Las Lenas is closer
By Plane:
Just an hour and a half away from Jorge Newbery Airport in Buenos Aires is the Malargue Airport, the nearest city to Las Lenas (43 miles by land transfer).
By Car:
Nothing compares to planning a journey by car and spending time to arrive in the beautiful mountain valley. Valle de Las Lenas is some 1.200 km (750 miles) from Buenos Aires, and it takes approximately 11 hours to get there.
The suggested route to get to Las Lenas would be to follow Route 7 to Junin, once there, Rout 188 until Gral. Alvear, then Route 143 until San Rafael, after that, Route 144 to El Sosneado, and Finally Route 222 till Valle de Las Lenas, 20 km. past Los Molles. We strongly recommend that you have chains with you as often times in the last few miles you may encounter snow packed roads.
By Bus:
Travelling to Las Lenas by bus is another option. It is quite a pleasant experience, especially if you choose to sleep and relax. Travelling through the night and waking up in Las Lenas is an excellent alternative for those who do not want to lose working or vacation hours.
Las Lenas night skiing
Las Lenas is one of the few ski resorts in South America where you can keep on skiing when the sun goes down; it has more than 1400 meters of safe and illuminated tracks.
Ski to your door step
Las Lenas base is over 2200 meters high and the peak is at 3430 meters. Its location and elevation offer and exceptionally long season from June to October. Because of its location it snows earlier and more. Las Lenas has 27 slopes for different levels and with all of the off-piste covers more than 500 has. Three of the slopes combined have a non-stop skiable length of 7 km, one of the longest in the world.
Pure Adrenaline
Las Lenas freestyle park is specially designed for intermediate and advanced snowboarders and skiers looking for new options. With a length of 1500 meters and a vertical drop of 150 meters, it offers jumps, bumps, boxes and rails for both beginners and experts alike in the freestyle discipline.
Las Lenas ski and snowboard school
A leader in South America, Las Lenas ski school is staffed by 150 top level Argentine and foreign instructors, many work year round in other ski resorts in Europe and North America. There are programs offered for every ability and ages in both group classes and private lessons. There are ski and snowboard guides available for exploring the vast off-piste terrain served by chairlifts and with Extreme Expeditions providing even more terrain accessed with the use of snowcats.
Mini Lenas
Kids have their own place in Las Lenas. From baby Lenas (60 days – 1 year old) to the mini Lenas (1-3 years old) and the snow garden (3-5 years old), they will participate in several recreational and sportive activities assisted and guarded by kindergarten teachers. Combining fun with ski learning.
For kids from 6 to 13 years old the Junior Academy offers a daily classes program (Olimpos) and every Friday there´s a race where the participant children show what they have learned. With these programs parents can relax and be ensured that their children are safe and having fun in our winter time environment being taken care by a professional staff.
School for experts
A three hour daily program where experts will improve their style, train for competition or try freestyle park.
Rental
In Las Lenas the rental shop is located at the base between Acuario hotel and the entrance building. The repair workshop conts with modern machinery and specially trained personnel to assist visitors. In addition, there are rental stores both at Aries and Piscis hotel, which are exclusively for their guests. The rental stores have over 3500 ski and 600 snowboard gear divided in four categories.
Standard, consisting in polyvalent affordable skis. First with polyvalent semicarving gear. Prestige, polyvalent carving. High Gamma, top category where you can find the famous X-Scream series, Crossmax 10 Pilot and the incredible Verse 500.
Extreme Expedition
Accompanied by a ski or snowboard guide along with a ski patrolman providing a safe environment, this is a special experience of skiing off-piste. Extreme expedition is ideal for living the mountain adventrure away from the resort and discovering a different side of Las Lenas with runs available at your level. Giving you the opportunity to get to know Cerro Torrecillas and Cerro Collar of past years we have opened up the possibility of skiing and snowboarding Valle Hermoso, Laguna Escondida and Valle del Desecho.
Valle Hermoso
These expeditions last all day and take you to some of the more remote areas of Valle de Las Lenas. This extreme trip is organized for the high intermediate and advanced skier/boarder able to do varying snow conditions.
Valle del Desecho
This excursion is for high intermediates and advanced with experience in varying snow conditions lasting half a day. Exploring moderate steep terrain in a back valley with virgin snow and returning to the resort by truck.
Laguna Escondida
This trip is for intermediates and advanced lasting half day visiting the beautiful Escondida lake frozen in winter.
We keep on giving you the best
This year at Las Lenas you will be able to do several activities. Thanks to our snow machines you will enjoy the snow even in bad climate conditions. Also, we have and activity program so large that you won´t know where to start. Feel the adrenaline of participating in a race or have fun in a snowman contest, see the expert´s demonstrations, attend stretching classes or go to the closing party to see amazing torch slide down that instructors do every weeks to farewell visitors. And let´s not forget about Leny, children´s best friend. It´s the valley´s mascot and lives in the heart of every snow lover, in the smiles of all the children who visit us and in the breathtaking landscape that Las Lenas has. Leny is waiting at the base, anxious to share a photograph with everyone of them. Because he wants to be part of their vacation´s memory.
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