the 4 entrances to the national park. From here you can go to start all the day walk trails. Entrance fee for foreigners is 21.000 pesos pp. The fee is valid for 3 days. At the ranger stations you can stay the night in your campervan for free and use the bathrooms. When you leave the park you have to show your tickets and white form again for another stamp. We entered the park a little south: Sarmiento, coming from Cerro Castillo at the Argentinan border.
Report Check-InUnfassbar, Ausländer müssen 30 Euro pro Person für die Einfahrt bezahlen. Campingplätze kosten extra.
Report Check-InSaw a line of backpackers here in the morning that was out the door and fifty meters down the road.
Report Check-InHIGH SEASON (October to April): adultos nacionales $6.000, niños nacionales, $2.000 adultos extranjeros $21.000, niños extranjeros $6.000, adulto en situación de discapacidad$6.000 y adulto mayor $3.000.
LOW SEASON (May to September): adultos nacionales $4.000, niños nacionales $1.000, adultos extranjeros $11.000, niños extranjeros $1.000, adulto en situación de discapacidad$2.000 y adulto mayor$1.000. Temporada alta se considera desde octubre a abril y Temporada baja desde mayo a septiembre.
Park entrance. 21000 for foreigners, 3000 nationals. No international student discount.
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