GR01 FAI
Faial Costa a Costa
OpenLast checked September 27, 2026
Faial coast to coast, the island's Great Route: 37 kilometres across it past the volcanic cones, chimneys, craters and caves that built it. It is the longest walk on Faial and the register gives twelve hours for it, which makes it a two-day route in practice. Graded hard.
Route facts
- Start and end
- Faial Costa a Costa
- Length
- 36.8 km one way
- Official walking time
- 12 h
- Difficulty
- Hard
- Route type
- Point to point
- Start coordinates
- 38.59309, -28.61267
Figures as the regional trail service publishes them on the trail's own page. A row is missing where the official sheet does not state it.
Before you go
- This route starts and finishes in different places, so settle how you will get back before you set off.