Parque Nacional Patagonia — Attraction in Cochrane

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 Andes 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 located 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.

On January 29, 2018, Chilean President Michelle Bachelet and Kris Tompkins, President and CEO of Tompkins Conservation, signed a decree creating 5 national parks, one of which is Patagonia National Park. Parque Patagonia will be gifted to the Chilean state and then combined with Lago Jeinimeni National Reserve, Lago Cochrane National Reserve, and other additional lands to create Patagonia National Park, with a combined size of 640,000 acres...

Generally a super nice par. Nature is amazing and well worth a visit. I can only give three stars though because the organization sucks! Irbid difficult to find information. Entrance and camping must be payed at the visitor center. If you decide to skip the visitor center though (easily done as it is off the road a bit) you miss this information. Camping cannot be payed at the camping… Also they closed for 1st of January. We neither got this info at the visitor center nor was it written somewhere online. In the morning of the 31st rangers came and informed everyone that they need to leave. Some people were out hiking. How and when they got the information no idea. Super stupid and quite annoying as. We had planned to spend New...

The park is a well done project specially by restoring biodiversity. Perhaps one of the most beautiful parks I have visited in South America! The route to the park is like a dream with herd of guanacos (camelids), condors taking sunbath onto the peaks of the mountains and some flying masterfully the skies, the golden grass and wildflowers all made the landscape breathtakingly. We drove from Cochrane through the Carretera Austral, lucky us that it was Friday (Dec. 10, 2022) because every Wednesday there is road maintenance from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. (see picture of the...