Porté-Puymorens: Hotels and Accommodation

Porté-Puymorens offers opportunities for hiking, horse riding and cross-country skiing towards the lakes and peaks of the Carlit massif. The town is located in the Parc naturel régional des Pyrénées Catalanes and thus combines winter activities with a distinctive mountain and lake landscape.

For a stay in Porté-Puymorens, finding a hotel may also be part of your plans.

Nature

Porté-Puymorens lies at the entrance to the valley of the Font-vives and Passet lakes, which ends at the Lanoux dam. Nearby is el Punxó, a peak. The surrounding area also includes Puig Pedrós Nord, Pic de Font Negra and Serra de les Xemeneies, each a peak.

Le Chemin des Ingénieurs offers an impressive panorama, passes a lake with a striking dam and, on the return journey, runs through a forest of mountain pines and birches. Le Sentier des Encantades leads through the shade past several streams and along a pond, and is notable for the diversity of its flowers and plants.

The Tour du Carlit GR®P circles the 2,921-metre-high Carlit in three days. The route passes through high mountain passes and high plateaus, as well as pastoral hamlets and traditional huts.

Activities

Tyrovol is located above Lac du Passet and the Carol gorges on the border with Andorra and Spain. The course consists of 12 consecutive zip lines with a total flight distance of almost 2,000 metres. Tyrovol is accessible from a height of 1.10 metres, without any prior sporting experience.

The Le Pied dans le Vide platform in Porté-Puymorens is suspended on a mountainside and offers a 360-degree panorama of the snow-covered peaks of the Trio de la Haute-Cerdagne. At Lac du Passet, activities include horse riding, Free’zbee golf, an aerial adventure course, easy hikes and fishing.

In the wider region around Porté-Puymorens are the Museu Municipal De Llívia, a museum, Sant Vicenç d’Enclar, a historical site, and Parc Infantil, a park.

Other destinations in the same selection: Angoustrine-Villeneuve-Des-Escaldes, Dorres, Osséja, Formiguères, La Llagonne, Puyvalador, Canaveilles, Bolquère.

To the higher-level travel overview: Pyrénées-Orientales.