How to visit Timanfaya National Park: tickets, tours and hikes

Montañas del Fuego, the Fire Mountains, is the visitor centre inside Timanfaya National Park, run by the Cabildo’s art, culture and tourism centres (CACT). The park protects more than 5,100 hectares of lava and ash left by six years of eruptions between 1730 and 1736, and the centre on the Islote de Hilario is where the general public sees the heart of it.

The general ticket, sold as the Route of the Volcanoes, costs €30 for adults and €15 for children aged 7 to 12, and children up to 6 go free (read on the CACT ticket shop on 15 November 2026, tax included). It covers three things. First, the coach ride along the Ruta de los Volcanes, the 14 km road through the main eruption zone that César Manrique laid out, with a recorded commentary that names the craters as you pass. The CACT gives the ride as about 35 minutes, and its FAQ says a coach leaves every 20 minutes. Second, the geothermal demonstrations on the Islote de Hilario, where staff show how hot the ground still is a few metres down. Third, the viewpoints around the Manrique building that houses El Diablo restaurant and a shop. Parking and Wi-Fi on the islote are free.

The CACT’s own estimate for the visit is about 1 hour 15 minutes. Lunch at El Diablo and the camel rides at the Echadero cost extra.

For a smaller group, the CACT also sells the Insólita Experience at €59.90: a two-hour guided visit starting at 8:45 on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays, with a stop and short climb at Montaña Rajada, a visit to the Tinecheide refuge and a final tasting of local produce and Lanzarote wine, all places the general ticket does not reach.

With a hire car, Timanfaya is an easy half day. The ticket checkpoint at El Taro sits on the main road between Yaiza and Tinajo, and OpenStreetMap routing puts it about 23 minutes from Playa Blanca, 25 from Puerto del Carmen, 32 from Arrecife and 39 from Costa Teguise. From El Taro you drive on to the car park on the Islote de Hilario, staying in the car on the way. Nobody explores the national park freely by car or on foot, so the coach is part of every visit, whichever way you arrive.

A tour takes the slot, the driving and the parking off your hands. Two on this site include the park. The Lanzarote full-day island highlights tour, from €51 and rated 4.7 out of 5 by 3,436 GetYourGuide reviewers, adds Cueva de los Verdes, Jameos del Agua, Haría and a La Geria tasting in nine hours; its cheapest option has no entry tickets, so pick a ticketed version. The Timanfaya National Park and La Geria half-day tour, from €63 and rated 4.5 by 801 reviewers, has park entry built in, an official guide and a wine tasting, and takes about 5.5 hours. Both collect from Playa Blanca, Puerto del Carmen, Costa Teguise and Arrecife, and both cancel free up to 24 hours before.

That last point is the real difference. The CACT ticket is valid only for its date and time and cannot be changed or refunded, so a change of plan costs you the ticket. A tour booked on GetYourGuide refunds in full up to a day ahead.

Montañas del Fuego opens every day of the year, with entry slots from 9:00 to 15:45. There are no ticket sales at the gate: Timanfaya and Cueva de los Verdes are the two CACT centres that sell only online, for a set date and time, and once a slot reaches its quota it drops off the calendar.

The timed slots are what keep the wait short. Arrive at the El Taro ticket office 15 minutes before your time to scan the QR code. The CACT points out there is nowhere to wait if you come early, and entry is not guaranteed once your time has passed. Download the ticket or screenshot the QR code before you set off.

An early slot leaves the afternoon free for La Geria or the beach and puts you at El Diablo before lunchtime, which matters because it takes no reservations. From October to April the CACT advises warm clothes, since the islote is windy; from June to September bring a cap and sun cream. The Route of the Volcanoes uses adapted coaches, pets are not allowed except assistance dogs, and pushchairs are hard going on site, so a baby carrier is easier. For the year’s temperatures and wind, see our guide to Lanzarote’s weather by month.

El Diablo is the restaurant Manrique designed on the Islote de Hilario, with a circular glass wall looking over the lava field and counters shaped like the stone vine shelters of La Geria. The grill sits over a well five metres deep where the earth reaches about 250 degrees, and meat and vegetables are cooked on that heat. Tables go on a first come, first served basis, with no reservations.

The menu read on 15 November 2026 lists half a chicken at €21, a pork and chicken skewer at €20, entrecôte at €26 and grilled wreckfish at €24.50, with Canarian potatoes and mojo at €7.50 to start. A glass of Lanzarote DO wine is €6, bottles of island Malvasía start at €30, and the dessert the CACT calls the most symbolic on the menu, the Lanzarote Volcano chocolate sponge with bienmesabe, is €8. The children’s menu has breaded chicken at €9 and spaghetti at €7, and there are high chairs.

