Torres del Paine Entrance Fee: The Full CONAF Price Table for 2026

Foreign (non-resident) visitors

This is the tariff almost everyone reading this pays. The multi-day pass is not a per-day rate, it is a flat price for any stay of more than two days, up to a CONAF-set maximum of 10 days on one ticket.

Chilean nationals and Chilean residents

If you hold Chilean citizenship or residency, the tariff is roughly a third of the foreign rate. Bring the ID that proves it; rangers do check.

Entry only

The torres del paine entrance fee gets you through the gate. That is the whole transaction. It does not include a refugio bed, a campsite, transport inside the park, the Grey catamaran crossing, or any guided service, including the guide that CONAF currently requires on Base Torres.

Every one of those is booked and paid separately, usually with a different company entirely.

• Covered: entry to the park for the number of days on your pass
• Not covered: refugios, campsites, in-park transport, the Grey catamaran
• Not covered: any guided service, park shuttle bus, or a day tour's vehicle and driver
• Still required even when free: children, seniors and disabled visitors need a ticket issued in their name

Buying before you travel

There is no ticket window and no card machine at Laguna Amarga, Lago Sarmiento or Río Serrano, the park's three vehicle gates. Everything runs through Pases Parques, CONAF's official portal for Chile's protected areas, and you need the ticket sorted before you leave Puerto Natales.

• Go to pasesparques.cl and select Torres del Paine
• Choose daily or multi-day, and the date (or first date) you will enter
• Enter each visitor's details, matching the passport or ID you will carry
• Pay online by card; there is no cash option anywhere in this process
• Save the QR code confirmation to your phone, and print a copy as a backup
• Bring the ID that matches the ticket; a mismatched name gets questioned at the gate

What happens at the gate

A ranger scans the QR code from your phone or a printed copy. That is the whole check. If you booked a guided day tour, your driver usually handles the group's tickets as one batch, but the ticket itself was still bought online in advance, it did not appear out of a machine at the gate.

If you are arranging your own transport, build in the QR code before you leave; there is no fallback if your phone dies and you have no printout.

What we found when we checked

Several travel sites have repeated a claim that from 1 May 2026 Torres del Paine would move to a route-based, sector-by-sector ticket, priced separately for something like a 'Full Day,' a 'Base Torres' pass, a 'W' pass and an 'O' pass. We went looking for that on the official CONAF tariff page, and it is not there. What is published, as of 16 August 2026, is the day-versus-multi-day structure in the table above, with no sector pricing attached to it.

Gate hours

The three vehicle entrances, Laguna Amarga, Lago Sarmiento and Río Serrano, run on a seasonal schedule.

What is restricted right now

Two rules are live as of 16 August 2026, and both are worth checking again before you travel, since neither is permanent.

• Base Torres: an accredited specialised guide is mandatory from 27 April to 30 August 2026. You cannot walk it independently in that window.
• Macizo Paine, the O Circuit, is closed until 31 October 2026.
• Base Torres has a ranger-enforced turnaround cutoff below the viewpoint: 15:00 in October, November, March and April; 16:00 in December, January and February; 14:00 from May to August. Arrive after the cutoff, even by ten minutes, and rangers turn you back.

A worked example

This is the confusion the fee causes more than any other: people budget the tour price as the whole cost of the day, and the entrance fee is not in it. Here is one real day tour, priced out with the fee added, for a single foreign adult.

What this means for comparing tours

That total runs about a third higher than the advertised tour price, and it is the same story on every day tour we list, not just this one. Add the fee before you compare prices between operators, not after, or the cheaper-looking tour can end up costing the same as the pricier one once the gate is paid.

Refugio and campsite booking

The entrance fee has nothing to do with where you sleep. Every night inside the park, whether in a refugio bed or a booked campsite, is arranged separately and in advance with one of two operators: Las Torres Patagonia for the Central, Chileno and Norte sectors, and Vértice Patagonia for Paine Grande, Grey, Perros and Dickson. Wild camping is not permitted anywhere in the park.

• Rangers can and do ask for proof of your accommodation bookings, both at the gates and at checkpoints on the W and O routes
• Turning up on the W without a confirmation in hand is how people get turned around partway
• The 2026-27 season opened for booking on a staggered schedule between April and June 2026, with December to February dates going first

The fee is the same whether you have four hours or fourteen

A daily pass costs the same 32,400 CLP whether you spend four hours at the Salto Grande viewpoint or push through to the Base Torres checkpoint before the cutoff. That flat structure changes how you should think about the day: since the entry price does not scale with how much you see, the thing worth optimising is the itinerary, not the ticket. We break down exactly how to sequence a single day, including the cutoff times rangers enforce at Base Torres, in our one-day itinerary guide, and it is worth reading before you commit to a start time.

• A rushed morning departure from Puerto Natales still pays the full daily rate
• A multi-day pass only earns its higher price if you are actually staying more than two days
• Getting to the gate on time matters more for value than which sector you pick, since a late start eats into the same fixed ticket

Getting yourself to the gate

If you are not on a guided tour, you still need to get from Puerto Natales to one of the three gates on your own, and that leg is not part of the entrance fee either. Bus fares, driving times and the border crossing from El Calafate are covered in full in our guide to getting to Torres del Paine. The short version: budget close to two hours each way by road to Laguna Amarga, on top of the day inside the park that the fee buys you.

A guided day tour, like the full day tour from Puerto Natales, folds that transport into one price, which is the main reason people book one instead of arranging the bus and the ticket themselves.