Parking
Start at Centro de Visitantes de El Portillo beside TF-21. The park lists two marked spaces for authorized vehicles but does not specify general parking capacity.
Overview
About El Portillo–Mirador del Teide Accessible Trail
Why go
- Wide adapted path to a Teide-facing garden lookout
- The route passes a botanical collection representing over 75% of the park’s higher plant species
Heads up
- A brief 0.40-mile out-and-back; you return on the same path
Map & elevation
The route
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Full mapElevation2,059–2,064 m
Plan your hike
Before you go
Parking
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 El Portillo–Mirador del Teide Accessible Trail, 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
El Portillo Visitor Centre and Garden0:00 / 0:35
“El Portillo Visitor Centre is ahead, with a recreated volcanic tunnel inside and a botanical garden next door. Stop if you'd like a closer look at the plants living in this high country without taking on a long hike.”
Plays as you drive up to this trailhead in the Parkwolf Teide Tour Guide.
More stories near here in the app
- Alto de Guamaso and Los Tagorores
- Smyth’s Mountain Experiment
- Portillo Alto and Arenas Negras Viewpoint
- A Bird on Foot
- 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 El Portillo–Mirador del Teide Accessible Trail
A short out-and-backSA PMR 03 is a 320 m one-way garden path from El Portillo Visitor Centre to a Teide-facing…
SA PMR 03 is a 320 m one-way garden path from El Portillo Visitor Centre to a Teide-facing lookout. Turn around there and return the same way for about 0.40 miles total. Teide National Park lists about 25 minutes and low difficulty. This is a brief viewpoint walk, not a climb of Teide.
What the adapted route offersThe park describes the path as fully adapted for people with reduced mobility.
The park describes the path as fully adapted for people with reduced mobility. It gives an average width of 1.5 m and a 5 m turning circle at the far end, with 11 m of cumulative ascent on the published route. It does not detail the surface or break out the gradient along the path; if either matters for your mobility aid, check those specifics with the visitor centre.
The garden and the viewThe route crosses the Wolfredo Wildpret Botanical Garden to its Teide-facing lookout.
The route crosses the Wolfredo Wildpret Botanical Garden to its Teide-facing lookout. From the west end, the view takes in Teide's east face, Montaña Blanca and Pico Cabra, with Risco de La Fortaleza farther back. For a photo, keep the garden's low lava-stone borders in the foreground so the frame shows where you are as well as the mountain.
A botanical collectionThe four-hectare garden is dedicated to Canarian botanist Wolfredo Wildpret de la Torre.
The four-hectare garden is dedicated to Canarian botanist Wolfredo Wildpret de la Torre. It represents more than 75% of Teide National Park's higher plant species and also supports research and conservation work.
Start at El PortilloBegin beside Centro de Visitantes de El Portillo on TF-21.
Begin beside Centro de Visitantes de El Portillo on TF-21. The visitor centre has adapted toilets; the trail access is free and does not require a reservation. The park lists two marked parking spaces for authorized vehicles but does not give general parking capacity.
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.
