San Toribio and Covadonga

[Celi Anatrella]

Any recommendations of stages for a person who does not read maps well and rather follows some well marked arrows to include both San Toribio and Covadonga as part of my Camino del Norte? I only have 30 days to walk. I would like to start in Irun and I don’t mind busing myself a bit to avoid asphalt. I would like to include San Toribio and Covadonga as detours from the Camino del Norte or walk from one to the other if the route is marked now.

Thank you kindly!

 

[LTfit]

Any recommendations of stages for a person who does not read maps well and rather follows some well marked arrows to include both San Toribio and Covadonga as part of my Camino del Norte? I only have 30 days to walk. I would like to start in Irun and I don’t mind busing myself a bit to avoid asphalt. I would like to include San Toribio and Covadonga as detours from the Camino del Norte or walk from one to the other if the route is marked now.

Thank you kindly!

Can only answer about San Toribio. On the day you leave San Vicente de la Barquera you will find a cut off to the left to take the Camino Lebaniego. It is well marked with the red Tau. It is several stages walking to San Toribio. Look at the sub- forum for that particular Camino. Haven't done it myself though have visited San Toribio as a tourist. The surroundings are beautiful.

 

[Jan Jones]

If you don’t want to constantly check maps and are walking less well marked trails it might be worth taking out a subscription to Wikiloc - it’s pretty cheap- then you should be able to find maps for the trails which you can use offline. When you go off trail (or miss an arrow) it will alert you by making a noise. Saved me a couple of times on the Primitivo when I went into ‘the just wandering ‘ zone and it meant I wasn’t stopping to check as frequentl as I have in the past.

 

[LindseyB]

Any recommendations of stages for a person who does not read maps well and rather follows some well marked arrows to include both San Toribio and Covadonga as part of my Camino del Norte? I only have 30 days to walk. I would like to start in Irun and I don’t mind busing myself a bit to avoid asphalt. I would like to include San Toribio and Covadonga as detours from the Camino del Norte or walk from one to the other if the route is marked now.

Thank you kindly!

I am in Unquera, across the bridge from Asturias. 95% of the Norte is asphalt or some sort of pavement, so far anyway.

 

[konnie]

Any recommendations of stages for a person who does not read maps well and rather follows some well marked arrows to include both San Toribio and Covadonga as part of my Camino del Norte? I only have 30 days to walk. I would like to start in Irun and I don’t mind busing myself a bit to avoid asphalt. I would like to include San Toribio and Covadonga as detours from the Camino del Norte or walk from one to the other if the route is marked now.

Thank you kindly!

I walked Toribio in '07 so can't give you current advice. I will just say that I learned about it from the hospitalio in San Vincete. He gave me a small piece of paper with a hand drawn map in pencil. I made it just fine, and the walk was a high light. You'll be fine too.

 

[pinkwadingbird]

I just finished walking the 3 days from San Vicente to Santo Toribio. Gronze.com has gps tracks for this route which I found really useful. The website also has information on distances between towns and available services/accommodation.

 

[Anamya]

As said above, Sto Toribio is about 4 days walk out if san Vicente de la barquera. It's a beautiful route, called Camino Lebaniego. It's marked with red arrows. We did it in 2019 with no maps, but we knew in advance which cities we would pass by, as there were not manh options of places to stop and eat.