Where Is Mount Fitz Roy?

Where Mount Fitz Roy is: in the north of Los Glaciares National Park, Santa Cruz, Argentina, above the village of El Chaltén, about 220 km by road from El Calafate, whose airport is the nearest.

Updated November 2026

Mount Fitz Roy is in Argentine Patagonia, in the province of Santa Cruz, in the north of Los Glaciares National Park. The village at its foot is El Chaltén, about 13 km from the summit in a straight line. El Chaltén has no airport: the nearest is El Calafate’s, about 200 km away by paved road, and El Calafate town is about 220 km away. You either sleep in El Chaltén or come for the day from El Calafate.

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Map of El Chaltén and the mountains west of it: Fitz Roy above the Fitz Roy valley, Cerro Torre above the Torre valley, Laguna de los Tres, Laguna Capri and Laguna Torre, the Río de las Vueltas and the road to El Calafate leaving to the south-east
Fitz Roy stands above the valleys west and north-west of El Chaltén; the road to El Calafate leaves the village to the south-east.

The mountain

Fitz Roy, also called Cerro Chaltén, is 3,405 m on the national park’s North Zone trail leaflet. Its granite towers rise above the Río Blanco valley, with Laguna de los Tres and a small glacier at their foot. Cerro Torre, 3,102 m on the same leaflet, stands in the next valley to the south-west. The two stand in the park’s North Zone, and the APN notes that its services and trails all leave from the village of El Chaltén.

Illustration: a small village of low colourful roofs in a river valley, with a massif of granite spires rising above the wooded slopes behind it
Illustration. El Chaltén sits in the valley below the mountain; the road from El Calafate comes in from the south-east.

Getting there

  • By air: there is no airport in El Chaltén (the El Chaltén tourism office, read November 2026). The nearest is El Calafate’s, which the tourism office places 22 km from El Calafate and 200 km from El Chaltén on a paved road.
  • By road from El Calafate: about 220 km, all paved (APN, how to get there, read November 2026).
  • By bus: regular buses run between El Calafate and El Chaltén several times a day (the El Chaltén tourism office’s timetable, October 2026).
  • On a tour: a private day or a coach day from El Calafate, there and back the same day.
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The calendar is VIENTO BLANCO.’s private day from El Calafate, from US$529 for up to three (checked November 2026). The national park fee is extra: ARS 50,000 on the general rate from 1 June 2026, online and by card at the El Chaltén portals (APN).

A day trip or a night?

A day trip from El Calafate gives you the road, the village and short walks: enough to see the mountain if the sky is clear. To walk to its foot, at Laguna de los Tres, you need either a guided hiking day that starts at dawn or a night in El Chaltén. Fitz Roy without hiking and guided Fitz Roy hikes cover the two.

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Tours around Fitz Roy with Open Dates

Hikes, day trips and private days in the north of the park with live availability. What is included and the cancellation terms show before you book.

El Chaltén/Mount Fitz Roy: Private full-day excursion at a great price

From El Calafate to Fitz Roy in a Day

4.9/5 from 23 verified reviews · From US$529 per group up to 3 (the vehicle and day for up to three; checked November 2026) · Free cancellation

VIENTO BLANCO.'s private day: pickup in El Calafate, the road north, an hour in El Chaltén and two short walks or the Capri trail, about 10 hours. Up to three people; the park fee is extra.

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