Parking guide · el Baix Maestrat
Tell us where you’re heading — El Pebret, Torre Badum or the Alcossebre coves — and we’ll tell you where to leave the car. The Serra d’Irta is Castellón’s last untouched coastline: dirt car parks gratuitos, park tracks and clear rules.
Type a street or a place, or pick one of the shortcuts. The map shows you what’s around it and we work out the best options on foot.
Fifteen kilometres of coast without a single building: the Serra d’Irta is the miracle of the Castellón coast, between Alcossebre and Peñíscola. Its beaches — El Pebret, El Russo, the southern coves — are reached along pistas de tierra y se aparca solo en los recintos del parque, all of them free and all on this map with their real shape.
Inside the natural park there are no ticket machines and not a euro to pay: every car park is a dirt clearing. What there are, are rules — parking outside the marked areas is prohibited, and they do issue fines.
The park’s main one, behind the big wild beach, in along the track from Peñíscola. In summer you need to be there before ten: it’s dirt, it’s limited and there’s no alternative nearby.
The one for El Russo beach, south of El Pebret. A little less obvious, so it holds out slightly longer than the main one on busy days.
A handful of spaces by the watchtower viewpoint, right on the cliff. It holds about four cars: if they’re taken, carry on and park at El Pebret.
The cove’s three lay-bys, coming in from the Las Fuentes side. This is the northern way into the park and it’s a long way from El Pebret: choose your entrance according to the beach you want, because crossing the park by car is slow.
The park’s car parks are gratuitos — no ticket machines, no barriers. In return, the natural park imposes its own: parking outside the marked areas and lay-bys is prohibited (the park rangers do issue fines and the track is narrow), no overnight stays, and at the July-August peak vehicle access can be cortarse temporalmente once El Pebret fills up. The sign at the entrance on the day has the final word.
The classic way into the heart of the park is the El Pebret track from south of Peñíscola: 6 km of dirt (well compacted, fine for an ordinary car taken slowly) to the wild beach car park. One stop you shouldn’t skip on the way: the lay-by at Torre Badum, the 16th-century watchtower hanging over the cliff. From Alcossebre, the natural way in is the southern coves — Argilaga and the rest — with their small lay-bys. And for the legs: the GR-92 runs the park’s entire coastline, with the chapel of Sant Antoni as the summit viewpoint (best reached up the surfaced road from Santa Magdalena).
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Its car park at the end of the track. Summer: before 10.
The viewpoint lay-by — very few spaces; if it’s full, El Pebret and walk the GR-92.
The lay-bys at Cala Argilaga and Las Fuentes.
Up the Santa Magdalena road to the clearing by the chapel.
The three most booked in the area. They are not the only ones.
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