Visitor Experience

The Monteverde Reserve welcomes thousands of nature conservation enthusiast visitors from all over the world every year. We want to offer you an unforgettable experience while exploring the cloud forest. Here you can buy your tickets, choose guided tours, and book your accommodation at our lodge.

Natural History Tour

Learn while exploring the trails of the cloud forest! On this 2-hour-and-a-half tour, you will learn about ecology, natural history, and local flora and fauna activity inside this changing habitat in its transition to a rainy forest.

Bird Watching Tour

Quetzals, bellbirds, tanagers, toucans and more! Monteverde is home to more than 400 species of resident and migratory birds. Halfway through this 6-hour tour, you will enjoy delicious Costa Rican gastronomy at the Raíces restaurant.

Night Tour

Wake your senses with the mystery night sounds of the cloud forest and the magic glow of the bioluminescent mushrooms! On the Night Tour, you will learn about amphibians, reptiles, and insects' roles in climate change studies. (Mixed or private groups, 10 people maximum).

Would you like to explore the cloud forest with certified experts? Book one of our guided tours and live the Monteverde Preserve full experience.

Stay at La Casona Cloud Forest Learning Center inside the Monteverde Reserve. Ask about our options on biodiversity, ecology, and life-zones lectures. We offer plants, insects, and mammals learning activities, as well as natural history and night tours. Book your stay by mailing [email protected] or via WhatsApp at +50689664202.

Additional Services

Book a space for your vehicle at our Harriett Powell Visitor Center in Monteverde and help the Costa Rican Red Cross local committee.

Claim your binoculars. Don’t miss any magical detail inside the cloud forest.

Any memento of your cloud forest experience in the cloud forest? Don’t miss our shop. Support local artisans, find yourself a gift and take a tiny bit of Costa Rica with you.

Los Cusingos Bird Refuge

Visit one of the last high-humidity premontane forest strongholds in southern Costa Rica. Along with its biological relevance, this protected area was home to Alexander Skutch, one of the greatest ornithologists in history. Located in Quizarrá, Pérez Zeledón, you will find the Skutch family house museum, superb bird-watching trails; pre-Columbian archeological stone sites; and our famous orchid garden.