Punta Arena - Lighthouse | Wild Camping

February 12th, 2024 by secondaryhearthside88

I tried to get to the lighthouse using the coordinates given here and navigating with google maps. I was coming from the south and first tried the shorter route. Dirt roads were fine and easy passable with 2wd, but after passing several gated houses I ran into a locked chain across the road with a no trespassing sign. I backtracked to the main east cape road to try the longer route. This just brought me to a gated community right off the main road with a security guard who would not let me enter. On the first route there were lots of alternate roads, so if you have a bit of time to explore it might be possible to get there, but I couldn’t say for sure. One other note, there were lots of cows on the narrow dirt roads. Sometimes they were blocking the way, but I proceeded very slowly and they seemed to take the hint and eventually moved out of the way.

December 9th, 2023 by gerard.saint

Not too sure how you can get confused getting here. Any osm based offline map will do a pretty good job. The roads to the north are a private housing estate with no entry, follow along and take a left somewhere and aim for the light house. Wouldn’t come here if you don’t want to drive on sand. The palapas have been blown away by the recent hurricane. If you’re in a tent and need protection there are abandoned buildings at the lighthouse but otherwise there’s nothing here that you can’t find else where

March 11th, 2020 by onespaceman

We were very glad we had 4WD and high clearance. There were parts of the road that were totally soft sand. We drove around for over an hour trying to find our way there. We came to one locked gate and then a gated community with a guard. He told us how to go so we started there but then came to a choice point and the one we took didn’t work so we finally gave up. It would be nice if someone does find the way to GPS each spot where there’s a choice point and say which way to go. We’d love to get there.

February 21st, 2020 by brigitta

Not easy to find as there are many tracks going in different directions on the way to the lighthouse but well worth the effort. Beautiful white sand beach, great swimming at incomming tide. We stayed/camped on top by the lighthouse where the ground is firm. The sand at the beach is soft. Very quiet at night, no infrastructure, free.

March 6th, 2019 by outdoorwonderexploring

sandy beach by an abandoned lighthouse with no one around. you'll need 4x4 and to air the tires down to get on the beach, but you can likely get to the lighthouse with only one of these 2. there are 2 palapas, no facilities, just white sand beautiful beach south and a gated fenced community around the bend North. A fish camp 1000m down the beach that we were told you can sometimes buy some fresh fish.