About 25 km (16 miles) northwest of Cuernavaca is the beautiful Lagunas de Zempoala Park, with its six lakes fringed by dense forests.

The Lagunas de Zempoala (Nahuatl language: twenty lagoons or many lagoons) national park is a protected area of Mexico by official decree on November 27, 1936, located in the states of Morelos and Mexico. It has an area of 4790 ha. It includes the municipalities of Huitzilac, Morelos, and Ocuilan, State of Mexico. It consists of fir forest, pine and oak. Currently more than half of the lakes is preserved, and the other one is recharged or some formed in the rainy season.

The importance of this National Park lies in the great aquatic biodiversity that occurs in ponds, which are important not only to the region corresponding to the area called Neovolcanic of Mexico. At the site there is a small resort with tourist services among which there are toilets, horse rental, eating area. There is a path that allows walking surround the lake as well as a gazebo. It is allowed to camp. At the site there is a mass of stone of about 32 m ideal for rappelling.

The total area of this park is divided between the southwest boundary of the State of Mexico and northwest of the State of Morelos. Correspond to the first portion located in the Municipality of Ocuilan (within which is located more than half of the park) and the second portion that is located in the town of Huitzilac. Access can be done by taking Highway No. 95 Mexico - Cuernavaca, and at the town of Tres Marias, take the road leading to the village of Huitzilac and hence the deviation that leads to the park, at a distance of 16 kilometers approximately. You can also access though the federal highway Mexico - Cuernavaca.

The national park covers its extension into the central part corresponding to Neovolcanic, whose height in this part exceeds 3,000 m, with its highest elevation the volcanic mountain known as Cerro Zempoala with 3,680 meters. The mountain slopes or inclinations are natural drains which flow the water from the high to low closed to small valleys of volcanic origin, where known gaps of water are formed.

The steep slopes are causing runoff from the mountains, giving birth and feeding the lakes formed in the lower parts in small valleys. This lagoon system belongs to the Depression of the Balsas. Lagoons that are known in the area are: Quila (biggest of all), Zempoala, Compile, Tonatihua, Seca, and Hueyapan Prieta. They are of great importance for nationwide biodiversity. By 2000 only three of these lakes were dry; it is known the existence of a small spring called the Jewel of Atezcapan.

The climate that characterizes the region and in the national park is kind of cold humid with summer rains. The flora found in the lakes is characterized by the abundance of various types of algae that live in a confined space in such height. This creates it one of the most important sites of biodiversity within Mexico. As for the surrounding flora, this is characteristic of the aforementioned Mountains own Neovolcanic of high altitude, making the presence of pine forest, the main species montezumae Pinus, Pinus and Pinus hartwegii teocote. Religious Abies forest, restricted to high areas (high mountains), forms a larger forest tracts and presence there as above, undisturbed. The park is one of the very popular sites especially on weekends by locals from Mexico City or Cuernavaca, mainly because it has several sites dedicated to leisure and retail food facility or practice sports, among them hiking or cycling. This place has an area equipped for camping.