Las Nieves
4528 ft
8.7 mi
7 hrs
10827 ft
Las Nieves
Sierra de Arteaga, Arteaga
4528 ft
8.7 mi
7 hrs
10827 ft
Ascent to Cerro de las Nieves in Arteaga. Enjoy this tour in winter or when the weather is cool.
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Long sleeve t-shirt, hiking pants, buffs, sunglasses, hat or cap, boots or sneakers with soles for hiking.
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The tour begins at the ranch known as “Daniel García Najera” located in the municipality of Arteaga, Coahuila, approximately an hour and a half's drive from the city of Monterrey. You can travel along the road to Saltillo and then the Carbonera road where you must pay a road fee of $200 pesos between the two more or less, although there is the option of navigating the free road, which is also very safe for free. Once you arrive at the property where you leave the vehicles, there is parking at a cost of $100 per vehicle.
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Parking is inside the “Sal Si Puedes” ranch and costs $100 pesos per vehicle. It is a busy, safe area adjacent to the main road.
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Only the cost of parking and if you take the toll road, it would be 44 extra pesos on the Carbonera highway and 130 on the Monterrey highway to Saltillo.
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The visibility and layout of the route reach optimal conditions, offering a fairly detailed overview of where the sidewalk runs, however, on sections of the route there are alternative roads, often created by some animals or local people, so it is advisable to always be aware of the Wikiloc.
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According to our nomenclature, this route is classified with a physical difficulty of 6, which means that you would be climbing between 1200 meters and 1400 meters in altitude, traveling most of the time with a considerable inclination, a height that could cause the onset of altitude sickness and under challenging solar conditions.
