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Pico de las Nieves summit – View of Roque Nublo and Teide loop from Pico de las Nieves

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Pico de las Nieves summit – View of Roque Nublo and Teide loop from Pico de las Nieves

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Pico de las Nieves summit – View of Roque Nublo and Teide loop from Pico de las Nieves

04:10

13.4km

500m

Hiking

Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: April 22, 2026

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Hoya del Gamonal

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48 m

Pico de las Nieves summit

Highlight • Summit

With its height of 1949 meters, the Pico de las Nieves is the highest point of Gran Canaria. And as a racing cyclist, you can not help but climb it. On the one hand, this is simply part of a racing bike holiday on the island, on the other hand, due to the conical shape of the island, all roads lead to Pico de las Nieves anyway.

Sometimes there is even snow up here, so the summit has its name. Very often it is definitely quite fresh here, pack the windbreaker. Often it is also very cloudy. If you're lucky, the cloud cover is below you, making the view even more spectacular. But it also happens that you are standing up here in a gray cloud soup.

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Radar Station at Pico de las Nieves

Highlight • Monument

The entire area of the Pico de Las Nieves is owned by the Spanish Army (Fuerzas Armadas de España), so there are many radar and telecommunications systems.

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365 m

View of Roque Nublo and Teide

Highlight • Viewpoint

Roque Nublo is the remains of a once much higher stratovolcano. The formation of this volcano began about 4.2 to 4.6 mya with thick mafic lava flows that overlaid the eroded remains of an earlier Miocene volcano and extended up to 20 km to the coast. The eruptions continued for about 1.5 million years, with the rock produced progressively changing to trachyte and phonolite about 3.9 mya. The now more explosive eruptions in the summit area produced breccia-like ignimbrite deposits until the eruptions ended about 3 mya due to the intrusion of phonolithic vent plugs. The total volume of the volcano complex is estimated at 200 km³, the height of the volcano was at least 2500 m, but possibly well over 3000 m. Since then the volcano has been subject to severe erosion. Rock deposits from huge landslides can be found up to 25 km away. The summit rock of Roque Nublo, a former plug of a volcanic vent, was subject to erosion to a lesser extent than the softer surrounding rock due to its harder basalt breccia and was thus preserved as a hardened rock.
Source: de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roque_Nublo

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View of San Bartolomé de Tirajana and Santa Lucía

Highlight • Viewpoint

3.30 km

Degollada de Bermeja

Mountain Pass

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Cruz del Socorro

Highlight • Monument

Numerous hiking trails meet here that connect different highlights and lead in different directions (and parts of the island).

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6.76 km

Caldera de los Marteles

Highlight • Volcano

Even when the clouds hang low, the tour is fun. There's something mythical about it ☺️

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7.50 km

Caldera de los Marteles

Highlight • Volcano

The floor of the caldera. It is quiet. Watch out for the wild birds and the countless woodpeckers. It is best to wear hiking boots for the descent.

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9.66 km

Cañada Martín

Mountain Pass

12.5 km

Hoya del Gamonal Ice Pit

Highlight • Monument

The pit used to be used to collect ice and preserve it for the summer. The ice cream was brought to Las Palmas with donkeys

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13.4 km

End point

Parking

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

5.63 km

4.53 km

3.20 km

Surfaces

4.10 km

3.20 km

2.97 km

1.84 km

941 m

302 m

Elevation

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Highest point (1,920 m)

Lowest point (1,500 m)

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Saturday 11 July

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Pico de las Nieves summit – View of Roque Nublo and Teide loop from Pico de las Nieves

Pico de las Nieves summit

Radar Station at Pico de las Nieves

View of Roque Nublo and Teide

View of San Bartolomé de Tirajana and Santa Lucía

Cruz del Socorro

Caldera de los Marteles

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