Puerto de Arnicio (La Marea)

Start Town	Altitude	Elevation Gain	Length	Gradient	Difficulty	Rating
La Marea	916m	588m	9.4 km	6.2%	433	***

Climb Description

Puerto Arnicio is a quiet and relative unknown climb. The climb really begins 15km earlier from the town of Infiesto; however, the first part is so gentle that it seems wrong to include it in the overall statistics. It is fairly picturesque, but is mostly in forest until it all spectacularly opens up at the top of the pass.

The road is fantastically quiet and we recommend climbing it if you are in the area, but the road surface is annoying on the descent and reduces the overall rating to ***.

Puerto de Arnicio usually open year-round; however, short-term closures due to snow are possible during the winter.

Roads & Traffic

The road is in quite poor condition. It doesn't have many pot-holes, but the surface is very rough bumpy - something which is particularly noticeable when descending either side.

There is very little traffic on this climb.

Alternative Routes

Puerto de Arnicio can also be approached from the south, starting in Campo de Caso. It is quite rolling from this side with stretches of downhill and flatter periods, making it difficult to really categorize it as a climb. The surface is equally rough on this side.

Nearby Climbs

Puerto de Ponton

Collada Llomena

Mirador del Fito

Puerto de Tarna

Lagos de Covadonga

Cycling Holidays

The climb to Puerto de Arnicio is an optional route extension on our Picos de Europa & Asturian Coast and Great Climbs of the Vuelta cycling holidays. But we generally, recommend riding some other nearby climbs ahead of this one.

You can find out more information below about these and similar tours that we run in high mountains.