Peña Negrilla

Overview

The Peña Negrilla (2118m) is also known as Moncayo de Castilla because is the western summit of Moncayo's range, in the region of Castilla (province of Soria). When we see the range from Agreda is the first summit visible and the presentation of the range. The frontier between Castilla and Aragón is in collado de Castilla (1950m), the col between Moncayo (2316m) and Peña Negrilla (2118m), an important place to the routes to the range from Agreda, but it exists as well an interesting route from the normal trailhead of Moncayo, the Santuario de la Virgen del Moncayo (1620m) and, for this reason, the climb of Peña Negrilla both with Moncayo across this col is a very good option to climb Moncayo, far of the hordes of people of normal route in sunny days of spring. Of course if we climbed to Moncayo across its normal route we can descent to collado de castilla to climb this summit before the descent to trailhead. This summit is the second in importance of the range after Pico San Miguel/Moncayo (2316m) with a prominence of 166m over the Castillas's col. As curiosity for the peakbaggers it has a secondary summit of 2000m, the Punta Norte de Peña Negrilla (2065m) at North of the main summit.

SE face

Summit

Summit

Getting There

Normal route is from the Sanctuario de la Virgen del Moncayo (1620m).

Approach:

*From Zaragoza: Road N-232 to Magallón and N-122 to Borja and Tarazona.

*From Pamplona: Highway A15 to Tudela (pay) or N121+N232. From Tudela take N-121 to Tarazona.

*From Madrid: Take N-I to the north in direction to Burgos. Before Burgos and Aranda de Duero, take direction to N-121 to Burgo de Osma and N-122 to Soria. Follow the N-122 to Agreda and Tarazona.

From Tarazona to Sanctuary: take to south across local roads to San Martin de la Virgen del Moncayo. The road follow to the former sanatorium of Agramonte (and the center of natural interpretation of park) where the signal indicate to the right: sanctuary 12 km. The approach goes initially for road and then for track up to the parking close to the sanctuary.

Alternatives route from villages in the area of Agreda as Cueva de Agreda (1313m): from Tarazona follow N-122 to Agreda for 15 km.

Red Tape

No permits required but the mountain is in the Natural Park of the Dehesa del Moncayo.

- PRUG (Plan Rector de Uso y Gestión) will establish the usage restrictions of the forest trails and roads in the Park.
- The entry in non-motor vehicles or on foot, and the introduction of non-stock usable tame or non-hunting usable animals can be regulated in the PRUG.
- The only permited recreative or sport activity in the Park is hiking.
- It is specifically forbidden: car, moto or bike races; low flights wich could be birds' disturbing; rock climbing and similar activities in non authorized spots.
- The new tourist, recreative or sport uses will be submit to Dirección General del Medio Natural's authorization.
- It's not allowed to camp outside Campamento Fernando el Católico, Aula de la Naturaleza de Añón and the camp or bivy areas wich PRUG stablishes.
More information in Centro de Interpretación del Parque Natural, placed in Agramonte (Zaragoza). Opens all days from 15 June to 14 September and in weekends and holydays the rest of the year. Tel: 976 19 21 25.

Camping

Bar/Restaurant in the Sanctuary. No camping or huts.

Housing: In the nearby villages of Tarazona, Agreda or Tudela. They are big populations with abundance of hotels, lodgings, bars, restaurants... it is not necessary to recommend any especially since there is no generally problem of housing.

External Links

mendikat, description in spanish and more images.

Images

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