
Salkantay Trail: Lucma Lodge to Machu Picchu
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About the Salkantay Trail: Lucma Lodge to Machu Picchu trail
At 6.7 miles with 2,309 feet of elevation gain, Salkantay Trail: Lucma Lodge to Machu Picchu runs point to point through Cusco Region, from 5,836 feet at its lowest to 9,215 feet at its highest. The steepest pitch reaches 58 percent, against an average of 345 feet of gain per mile. On our gain-and-distance scale it falls in the strenuous band. The nearest town is Quillabamba, 24 miles away.
The trail
Machu Picchu is a 15th-century Inca citadel located in the Eastern Cordillera of southern Peru on a mountain ridge at 2,430 meters (7,970 ft). It is situated in the Machupicchu District of Urubamba Province about 80 kilometers (50 miles) northwest of Cusco, above the Sacred Valley and along the Urubamba River, which forms a deep canyon with a subtropical mountain climate.
Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Along the route
- Lucma Lodgemi 0.0
- Lucmabamba Coffee Experiencemi 0.0
- Camping vista Alegremi 2.4
- abra Mirador Llactapata Machu Picchumi 2.8
- Llactapata Lodgemi 3.6
- Apicola Susan Bee Toursmi 4.8
Places OpenStreetMap maps within 150 m of the route.
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Place names along the route: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Best months are an estimate from NASA POWER climate data (CC BY 4.0), 2001 to 2020 monthly averages adjusted to the trail's elevation, not an official season; check current conditions and closures.