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Waymarking and access

Tenerife only recently adopted a system for signposting and waymarking routes using standard European codes. The island has a network of short PR (pequeño recorrido) routes, which are marked with yellow and white paint flashes, and numbered to keep them separate. Signposts will read ‘PR TF…’, with a number following the letters. These codes are quoted in the route descriptions so that walkers will always be able to check that they are going the right way. There are also GR (gran recorrido) routes, which are intended as long-distance walks, but can also serve as simple one-day linear walks. Some short links are marked as SL (sendero local), literally ‘local walk’.

Red and white flashes mark the GR 131, and yellow and white flashes mark the shorter PR routes

Apart from signposts, routes are marked by occasional paint marks, parallel yellow and white stripes for the PR routes, with red and white stripes for the GR routes and green and white stripes for the SL routes. These confirm that walkers are still on course, and usually appear at junctions. Left and right turns are indicated with right-angled flashes, but if the paint marks form an ‘X’, this indicates that a wrong turn has been made.