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In December, Comala's main garden fills with craft and food stalls for the holiday season. The restaurants in Los Portales also extend their service for visitors. A good plan to try the region's ponche, bread and coffee and to buy handicrafts.

During Holy Week, the main garden of Suchitlán, an Indigenous community in Comala, hosts a food and crafts market with typical Colima dishes and products. It comes with dances, music, workshops and exhibitions. A great chance to experience the culture of the region's native peoples.

A former railway station on the line that brought timber down from Cerro Grande, today a small mountain community in Comala inside the Sierra de Manantlán Biosphere Reserve. Its main attraction is the mountain scenery, with viewpoints toward the volcanoes, interpretive trails and camping areas. Local guides lead walking, mountain biking or horseback tours to places such as the Pozo de la Peña.

An organic and crafts market held on the last Saturday of each month in Nogueras, run by the University of Colima's environmental management center. Small producers sell vegetables, honey, coffee, ponche, jams, cheese, whole-grain bread, soaps and crafts made from recycled materials. Fair-trade, buy-local atmosphere.

A stretch of about 300 meters of the Comala–Suchitlán road, near kilometer 6, where a car in neutral, a bottle or even water seems to roll uphill instead of downhill. Students from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Colima studied it in 2016 and attributed it to an optical illusion of the terrain. It is a roadside curiosity for a short stop, between Comala and Suchitlán.

Ecopark of the University of Colima next to the former Nogueras hacienda, a few minutes from Comala. It has trails among native trees, birdwatching and a botanical garden with the flora of the Colima valley. It offers guided visits and environmental workshops, such as recycling and composting, and pairs well with a visit to the Alejandro Rangel Hidalgo Museum.

Exhibition hall of the Colima Graphic Arts Training and Production Center, on the Villa de Álvarez-Comala highway. Its collection exceeds 1,200 prints gathered through donations and exchanges, with works by Juan Soriano, Francisco Toledo, Gilberto Aceves Navarro, Jean Hendrix and José Luis Cuevas. Admission is free; there is parking, restrooms and accessibility for people with disabilities.

Sculpture garden at the entrance to Comala, next to the La Parotera area. It opened with the piece 'Pájaro sobre ola', donated by artist Juan Soriano, and gathers about 20 outdoor sculptures by Mexican and foreign artists. Under its huge parota trees it is a pleasant spot to stroll, read or rest.

A mountain community in Comala, near the Jalisco border, famous for Colima's first hydroelectric plant, inaugurated in 1906 and fed by two ponds that are now used for recreational fishing and rowing. There is a community museum about the plant, a guided trail that descends a cliff, remains of the Camino Real, dugout shelters (fortines) from the Cristero War, a camping area, simple cabins and a thatched-roof restaurant overlooking the lake.

Guided bus tour through Comala's coffee country. It starts at the Nogueras Cultural Center (it also departs from Colima's Cathedral) and stops at the Rangel Hidalgo Museum, the ecopark, a coffee station with a talk about the bean, Suchitlán, Los Colomos, El Remate and Comala's arcades. It runs on weekends; schedule and length vary by departure.