The council invest 900,000 euros to rehabilitate the network of trails in the Teide National Park. Work is already under way to adapt the Roques de García for the transit of people with reduced mobility. The Natural Environment Management area, chaired by the councilor Isabel García, and the National Park Directorate office carry out these works. The restoration of degraded areas and landscape integration in various areas of the protected natural area are works that began last year in which those 900,000 euros will be invested until 2023.
The Teide National Park It has more than 190 kilometers distributed in 41 trails that are traveled by more than 300,000 people each year. Minister García values: “The practice of hiking has increased in recent years and this high influx entails a greater condition, which affects the state of the trails.” We must add her, she adds, “the extreme weather conditions of the park as snow and rain contribute to deterioration.”
The councilor explains that “for all these reasons, we are promoting a rehabilitation and fine-tuning project for these infrastructures.” She even, she underlines, “with adaptation of some to the transit of people with reduced mobility.” The works to be carried out on the network contemplate the delimitation of the traces, the improvement of the pavement and the deteriorated steps, the protection against erosion or the elimination of residues and cement from the environment.
The adaptation of PRM (Persons with Reduced Mobility) sections focuses on the Roques de García path. There the access will be softened at the beginning, stones and earth will be removed from the adapted area, in addition to pruning the vegetation where it has invaded the environment. Without forgetting the construction of delimitation belts in places with runoff, and the improvement of the pavement with earthen pavement in the deteriorated sections or with potholes. The path will even be extended with a 40-meter branch to reach a viewpoint from where the Llano de Ucanca can be seen. The other PRM trails on which the following improvements will be made are those of Roque Caramujo, Alto de Guamaso and El Portillo Botanical Garden.
