Puerto de Navacerrada
Madrid's historic ski station in the Sierra de Guadarrama, ordered dismantled by the Spanish courts in 2024 after its national park land concession expired.
- Region
- Community of Madrid / Castile and León
- Country
- Spain
- Status
- closed
- Year closed
- 2024
- Reason for closure
- The concession to occupy National Parks Agency land expired and was not renewed on environmental grounds; a Castile and Leon court ruled in January 2024 that the infrastructure must be dismantled, and the Supreme Court upheld the decision
History
The Puerto de Navacerrada ski station sat on the pass of the same name in the Sierra de Guadarrama, an hour from central Madrid, on land at Pinar de Valsain owned by the Autonomous Organization for National Parks. It ceased to function definitively after three of its pistes, which crossed that agency's land, were closed when the occupation concession expired. The Ministry for the Ecological Transition judged the station's activity environmentally incompatible with a high-value zone bordering the Sierra de Guadarrama National Park. On 31 January 2024 a court in Castile and Leon ruled that dismantling should be activated and that the regional government was obliged to process the expiry of the occupation authorisation; the Spanish Supreme Court subsequently upheld the judgment. The operator was required to remove all infrastructure: the lifts, the water intakes and pipes for artificial snow, and the snow cannons. The station's original opening year is not established in the sources consulted.
Lifts
| Name | Type | Manufacturer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ski lifts | Surface lift | All lifts ordered dismantled under the 2024 court ruling, along with water intakes, snowmaking pipes and snow cannons |
Sources and further reading
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Location
40.7800, -4.0000