This year, Chile’s Route of Parks will be official thanks to a conservation accord between Tompkins Conservation and the Chilean government, which together donated a total of 11 million acres of Patagonian parkland to be preserved as five new and three extended national parks. The 1,500-mile designated adventure trail will connect a network of 17 national parks — from the Lake District to the Beagle Channel, winding through Patagonia’s primordial forests, snow-capped volcanoes and wild coastline.
Patagonia Park (Spanish: Parque Patagonia) is a private nature reserve operated as a public-access park in the Aysén Region of Chile. The heart of the park is the Chacabuco Valley, a biologically important east-west valley that forms a pass over the Ande Mountains and a transition zone between the Patagonian steppe grasslands of Argentinian Patagonia and the southern beech forests of Chilean Patagonia to the west. Parque Patagonia is between the Lago Jeinimeni National Reserve to the north and the Lago Cochrane National Reserve to the south.
Parque Patagnoia was created by Conservacion Patagonica, a nonprofit incorporated in California and founded in 2000 by Kris Tompkins, to protect Patagonia’s wildlands and ecosystems. Parque Patagonia has an infrastructure of trails, campgrounds, and a visitor center.
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