Perito Moreno Boat Times and How the Day Fits

Both one-hour boats run from mid-morning to mid-afternoon. On Hielo y Aventura S.A’s own timetable the south-face boat leaves Bajo de las Sombras at 10:00, 11:30 and 14:30; Southern Spirit Lago Argentino’s north-wall boat leaves Puerto F. P. Moreno at 10:30 (October to April only), 11:45, 13:00 and 14:30. The park lets visitors into the glacier corridor from 8:00 to 18:00 between 1 September and 30 April, and the drive from El Calafate is about 79 minutes, so a 10:00 boat means leaving town by about 8:30.

The departures

Timetables from Hielo y Aventura S.A’s and Southern Spirit Lago Argentino’s own sites, read November 2026; GetYourGuide calendars checked November 2026.

On Bross Travel’s boat, a change to your booked time has to be made at least an hour and a half before the original boarding time, and the boat does not come back for anyone who misses it.

The park’s hours

The Administracion de Parques Nacionales sets access hours only for one part of the park, the Mitre-Moreno corridor: the road in through the Rio Mitre gate to the glacier.

The park entrance, ARS 50,000 a person at the general rate from 1 June 2026, is bought at the gate by card or in pesos, or online beforehand. On a boat morning, buying it online beforehand means one stop fewer at the gate.

The road and the walkways

From the centre of El Calafate it is about 71.1 km by road to the Bajo de las Sombras landing, around 79 minutes by car, and about 76.6 km to the walkways car park, around 92 minutes. The landing and the walkways car park are about 6.1 km apart, a quarter of an hour’s drive.

The walkways themselves are six marked trails of 150 to 1,117 metres on the national parks administration’s map; the lower trail, 1,100 metres and two hours, is the one it rates hardest. Bross Travel’s day tour from El Calafate gives about three to four hours of free time on them.

Two ways to plan the day

These are our sums from the timetables, the gate hours and the drive, not anybody’s schedule:

The south-face plan suits a driver who wants the boat first and the rest of the day free. The north-wall plan needs no second drive, because the port is at the foot of the walkways. Bross Travel’s day tour from El Calafate runs the same two shapes: its south-face option sails first, on arrival at the park, and its north-face option after the walkways.

Check the Nautical Safari's times

Outside the main season

From May to August the gate opens later and closes earlier, entry from 9:00 to 16:00, and the national parks administration warns that low temperatures and snowfall from May to October make some activities and trails harder to reach. On Hielo y Aventura S.A’s own site the Safari Nautico runs all year; Southern Spirit Lago Argentino’s 10:30 sailing runs only from October to April.

When we read the GetYourGuide calendars on 9 November 2026, neither one-hour boat had 15 June or 15 July 2027 on sale, and the Nautical Safari’s calendar showed no date in May or June 2027 at all. A winter boat has to be checked nearer the time, on the calendar or with the company.