Lakes and viewpoints by bus: reachable, walkable, and not

Sete Cidades

The lakes stop is the last stop of all three crater lines; on weekdays the direct 205 arrives in the morning and the 208 in the afternoon, and at weekends the 208 arrives twice a day ^{[source, source]}. The rim viewpoints have no stop; the signature guide on this site sets out the full weekday and weekend plan.

Furnas and its lake

Line 318 prints Furnas (Lagoa) on the road past the lake before the village, on the morning trip from Ponta Delgada on every day type, and both the 110 and 318 print the village stops from which the lake is a walk ^{[source, source]}. The caldeiras on the north shore, where the cozido pots are buried, have no printed stop ^[source].

Lagoa do Fogo

The crater lake in the Água de Pau massif is the highest lake on the island and is protected from any building around it ^[source]. No AzoresBus line prints a stop at the lake or on the mountain road to it ^[source]. The nearest printed stops are in Água de Pau and Ribeira Chã on the south-coast lines 314, 315 and 318, at the foot of the massif; from there the lake is a long climb on foot, and the timetables describe nothing above the coast road ^{[source, source]}.

Nordeste viewpoints

Line 105 to Nordeste prints Sto. António Nordestinho (Miradouro) and Ribeira dos Caldeirões, the waterfall park, on the first morning trip from Ponta Delgada every day, and on an afternoon trip at weekends ^[source]. Miradouro do Sossego and Miradouro da Madrugada, the picnic-park viewpoints on the road to Povoação, are printed stops only on line 112, which runs once each way on Tuesdays and Thursdays, in the morning from Vila do Nordeste and in the afternoon from Povoação ^[source].

Mosteiros

The rocks and sea pools of Mosteiros, below the Sete Cidades crater, are at the end of line 206, whose first weekday, Saturday and Sunday trips arrive at Mosteiros (Banda de Além) in the morning ^[source].