Penalara Natural Park

Glacial lane of Penalara—highly recommended—guadarrama National Park

I highly recommend going to the Guadarrama Parque National. The hike was beautiful. We took the easy hike to the Laguna Glacial de Penalara. The lake itself is just ok and roped off. Dress...

Moderately challenging hike with great scenery

Took the avanza bus 961 from Moncloa Metro Station to Puerto de Cotos but be sure to take the one heading to Valdesqui (the one with the ‘v’ annotated on the bus timetable, which is available on the b...

Top of the Sierra de Guadarrama

The peak of Penalara can be reached via several excelltly marked RV routes. There is plentiful parking at Puerto de Cotos from which most routes start. Views in June on a clear day were amazing.

Awesome hike with great views

We stayed in Madrid and drove to Penalara with public transportation metro-train-train (used google maps). First I would like to advise to always have coins with you. In one of the stations you can bu...

Outstanding views from peak

As others have well described there are multiple route options. From internet you find them in spanish but visit the ranger office for maps over there or just take photo of map outdoors. Routes are ve...