The camel rides start at the Echadero de los Camellos, at km 16 on the main road through the park, south of the El Taro checkpoint, so they need no Montañas del Fuego ticket. Dromedaries carry riders on a short circuit of about 250 metres up the southern slope of Montaña de Timanfaya, a ride of about 20 minutes that the national park describes as a calm way to see the volcanic landscape. There is no booking, and a photographer sells pictures of your ride at the end.

The national park’s route page gives ride times of 9:30 to 15:30. The Echadero also has a café, a souvenir shop and a small museum and information point, which closes on Sundays. The rides are run by Yaiza town council rather than the CACT and are paid on the spot. The latest fare we could find published is €11 per person, set by a 2022 increase reported by the regional broadcaster RTVC and no current fare is published on an official page. The full-day island highlights tour stops for an optional ride at extra cost, so you can add it on the day.

Inside the national park, walking is allowed only with a guide. The park runs the Ruta de Tremesana free of charge: a 3.5 km linear walk of about three hours including transfers, low in difficulty, meeting in the Plaza de los Remedios in Yaiza 15 minutes before the start. It runs five days a week, in Spanish and English, for walkers over 16. Groups are small, so the park asks you to book on the national parks' reservation site at least a month ahead (the route page says 25 to 30 days). On the way the guide points out jameos, where lava tube roofs have collapsed, a lava lake in the crater of Montaña Hernández and lava drips inside a volcanic tube.

If Tremesana is full, or you want more distance, two bookable hikes on this site cross Los Volcanes Natural Park, the protected eruption landscape next to the national park. The Timanfaya lava hike from Geotrekking Lanzarote covers about 9 km in three hours at a relaxed pace, in groups of up to 10: rated 4.8 by 1,588 reviewers, from €44. The volcano summit hike from Blackstone Treks & Tours climbs to a crater rim and crosses a lava field in 3.5 to 4 hours, in groups of up to 8: rated 4.9 by 959 reviewers, from €42, and the harder of the two. Both have hotel pick-up options, both cancel free up to 24 hours before, and both need closed shoes.

A hike and the coach route work as a pair rather than a choice. The coach shows the core of the eruption that nobody may walk, and the hike puts you on the lava itself. Our Things to do in Lanzarote page lists the island’s other volcano trips, including a buggy tour to Peñas del Chache.

La Geria, the wine country on the inland road from Yaiza towards the centre of the island, starts a few minutes from the park. Its vines grow in hollows dug into the volcanic ash, each sheltered from the wind by a low semicircular stone wall, and those are the shapes El Diablo’s counters copy. It is the natural second half of a Timanfaya day.

Two tastings on this site are a short drive from the park. El Grifo, whose old winery from 1775 is the oldest of its kind in the Canary Islands, runs a two-hour visit to its wine museum with six wines and island cheeses, led by the head sommelier: rated 4.9 by 378 reviewers, from €50, adults only, in groups of up to 10. Finca Testeina, the Vega de Yuco estate below the Testeina volcano, offers a 1.5-hour vineyard walk with two organic wines paired with chocolate: rated 4.8 by 506 reviewers, from €24.

Neither includes transport, so one of you drives and skips the wine, or you let the half-day Timanfaya and La Geria tour do the driving, since it includes a tasting stop of about 20 minutes. For drivers, a good order is an early Montañas del Fuego slot, lunch at El Diablo, then an afternoon tasting.

Every price below was read on 15 November 2026: on the CACT ticket shop and El Diablo menu for the park, and on GetYourGuide for the tours, where the calendar shows the live price for your date. Car hire and fuel are left out because they depend on your booking.

The cheapest complete visit is two self-drive tickets at €60. Add lunch at El Diablo and the day comes to about €143 for two; add the Finca Testeina tasting instead and it is €108. For a couple without a car, the half-day tour at €126 covers entry, transport, a guide and a tasting. Walkers can do Tremesana for nothing, or a guided hike for €84 to €88 for two, and fit the coach route in on another day.

The closest beds to the park are in Yaiza and the La Geria wine villages, and staying there turns an early slot into a short drive. These are small rural and boutique hotels from our rural and boutique hotels list, and the main button at the top leads to the full set.

Casa de Hilario sits high in Yaiza with views over the national park, and La Casona de Yaiza is a restored country house from around 1825 in the same village; Yaiza is about 11 minutes by road from the El Taro checkpoint. For wine, El Grifo Hotel is the 12-room manor of the El Grifo winery family at Mozaga, about 22 minutes from the checkpoint, and Hotel Rural Finca de la Florida sits among its own vineyards. César Lanzarote at La Asomada and Finca Isolina at Mácher are on the slopes above Puerto del Carmen, between La Geria and the coast.

Expedia’s lowest average nightly rates for two, read on 15 November 2026 for seven nights from 11 May 2027, start at £101 at La Casona de Yaiza, £106 at Casa de Hilario and £138 at El Grifo Hotel. If you would rather be by the sea, Playa Blanca and Puerto del Carmen are both about 25 minutes from the checkpoint, and our guide to where to stay in Lanzarote compares the resorts.