Ushuaia National Park

The National Park is about 12 km from the city center. This park is a good option to visit for the nature and trekking lovers.

To go i took a combi or charter in the morning (About 10 am) from the city center near the tourist information office. The combis come back from the park to the center at 3 and 5 pm. 
Other transport available and more elegant is the tourist train. The route is the same used in the past for the prisoners that worked in the forest. 

The park have a lots of long paths to visit. Due to this, you would need more than one day to visit all paths. I did a short path because i didn't have much time and took me two hours. The path that i choosed was in Lapataia's Bay and had the following:

1. Walk of the Island
It is about 600 meters and include the Cormoranes Archipelago, coasts, Lapataia and Ovando rivers. 

2. Black Lake
It is about 950 meters and it is a view with a peatland.

3. Lapataia Viewer
It is an outing of 1 km and include a panoramic view of Lapataia Bay.

4. Of Turbal
It is an outing of 2 km and you can see the abandoned burrows of the beavers and the turbal. 

5. Castorera
It is about 200 meters and you can see the devastation caused in the forest by those animals because it not their natural habitat. When the park opened in the middle of the 20th century the rangers inserted that species in a wrong habitat and they caused that ecological disaster. 

6. Path of the beacon
It is about 1500 meters to the path in the limit of the Strinct Natural Reserve near an active burrow of the beavers. 

7. Final of National Route Nº 3

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Otros de los senderos son: 

Senda Pampa Alta
4.9 kms de longitud con una duración aproximada de una hora hasta el punto panorámico. 
Abarca una vista panorámica del Canal de Beagle y del Valle del río Pipo. 

Senda Costera
8 kms de longitud con una duración aproximada de 4 horas.  
Abarca una caminata por la costa marina atravesando bosques de guindo y canelo.

Senda del Hito XXIV
3.5 kms de longitud con una duración aproximada de 1 hora y media. 
Abarca una caminata por el lago Roca hasta el límite internacional Argentina-Chile.

Cerro Guanaco
4 kms de longitud con una duración de 4 horas hasta la cumbre. 
Desde la cima se puede ver la cordillera fueguina y sus turberas.

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