Ochagavía Tourist Office

The Salazar Valley Information and Tourist Office is in Ochagavía, inside the Nature Interpretation Centre, in the centre of the village. It is open all year and is the place to prepare a visit to the Irati Forest from the Salazar side: here you ask about the state of the access roads and about closures. It serves in Spanish, Basque, French and English, and sells publications about the area. Telephone, +34 948 890 641; email, [email protected].

Hours

The valley publishes three timetables:

• Winter, 21 October to 14 March: Monday to Thursday and Sundays, 10:00 to 14:00; Fridays and Saturdays, 10:00 to 14:00 and 16:30 to 19:30.
• Spring and autumn, 15 March to 30 June and 16 September to 20 October: Monday to Thursday, 10:00 to 17:00; Fridays and Saturdays, 10:00 to 14:00 and 16:30 to 19:30; Sundays, 10:00 to 14:00.
• Summer, 1 July to 15 September: Monday to Saturday, 10:00 to 14:00 and 16:30 to 19:30; Sundays, 10:00 to 14:00.

Over the December bridge and on days of heavy visitor numbers the hours may change: the office's seasonal document records the exceptions.

Mushroom permits

To pick mushrooms and fungi in the valley you need a permit, which costs €10 per day and is obtained at this office or at the Valley Council, in Ezcároz. Ask here about the rules before heading into the hills.

The seasonal document

Each season the office publishes a document with the hours and telephone numbers of everything useful in the valley. In the autumn 2026 one there appear, for example, the information point at Casas de Irati, open every day from 9:00 to 18:00 in November; the bar of the Irati-Abodi mountain centre, 15 km from Ochagavía, open at weekends in November from 10:00 to 17:30; the hermitage of Muskilda, with reduced hours in November and December, and the list of companies offering activities with mountain guides, 4x4 excursions, electric bike hire and guided walks. It also gives the timetable of the Pamplona – Ochagavía bus and the telephone numbers of the taxis of Jaurrieta, Vidángoz and Isaba.

The interpretation centre

In the same building, the Nature Interpretation Centre occupies three floors: tourist and environmental information, with the geology, fauna and vegetation of Irati, and an ethnographic exhibition with traditional tools and implements of the Salazar valley. It runs environmental education activities and visits around the village and the valley.

Around

Ochagavía, at 764 m above sea level at the confluence of the rivers Zatoya and Anduña, is worth a stroll: the cross over the Zatoya, the houses with coats of arms and the bridge over the Anduña. For a place to sleep, the Hotel Rural Aunamendi and the Camping Osate are close at hand.