Natural Park of Redes

Latitude: 43.1996689 Length: -5.4231262
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The Redes Natural Park has held this environmental mention since 1996. A few years later, in 2001, it was awarded the no less prestigious recognition of Biosphere Reserve. Its impressive groves, its virgin nature, and the priceless manipulation of the environment by the men and women who inhabit it, well deserve an award as well as the administrative and material means to continue protecting a habitat of so many excellences. Its surface is 376,2 Km2. It is characterized for having an orography of medium and high mountain; dominated by limestone rock, the Atlantic forest, meadows and grasslands in the bottoms of the valleys. The minimum level of the Park is 400m. above sea level and the maximum is in the Picu Torres with 2.104 meters.

The mountainous and abrupt terrain explains that almost 80% of its surface is located above the 800 m. and more than 80% have more than the 30% slope. These characteristics ensure a natural environment barely modified by the hand of man, with beauty and natural resources almost intact.

To the charm of nature is added a rural universe of its own. The villages have a special shine and the Casina cows graze freely. One of the most ancient cheeses of the peninsula is made from their raw milk: Casin cheese -a dairy product that also has a Protected Designation of Origin.

Villages of the Redes Natural Park

We are going to take a short trip through some of the towns, scattered among deep valleys and imposing…

Casin Cheese

The Casín Cheese is one of the jewels of the Asturian dairy products. Elaborated in the case council, in it …

Hiking in the Redes Natural Park

In the Park the Nalón River is born in the foothills of the Port of Tarna, historic pass between the plateau and the Asturian lands. In this area of ​​the park we can take a magnificent and affordable excursion to the Vega de Pociellu. Before reaching it we will encounter more landscape rewards along the way: such as the Ablanosa sheepfold, with its small cabins bordering the foliage, or the itself Fabucao beech forest that we must go through to reach our destination.

Route to Vega Pociellu

The great “Vega de Pociellu” countryside is a mountainous, livestock-raising and pure territory. And it is also the goal of a…

Speaking of cattle brañas, an obligatory excursion is to ascend to Brañagallons, which means braña of the gallones (the roosters or grouse), which once had up to six cantaderos (exhibition places for the males) in this area. Large beech forests nearby, a quiet, peaceful place to enjoy nature.

Route to Brañagallones

La Vega de Brañagallones is a chimerical place, a dream landscape of glacial origin in the heart of the Park…

The environmental richness of the park is manifested in a multitude of landscapes and contrasts below summits as emblematic as the Retriñón, Cuetu Negru, the Peña'l Vientu, Cantu l'Osu, the Rapainal or, on the bordering Ponga mountain range,  the Tiatordos , one of the signature mountains of Asturias, known not in vain as "the perfect mountain."

Natural Park of Redes

One of the most exceptional reserves in terms of nature and ethnography in the entire Principality of…

In addition to mountains and brañas, in the heights you can also see karst forms in caves and lava flows and formations of glacial origin such as the magnificent place of the Lake Ubales.

Ubales Lake Route

Lake Ubales, of glacial origin, is located at 1.690 m. of altitude at the foot of Cascayón Peak. A …

Redes has a wooded area of ​​40% of the territory. The beech forest is the predominant forest in the mountains of Redes, although important areas of oak forests should also be highlighted. In such a green environment, the action of the rivers has given rise to the appearance of open valleys that form large plains in their bottoms,  impressive limestone rocky gorges, like the one that configures the dawn route or the Arrudos, or waterfalls everywhere like the Tabayón waterfall..

Route of the Alba

It seems more like the title of a collection of poems but it is a real walk. The Alba route is one of…

Desfiladero de los Arrudos

The Arrudos gorge is one of the great river canyons of Asturias and one of the most…

Route to the Tabayón waterfall

To reach this waterfall in the middle of the mountain you just have to put on good footwear that grips well...

As a passageway to the plateau, in Redes there is a good sample of ancient paths, such as the Roman road of Camín Real del Sellón, extension of the Camín Real de Tarna.

Camino Real del Sellón

The historians locate the origin of the Camín Real del Sellón as an extension of the Camín Real de ...

The hiking options are practically unlimited, but we can also enjoy more comfortable excursions, accessing the vicinity of the Tanes reservoir by car and resting in the recreational area of ​​the Cave Devoyu, For example. It is also an ideal enclave to enjoy the deer bellowing.

Berrea in Asturias

The bellowing of the deer It is undoubtedly one of the greatest spectacles of Asturian nature. A …

Through the Park of Networks all the characteristic species of the north of the peninsula pass through. The grizzly, the wolf, with stable breeding areas. One of the largest populations of chamois region of. The fascinating capercaillie, Egyptian vultures, royal eagles and endless birds, reptiles and amphibians benefit from the good state of conservation of the park.

The best thing to know all the landscape alternatives is to approach the Park Interpretation Center located in the capital of the council of Caso, Campo de Caso.

Other possibilities go through the cultural and ethnographic knowledge of the man who inhabits this environment. The Museum of Wood in Veneros, as well as the Workshop of La Madreña in Pendones, are two magnificent options to enjoy more if possible of our visit.

Wood and Madreña Museum

The Case Wood Museum combines the environmental relevance of this Park Nature Reserve ...

not lacking places to stay and eat with all the guarantees. In Case the famous Casin cheese that will leave on our palate a taste of mouth comparable to the pleasant sensory stimulus that the landscape provides to our eyes.