Route details:
Signage: white circle GR10, circles of yellow and orange circles.
Length: 12.75 km
Duration: 6 hours
Output: Majavilán
parking Arrival: parking
Majavilán Minimum altitude: 1,305 meters
Maximum altitude: 1,933 meters
Grade Difficulty: Moderate
View hiking trail through the valley of the Fuenfría - Madrid in a larger map
Fuenfría Valley is located in the North Community of Madrid, in the western part Sierra de Guadarrama near the town of Cercedilla, where we can go by local train.
Whether you choose the neighborhood and if we go by car, before arriving at the Parkland Recreation Area, we stopped at the Environmental Education Center Fuenfría Valley to get a brochure with the routes that are in the area.
can also be downloaded from here to give you one of the routes before you go there:
Download map of the paths of Fuenfría Valley (PDF)
The path that I will detail below consists of several sections of several of the routes shown on the map the paths of Fuenfría Valley.
after submitting to the plane, continue to the Berco, and try to park in the above (parking Majavilán).
From here, we started the ascent to the Port of Fuenfría up by the Roman road, marked with white circles , although As you will not miss it.
is the hardest part of the route, because as the principle still catches us we will notice the cold and tired after a while. We must take this into account, since it is a steady climb for about 4 km with a height of 500 meters.
As we progress through pine forests, crossing two bridges, the first is the Barefoot Bridge and near the end of this first part of the route, Enmedio Bridge.
We can take these two points to take a break and regain strength.
After crossing the Bridge of Enmedio, only 1 km we have to get to Puerto de la Fuenfría (1793m).
At this point, we can see that the Roman road continues straight on towards Segovia, and as a monolith of stone would be 599 km to Santiago de Compostela.
Nearby, facing right as we come up, is Windy Hill, just 100 meters from where we are in that direction is a source to recharge the water bottles because they do not find more until the end of the road.
In this high multiple paths converge, and will not be very difficult to see appear more of a cyclist going up the old road of the Republic.
That is precisely the path we will take. As we climbed the Roman road, take the forest path just to the right and walk through it about 1 Km.
A halfway, is the Mirador de la Reina, where we can see the entire valley and the peak Fuenfría Majalasna, that is where we are headed.
A little later the Mirador de la Reina, you will see displayed a stone staircase rising to our left. We left the trail and started climbing the stairs, which are part of the famous Schmidt Road, marked with yellow circles that will lead to Windy hill (1896m).
From here, follow the yellow dots on the mountainside in the Path of the fry for 1.5 km This area, if the snow is dangerous, as is ice almost in its entirety.
The pace of progress in this area is lower because we must walk around large rocks and some of the slopes on the right side are quite steep and we must be careful.
As we walk, we can see on our right hand of the Roman road by which we come up and some stretches of the road to the Republic for which we spent a few minutes ago.
Shortly after we arrived at the meadow Majalasna.
From this point, you can climb to the peak of Majalasna (1933m), access is not easy, because the peak is a pile of boulders, but you can climb up without having to make a great effort.
worth it, because from the top is perfectly succession of peaks of Seven Peaks, Valley of the Fuenfría, and on days of low cloud cover, you can even see the silhouette of Madrid background.
Back Majalasna prairie, we find here a good place to regain strength and leverage to eat in this impressive natural environment before undertaking the second part of the route. So far, we've gone about 6.60 miles in about 3 hours.
From here, no more complicated paths promotions and now have to go down much more extensive forest trails, but also more monotonous.
To begin the descent, again locate the yellow dots and follow them to join again with the Highway of the Republic at the height of the prairie Navarrulaque.
In this clear, we find the sundial Cela, in that placing the body in the correct position on the timetable that is in the ground, casting a shadow that will tell us what time it is.
continue a little further to meet the viewpoints of poets, from where we have a spectacular view of Seven Peaks, Navacerrada port and several nearby towns.
From here until the end of the path, we are guided by the orange circles of trees, which will take us down a path winding through pine forests just getting a bit long and heavy.
After a while of continuous descent, cross a small bridge over a stream and access to the road that will lead us, following it up to the parking where the route began.
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