Turó de l'Home and Les Agudes from Santa Fe (PR-C 208)

This is the outing that takes you to the roof of the Montseny from the bottom of the Santa Fe valley. The park signposts it as PR-C 208, a short-distance path with white and yellow marks, and gives it 11.5 km, about five hours on foot and medium-high difficulty. You start among the Santa Fe beeches, at about a thousand metres, and finish on the bare ridge linking the two highest summits of the massif: the Turó de l'Home, at 1,706 m, and Les Agudes, at 1,703 m. On clear days, from the top you can see the Vallès, the Maresme coast and, to the north, the Pyrenees.

From Can Casades to the Briançó spring

The start is at the Can Casades information centre, beside the BV-5114 road in Santa Fe. The first kilometres climb through the beech forest, with shade and a constant gradient; in autumn it is the most colourful stretch of the route. On leaving the forest the path opens onto the sunny slope and reaches the Briançó spring, at about 1,440 m, halfway up between the two summits. It is an old spring partly damaged by a forest track; do not count on it to fill your bottle.

At Briançó the path divides. One branch climbs to Les Agudes and the other to the Turó de l'Home, the highest summit of the Montseny, with the installations of the former observatory. Between the two there is a little over a kilometre of ridge, so you can go up by one branch, cross over the top and come down by the other to the spring, and from there return to Santa Fe through the forest.

The ridge, the wind and when not to climb

There are no trees at the top. The ridge takes the wind full on and the temperature drops a lot compared with the valley, so carry in your rucksack the clothes you do not need in the beech forest. In winter there may be snow and ice on the upper part, and then the route requires equipment and experience. In thick fog, the ridge is disorienting. The park marks no technical passages on the PR-C 208: what is hard is the accumulated ascent and the duration.

For a family with small children or a short day, the walk is different: the circuit of the reservoir and beech forest of Santa Fe, flat and from the same car park.

The short, steep version, from Sant Marçal

The GR 5.2 climbs from Sant Marçal to Les Agudes by the Goitadora scree and continues along the ridge to the Turó de l'Home. It is 7.2 km, high difficulty and about 4 h 10 according to the park. It is shorter, but with a lot more slope.

Parking at Santa Fe or going up by Bus Parc

The public car park at Santa Fe, at km 21 of the BV-5114, is free. On autumn weekends and public holidays, from 10 October to 8 December 2026, it fills up early and the park recommends leaving the car at the Fogars de Montclús welcome point and going up by Bus Parc. Line 573 runs up from the Sant Celoni station, on Rodalies line R2 Nord, on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays; the all-day ticket costs €2.65, is paid in cash and is free up to age 12. Check the time of the last bus down before you start: five hours of route leaves little margin.

For a meal afterwards, La Fonda del Montseny, in the village of Montseny, opens Wednesday to Sunday at midday. The plan from the Santa Fe beech forest to Les Agudes and chestnuts in Viladrau organises an autumn Sunday around this climb.