Tierra del Fuego National Park and Beagle Channel Tour in One Day

What you see on the Tierra del Fuego National Park and Beagle Channel tour

The day is built in two halves: the park and the End of the World Train by road in the first, three hours of sailing out of the tourist port in the second. Ten hours in total, from US$220, rated 4.2 ★ (45 reviews).

Two running orders exist. With the park and train in the morning you are collected at your accommodation or meeting point, and in the afternoon you reach the box office the operator indicates under your own steam. If you sail first, there is no pick-up: you get to the port yourself for the morning navigation, then present yourself at Av. San Martin 775 for the park and train in the afternoon.

Between the two halves there are two hours in the centre of Ushuaia for lunch. No lunch, drink or snack is included, so you choose a restaurant and pay for it yourself. The port is three blocks from where the bus drops you off, so you can sit down to eat without watching the clock.

The Tierra del Fuego National Park entrance fee is charged separately at the park entry and is not part of the tour price, and it is not covered by the train ticket either. The vehicle is air-conditioned and has a restroom on board; the sailing is the standard channel route past the Bridges archipelago islands to Faro Les Eclaireurs and back.

The day step by step

1. Ride the End of the World Train 50 min
   A 50-minute ride on the End of the World Train along the last 7 kilometres of the Senda de los Presos, the route of the Ushuaia prisoners.
2. Parque Nacional Tierra del Fuego 180 min
   Three hours in the park, driving between viewpoints with stops for photographs. The forest here is beech and ñire, with shrubs, old man's beard, Indian bread and flowers.
3. Bahia Ensenada Zaratiegui 20 min
   Twenty minutes at Ensenada Zaratiegui, looking across to Isla Redonda, with the historic building that holds the last post box of the Argentine Post Office. This stop is made in summer; in winter access is restricted for weather and safety reasons.
4. Bahia Lapataia 30 min
   Thirty minutes at Bahia Lapataia, where Route 3 ends and the End of the World sign marks the link between Ushuaia and Alaska along the Pan-American Highway. This is the photograph most people come for.
5. Lagoon viewpoint
   A viewpoint over a lagoon named for the intense colour of its water, with Cerro Cóndor and Cerro Guanaco rising behind it.
6. Lago Roca 20 min
   Twenty minutes at Lago Roca, called Acigami in Yamana, meaning elongated basket, with mountains, forest and lake in one view.
7. Lunch break in the centre of Ushuaia 120 min
   The road half of the day ends back in the centre. You have two hours to eat at the restaurant of your choice before the sailing.
8. Boarding for the navigation 30 min
   You make your own way to the box office the operator indicates and present yourself there at the time given, to start the second half of the day.
9. Isla de Los Pájaros 15 min
   Fifteen minutes at Isla de los Pájaros, where the birds include skuas, black-browed albatross, steamer ducks, cauquenes, kelp gulls and grey gulls.
10. Isla de los Lobos 15 min
    Fifteen minutes at Isla de los Lobos for the one-haired and two-haired sea lions. Both this island and Isla de los Pájaros belong to the Bridges archipelago.
11. Faro Les Eclaireurs 20 min
    Twenty minutes at Faro Les Eclaireurs, often miscalled the Lighthouse at the End of the World, for the photo stop with the lighthouse behind you. Imperial and rock cormorants nest on the rocks, and the guide tells the story of the SS Monte Cervantes shipwreck, which the itinerary dates to the 1930s.

What is included

Meeting point, pickup and cancellation

• Meeting point: the office entrance, where a little train and a lighthouse stand outside for photographs.
• Park and train in the morning: you are collected at your accommodation or meeting point. For the afternoon navigation you make your own way to the box office the operator indicates, at the time given.
• Navigation in the morning: no pick-up on either half. You reach the port on your own for the sailing, then present yourself at Av. San Martin 775 for the park and train in the afternoon.
• Cancellation: for a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
• Ages: infant 0–3, child 4–11, youth 12–17, adult 18+, senior 66+

Other Tierra del Fuego National Park and Beagle Channel tour options compared

The four tours below stay on land, so they make sense if your channel sailing is already settled for another day. The 5.5-hour option with the train included is the closest to the first half of this page's itinerary; the small-group version with the train optional and the 5 to 6 hour park tour are shorter days around Lapataia and Lago Roca; the 8-hour trekking and canoeing day in Lapataia Bay keeps you out of the vehicle for most of the time.

Tour details from the operator's listing, checked 29 October 2026. Prices and times can change; the booking page has the current ones.

More ways to plan your visit

Tierra del Fuego National Park

What the park protects, where the office is on San Martin and how the entry fee works.

The End of the World Train

Departure times by season, the three stations and the stop at La Macarena.

Les Eclaireurs lighthouse

The turning point of the short cruise, about 20 km from Ushuaia, and why it is confused with another lighthouse.