Cerro Castillo National Reserve is a large, wild mountainous area with glaciers, lagoons and impressive basalt spires. The crowning glory of the park is the (almost) symmetrical Cerro Castillo (Castle Hill).
The nature reserve is located in Chilean Patagonia and like many attractions in Patagonia, you can do a day hike or a multi-day trek. Either way, you’ll be one of the only few trekkers in this nature reserve.
The way up to the ‘castle’ involves climbing up steep switchbacks, crossing multiple rivers and scrambling over loose rocks, but when you finally reach the glacier lake under the jagged snow-capped tooth turrets, you’ll feel a sense of accomplishment unshared by other tourists.
With few trekking infrastructures and almost no guiding signs, you can’t help to wonder if this was what Patagonia was like before mass tourism hit.
Villa Cerro Castillo is the village where you’ll prepare for your trek.
