Trails of Tierra del Fuego National Park

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The Tierra del Fuego National Park has many trails that allow you to explore and get to know the different environments of the park. There are paths of different degrees of difficulty and duration:
- Laguna Negra: it is an easy hike that takes about 30 minutes round trip. It starts at National Route 3, passes through peat bogs and ends at a pier over the laguna (like a lake).
- Mirador Lapataia (Lapataia Viewpoint): it is of low difficulty (although with some slope) and takes about 30 minutes one way. It is accessed from Route 3, at the beginning it coincides with the Sendero del Turbal (Turbal Trail) and then they separate. Walking through the forest you reach a viewpoint from where you have a view of Lapataia Bay. From there you can go down and continue to the place where the footbridges of the bay are located.
- Paseo de la Isla: It is an easy walk (with some slope) that takes about 30 minutes one way. It is accessed by National Route 3, metres away from a gendarmerie post inside the national park. Along the way, you will go alongside the Lapataia River, and you will be able to appreciate the excellent views of the body of water and the forest that surrounds it.
- Senda de la Baliza (Baliza Trail): this is a short, almost flat and easy hike. It starts at a section of the footbridges of Lapataia Bay. That is to say, first you have to enter the footbridges from where Route 3 ends, and then the path opens up on the right side. You cross a forest area and finally arrive at a beach where there is a beacon on a rock.
- Senda Hito XXIV (Hito XXIV Trail): this is a medium-difficulty path (for people in good physical condition) that takes about 4 hours round trip. It starts at the end of the beach of Lake Roca or Lake Acigami. It is a wooded trail which goes approximately along the lake, until it reaches the marker (international boundary between Argentina and Chile).
- Sendero Castoreras (Castoreras Trail): this is a short walk that can be accessed from National Route 3, just one kilometre before the end of the road in Lapataia Bay. You walk about 300 metres along a path and arrive at a beaver area, which looks like a small dam of branches that interrupts its water course. When I was there, it was explained to me that this beaver population was inactive (there were no beavers living in it at that time).
- Sendero del Turbal (Turbal Trail): it is of low difficulty. It starts on Route 3, at the beginning it coincides with the one to the Mirador Lapataia (Lapataia Viewpoint) and then they divide. It crosses a forest area and you can observe areas of peat bogs, which is a kind of wetland typical of Tierra del Fuego.