Description and indication about the best tracks to run in the Madeira Island. All hover the island there are nice trails for training, beside the relative small size of Madeira, it has very different type of trails with amazing landscapes that change a lot from place to place. Giving the amount of trails available, we decided to organize them by municipality, having in mind where it start and end as the geographical reference.   

The presented trails are circular (starting and ending on the same place), so this way you can easily drive to the start of it without any transportation problems.

The famous "Levadas", much sought by the traditional visitor of the island, are by itself great tracks for running in the amazing Laurissilva Forest. But being water channel relatively flat, you need to get off this known "regular" tracks to find the real exciting technical descent, long climbings, stairs, different kinds of terrain and a complete set of race track of the best there is in the world for Trail and Sky Running.

Madeiratrail.com gives you the best places for trainning all over the region, telling you how to get there and the best way to engage every single track. But for who wants to get the best the island as to offer, we recommend the use a specialized guide that can take you to discover the best trails with all the necessary safety. You can look for one through one of this sites/companies:  

- "Go Trail Madeira"(http://www.gotrailmadeira.com/) or "Madeira Trail Tours" (http://www.madeiratrailtours.com/).

Porto da Cruz Official Trail Running Training Tracks 

Madeira Island has the first signalized track especially for Trail Running in Portugal.

The tracks are mantain by the parish council of Porto da Cruz and offers 3 main distances/tracks - 9km, 19km ou 35km - plus several smaller tracks arount the main ones. The three main track are all signalized e go all around the council of Porto da Cruz, they all start and end right on the center of the villa of the north of the Madeira island.

See the presentation vídeo of the "Percurso de Treino do Porto da Cruz" 

Presentation of the placards that are around the hole "circuit" of the Trail Running Tracks in Porto da Cruz

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