Parque Florestal das Queimadas
Santana
- Outdoors
- From 2
- Children free
- Just turn up
A thatched forest house with picnic tables, toilets and laurel woods around it, four kilometres up a narrow road from Santana.
The ground around the Casa das Queimadas is flat and easy, and for a family that is the visit: shaded tables, a restored straw-roofed shelter that is a better building than most of the ones people photograph in Santana, and forest. The PR9 levada to Caldeirão Verde starts here and is a different proposition - a narrow dirt path with tunnels, not somewhere to take a young child. Underfoot it turns muddy for days after rain at this altitude.
Worth knowing: The Queimadas car park is small and fills early; Rancho do Pico das Pedras a short way off is the backup, and the access road up from Santana jams at weekends.
Opening hours
The operator publishes no opening hours. Phone before you drive.
Prices
Free to enter the park and the reception house. PR9 from here is a classified trail: 4.50 € a head from age 13, under-13s free but named on the booking, slot reserved at simplifica.madeira.gov.pt.
Season
Open every day of the year except 25 December and 1 January.
Getting there
Prices and opening times change without notice, and on this island they change often. Everything here carries the date it was checked in our research notes; if a place has moved or closed, tell us and we will fix it.
