Excursions and Routes in Benasque
Get to know the best routes in Benasque to enjoy nature, travelling around the area. For all levels and according to capacity, get ready for fantastic routes in Benasque.
Nature trails to melt into the heart of the fantastic nature of the Aragonese Pyrenees.
Excursion to the Forau d'Aigualluts
- Altitude: 2.090m
- Difficulty: Easy
- Round trip time: 2h
- Level difference: 200m
- Start : La Besurta
- Suitable for children
- Activity: Hiking
The walk is barely an hour and a half long in total, essential for anyone travelling to the Benasque Valley for the first time. It is probably the most visited place in this valley. To start the route we have to reach the refuge of the besurta. From Benasque we must continue along the A-139 road towards Llanos del Hospital.
Botanical Path - Gorgas de Alba
- Altitude: 1.670m
- Difficulty: Easy
- Round trip time: 1h
- Level difference: 130m
- Start: Hotel Turpi
- Suitable for children
- Activity: Hiking
Simple and entertaining circular tour of approximately 1 hour in which we will walk along an interpretative botanical path with identification panels of different species of trees and bushes, passing through a small beech forest until we reach the waterfalls that form the Esera River known as “Gorgas del Alba” and can contemplate them from different viewpoints.
Circular Route Three Cascades of Ardoné
- Altitude: 1.800m
- Difficulty: Easy
- Round trip time: 2h y 30m
- Level difference: 330m
- Start: Cerler
- Suitable for children
- Activity: Hiking
The Ardonés waterfall, also known as the Bom waterfall, is one of the most beautiful corners in the Cerler area. Its proximity, easy access and beauty make this place a practically obligatory stop for all those who visit this area.
Excursion to the Old Cerler Mine
- Altitude: 1.700m
- Difficulty: Easy
- Round trip time: 2h
- Level difference: 150m
- Start: Cerler
- Suitable for children
- Activity: Hiking
In Cerler there was pyrite exploitation, today only remains of the house of the “chiefs” and the holes from where this mineral was extracted. The end of this excursion is decided by each one of us, since it is a panoramic excursion in which we gain little height and allow us to have some beautiful views of the valley.
Excursion through Valle de Estós
- Altitude: 1.870m
- Difficulty: Medium
- Round trip time: 4h
- Level difference: 569m
- Start: Aparcamiento Valle Estós
- Activity: Hiking
This valley has a great tourist attraction for lovers of mountain hiking, climbing, ski mountaineering and mountaineering. Fishing for trout and big game (sarrios, roe deer and wild boar) is also practiced here. In the summertime its slopes are a place for a large herd of cows to graze.
Route to Ibonet de Batisielles and Ibón de Escarpinosa
- Altitude: 2.020m
- Difficulty: Medium
- Round trip time: 5h
- Level difference: 700m
- Start: Aparcamiento Valle Estós
- Activity: Hiking
A beautiful route, along a path next to the river, then along an enchanted path to end up contemplating one of the most beautiful lakes in the area.
Excursion of the Three Ravines
- Altitude: 1.400m
- Difficulty: Medium
- Round trip time: 1h y 30m
- Level difference: 268m
- Start: Benasque
- Suitable for children
- Activity: Hiking
A quiet route that will take us around Benasque through three ravines.
Route to the Gorgutes and Solana de Gorgutes lakes
- Altitude: 1.400m
- Difficulty: Medium
- Round trip time: 1h y 30m
- Level difference: 268m
- Start: Benasque
- Suitable for children
- Activity: Hiking
A pleasant excursion, suitable for all ages, that in a high mountain environment will make us walk through one of the old commercial passages that linked the Valley of Benasque with the neighbouring French valley of Luchon.
Circular Route through the Conques Forest
- Altitude: 1.100m
- Difficulty: Easy
- Round trip time: 2h
- Level difference: 140m
- Start: Eriste
- Suitable for children
- Actividad: Senderismo
It is a long circular route that crosses one of the most exuberant forests of the Benasque Valley, the Conques Forest.
Route through the Ibones de Barbarisa
- Altitude: 2.350m
- Difficulty: High
- Round trip time: 7h
- Level difference: 1200m
- Start: Sahún
- Activity: Mountaineering
A beautiful route, to enjoy green meadows, flowers, lots of water and two lakes.
Excursion to Vallibierna Valley
- Altitude: 2.000m
- Difficulty: Low
- Round trip time: 5h
- Level difference: 1.000m
- Start: Plan de Senarta
- Activity: Mountaineering
This valley, oriented from east to west, is approximately 9 km long and at the bottom of it the waters of the Vallivierna River, a tributary of the Ésera River, flow”. On the slopes of the valley, black pine and beech forests predominate.
