Parking
Start at Montaña Blanca Viewpoint on TF-21 at km 40.2. Parking is limited, and no overflow area is identified.
Overview
About Alto de Montaña Blanca
Why go
- A short summit circuit ends at 2,740 m with wide caldera views.
- Giant Huevos del Teide make the pumice approach unusually distinctive.
Heads up
- The 0.9-mile summit branch comes after a 2.8-mile approach.
- Parking is limited, and the branch access pages give conflicting reservation instructions.
Map & elevation
The route
Loading the Teide map
Full mapElevation2,348–2,735 m
Plan your hike
Before you go
Parking
Safety
3 active Teide alerts
- CautionActive wildfire risk and preventive measuresTenerife ON currently lists wildfire risk and preventive wildfire measures; check the live restrictions before visiting Teide National Park.Official details
- CautionNo smoking in Teide National ParkSmoking is prohibited throughout Teide National Park as a preventive measure against forest fires.Official details
The highest, rockiest slopes around here are a summer buffet for grizzly bears.
Teide Tour Guide
Your drive to Alto de Montaña Blanca, narrated.
Parkwolf is a GPS audio tour guide for Teide National Park. As you drive, it chimes in with what’s ahead: hidden gems, upcoming stops, history, geology, and wildlife, right through your car’s speakers.
Recorded for this trailhead
Montaña Blanca and the Climb to La Rambleta0:00 / 0:31
“You're approaching the Montaña Blanca trailhead, the start of a demanding climb to La Rambleta. The full ascent takes about six hours one way and gains thirteen hundred metres, finishing below Teide's summit.”
Plays as you drive up to this trailhead in the Parkwolf Teide Tour Guide.
More stories near here in the app
- Tabonal Negro Viewpoint
- Minas de San José
- Teide Cable Car and La Rambleta
- Majúa and the Sanatorio Trail
- 39 audio storiesacross Teide’s roads, triggered by GPS as you drive
- Wildlife heatmapsfor Short-finned Pilot Whale, Tenerife Lizard, West Canary Skink, and 10 more
- Works offlinemaps, 62 trails, 49 places, and audio download before you lose signal
- CarPlay readysimple controls built for the drive
“Fantastic app with many points of information… It’s great to just turn on while you’re driving and it gives you an audio tour of the national Park. We love it!!!!”
Trail guide
Hiking Alto de Montaña Blanca
The whole walk to the high pointAlto de Montaña Blanca is a 6.6-mile out-and-back from Montaña Blanca Viewpoint on TF-21.
Alto de Montaña Blanca is a 6.6-mile out-and-back from Montaña Blanca Viewpoint on TF-21. Follow PNT 07 for about 2.8 miles to the junction, walk the 0.9-mile PNT 07.1 summit circuit, then return on PNT 07. Allow about four to five hours. The 820 m figure you may see is for the short branch; the full walk includes the long approach from the road.
The climb to the junctionThe route starts at about 2,350 m and climbs roughly 370 m over the lower PNT 07 approach.
The route starts at about 2,350 m and climbs roughly 370 m over the lower PNT 07 approach. The path crosses pale pumice country, where the giant rounded Huevos del Teide stand out against the volcanic slope. They are accretion balls: fragments of ejected magma that rolled downhill and settled at the volcano’s base.
A small summit circuitPNT 07.
PNT 07.1 returns to its junction after circling to the front of Montaña Blanca, topping out around 2,740 m. The payoff is a broad look across Teide National Park, the southern side of Tenerife and the wall of Las Cañadas. For a photo, keep some of the pale summit in the foreground so the caldera rim has scale.
Permits and high-altitude conditionsThis is a high-mountain walk on loose, uneven ground, and conditions can change quickly.
This is a high-mountain walk on loose, uneven ground, and conditions can change quickly. Reaching PNT 07.1 from the road means walking PNT 07 to a booking checkpoint at the junction. The PNT 07 route requires an advance reservation and specific mountain equipment, while the PNT 07.1 page lists free access without a reservation. Confirm which rule applies to this itinerary before setting out. The published equipment list includes mountain footwear, long trousers, warm layers, a thermal blanket, hat and gloves, water, a charged phone and a headtorch.
Wildlife
Wildlife in Teide
15 sightingsShort-finned Pilot WhaleMost seen around 9 AMSighting map
829 sightingsTenerife LizardMost seen around 11 AMSighting map
11 sightingsWest Canary SkinkMost seen around 11 AMSighting map
98 sightingsTenerife Blue ChaffinchMost seen around 8 AMSighting map
45 sightingsKestrelMost seen around 10 AMSighting map
10 sightingsBarbary PartridgeMost seen around 7 AMSighting mapSighting maps show where each species has been reported across Teide. Wildlife moves, so no sighting is guaranteed.
