Plantilla:Access ski center villarrica

Access

By car

Starting point is the ski center. From Pucón, head towards Villarrica until you reach a well-marked fork at km 1. The road to the volcano is paved in its first steps and then it is made on a wide gravel road in [state of the way | good condition]. In km 9 there is the entrance to the National Park with the control CONAF. Soon after, you have to turn to the right and start climbing zigzagging in wide curves. At km 15 the first cableway arrives, called "Juncalillo", and finally, when leaving the forest, the road ends at the parking lot of the ski center (km 17). From Pucón it is about 30 minutes of travel in own vehicle.

In public transport and hitchhiking

There are no buses to cross the ski center, but throughout the year there is significant traffic, even more in winter, and there are many possibilities for automatic access, stopping at the corner of the road to the volcano with the main route connecting Pucón with Villarrica.

During the summer there are tourism companies that offer tours a year Volcán Villarrica. They go up in the morning and leave the tourists at the ski center and then pick them up again in the afternoon. The early risers can take the morning bus at the tourist's price, but if they look for it, it is possible to go up in the afternoon and negotiate the price of that bus, the tourist companies must go up in all the ways to the tourists, and so general upload with the empty bus.