Teide National Park
Canary Islands, Spain
Teide is the volcano at the centre of Tenerife and the most visited national park in Spain, and it is reached from…
48 tickets & tours
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Best national parks in Spain
10 national parks in Spain, ranked by why it makes the list from the catalogue data. Each page tells you what to see, which tour or ticket to book and when to go.
| # | Park | Country | Why it makes the list |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Teide National Park | Spain | Book the summit permit months ahead; the caldera alone is worth the trip. |
| 2 | Picos de Europa National Park | Spain | The Cares gorge, Fuente De and the lakes of Covadonga. |
| 3 | Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park | Spain | The great Pyrenean canyon, walked to the Cola de Caballo falls. |
| 4 | Timanfaya National Park | Spain | Lanzarote's Fire Mountains, by the park coach across raw lava. |
| 5 | Doñana National Park | Spain | Marshes, dunes and lynx country, on an authorised 4x4 tour. |
| 6 | Aiguestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici National Park | Spain | Two hundred Pyrenean lakes, entered by park taxi from Boi or Espot. |
| 7 | Garajonay National Park | Spain | A laurel forest from the age before the ice, on La Gomera. |
| 8 | Caldera de Taburiente National Park | Spain | La Palma's giant crater, from Los Brecitos down the Angustias ravine. |
| 9 | Montserrat Natural Park | Spain | The serrated mountain and its monastery, by rack railway from Barcelona. |
| 10 | Sierra de Guadarrama National Park | Spain | Madrid's mountains: Penalara, granite tors and Scots pine forest. |
Picos de Europa National Park
Asturias, Spain
The Picos de Europa are a compact block of limestone peaks twenty kilometres from the Bay of Biscay, shared by…
8 tickets & tours
Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park
Aragon, Spain
Ordesa y Monte Perdido lies in the central Pyrenees, in the province of Huesca in Aragon, in the north of Spain,…
4 tickets & tours
Timanfaya National Park
Canary Islands, Spain
Timanfaya is the lava field of south-western Lanzarote, half an hour from the island's resorts, and it is a park…
13 tickets & tours
Doñana National Park
Andalusia, Spain
Doñana is the delta of the Guadalquivir on the Atlantic coast of Andalusia, an hour from Seville, and the core of the…
10 tickets & tours
Aiguestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici National Park
Catalonia, Spain
Aiguestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici, the only national park in Catalonia, lies in the highest part of the central…
No online ticket
Garajonay National Park
Canary Islands, Spain
Garajonay occupies the summit plateau of La Gomera, the small, round, deeply ravined island that lies within sight of…
1 ticket or tour
Caldera de Taburiente National Park
Canary Islands, Spain
The Caldera de Taburiente is an enormous, pine-clad crater-like depression that occupies the centre of the northern…
1 ticket or tour
Montserrat Natural Park
Catalonia, Spain
Montserrat is the serrated mountain an hour north-west of Barcelona with the Benedictine abbey on its flank, and the…
14 tickets & tours
Sierra de Guadarrama National Park
Madrid, Spain
The Sierra de Guadarrama is the wall of granite mountains on the northern horizon of Madrid, an hour from the city, the…
7 tickets & tours