Presa del Fresnillo Circular, Grazalema (Cadiz)
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 3.06 mi
- Elevation gain
- 610 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 610 ft
- Max elevation
- 3,399 ft
- TrailRank
-
48
4.7
- Min elevation
- 2,779 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Moving time
- one hour 13 minutes
- Time
- one hour 41 minutes
- Coordinates
- 873
- Uploaded
- October 31, 2022
- Recorded
- October 2022
near Grazalema, Andalucía (España)
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31 10 2022
Presa Fresnillo Circuit, Grazalema
This walk which goes up and around the Grazalema dam starts on the outskirts of Grazalema pueblo, adjacent to the Pabellon Polideportivo Municipal, where there is plenty of parking.
Taking the back road and making your way to the bridge Puente de la Asamblea, which is where the trail starts. The trail goes gently upto the dam wall where enroute you get panoramic view of Grazalema and the iconic Peñón Grande.
From here you have to scale some rocks to get to the top. This is supposedly a restricted area but I saw six other hikers around the reservoir. As you go around the reservoir to your left there is a gate half way down, but you can go around it easily to the left of it.
Circling the reservoir you pick up a thin path on the otherside and when it curves you have an uphill section for 10 minutes. Then it’s downhill to the main road A372.
From here one of the old trails was damaged by road works, so I had a little section of main road before picking up a path down to Calle Nueva, then onto Plaza de España, and finally the last leg on Plaza Pequeña of the A372 which will bring you back to the start.
Presa Fresnillo Circuit, Grazalema
This walk which goes up and around the Grazalema dam starts on the outskirts of Grazalema pueblo, adjacent to the Pabellon Polideportivo Municipal, where there is plenty of parking.
Taking the back road and making your way to the bridge Puente de la Asamblea, which is where the trail starts. The trail goes gently upto the dam wall where enroute you get panoramic view of Grazalema and the iconic Peñón Grande.
From here you have to scale some rocks to get to the top. This is supposedly a restricted area but I saw six other hikers around the reservoir. As you go around the reservoir to your left there is a gate half way down, but you can go around it easily to the left of it.
Circling the reservoir you pick up a thin path on the otherside and when it curves you have an uphill section for 10 minutes. Then it’s downhill to the main road A372.
From here one of the old trails was damaged by road works, so I had a little section of main road before picking up a path down to Calle Nueva, then onto Plaza de España, and finally the last leg on Plaza Pequeña of the A372 which will bring you back to the start.
Waypoints
Car park
2,907 ft
Intersection
Fountain
Panorama
Waypoint
Information point
Photo
Religious site
Monument
River
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