The Pedra do Elefante Natural Monument is in the municipality of Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro.

It provides challenging routes for climbers, who may reach the base via well maintained trails from the Abrigo do Elefante site at Kilometer 2 on the Taquaril road.

Hazards include loose stones, hawks, swallows, snakes, racoons and, according to legend, an ocelot.

[1] It was included in the Central Rio de Janeiro Atlantic Forest Mosaic, which had been created in December 2006.

[7] The civil society members of the board were elected in 2013 as a step towards creating a management plan, required in order to get federal funding.