Jose's Crocodile River Tour
Parks & Wildlife · Jacó & Herradura · Nature tours
Boat tours on the Tárcoles River to see big American crocodiles up close, plus scarlet macaws, roseate spoonbills, ospreys and mangrove channels. Guides get glowing reviews for knowledge and humor.
Contact & directions
- Website: https://crocodilerivertour.com/
- Phone: +506 2637 0795
- Location: 9.777107, -84.626522 — Google Maps · Waze
Secret spots nearby
- Playa Azul & Tárcoles River MouthNature spot · Free · hidden gemWhere the Tárcoles River pours into the Gulf of Nicoya: a wide estuary beach with flocks of gulls, pelicans and frigatebirds, fishing boats, and at dusk, pairs of scarlet macaws flying out to roost in the mangroves.
- Playa TárcolesBeach · Free · hidden gemThe beach of Tárcoles village, a short drive from the crocodile bridge and the river mouth.
- Carara National ParkTrail · about $11A transition forest where Costa Rica's dry north meets the humid south, famous for wild scarlet macaws plus trogons, monkeys and agoutis.
- Crocodile Statue, TárcolesLandmark · FreeA crocodile sculpture by the coastal highway at the fishing village of Tárcoles — a fun photo stop that goes with the real crocs under the Tárcoles bridge a few minutes north.
- Laguna Meándrica Trail (Carara)Trail · about $11 · hidden gemCarara's quiet northern sector, right by the Tárcoles bridge: a flat forest trail to an old oxbow lagoon of the river, with herons, kingfishers and often macaws.
- Tárcoles Crocodile BridgeNature spot · FreeThe Route 34 bridge over the Río Tárcoles is a free front-row seat to one of the biggest American crocodile hangouts in the country: dozens of crocs, some 4 m long, sunning on the sandbanks below.
Sources: https://crocodilerivertour.com/