Parque Municipal Llao Llao
From Cerro Campanario the road continues west, passing the Regata Club and rounding the Península San Pedro before arriving at kilometre 23 and the entrance to the Parque Municipal Llao Llao. This free municipal park — distinct from the surrounding Parque Nacional Nahuel Huapi — contains a network of easy walking trails through arrayán and coihue forest, with branches leading to the shore of Lago Moreno and to the pier at the hidden Lago Escondido, a small mirror lake a few minutes' walk from the road.
Just beyond the park entrance, the Capilla San Eduardo occupies a small hilltop at kilometre 25.5. The chapel was designed by architect Alejandro Bustillo and built in 1938, the same year as the adjacent Hotel Llao Llao — and by the same hand. Its neo-Gothic silhouette of cypress timber and stone, with a pitched roofline that mirrors the mountain forms behind it, was a deliberate architectural choice: Bustillo wanted the building to feel grown from the landscape rather than placed upon it. Fifty-eight stone steps lead up to the entrance terrace, from which the Llao Llao hotel and the peaks beyond fill the view completely.
The Hotel Llao Llao itself sits at kilometre 25 on a low promontory between Lago Nahuel Huapi and Lago Moreno. Bustillo's original 1938 hotel — built of cypress logs and larch tile roofing in a Canadian mountain style — burned to the ground in October 1939 under circumstances that were never fully explained. It was rebuilt in concrete and reopened in December 1940. The hotel closed again in 1978 for fifteen years before a third opening in 1993 as a full resort. Guests staying here have full access to the restaurants and grounds; independent visitors can use the café and take in the exterior and grounds.