Monteverde Waterfall (Catarata Los Murciélagos)
Waterfall · Monteverde
A short, steep trail with rustic bridges, right in town, leads to a 10-meter waterfall and a cold pool you're allowed to swim in.
- Cost
- about $7
- Time there
- 1 h
- Best time
- midday
- Kids
- 6 / 10
- View
- 6 / 10
- Crowds
- 4 / 10
- Swimming
- 6 / 10
- Effort
- 4 / 10
- Location
- 10.30976, -84.81301 — Google Maps
Tip
Pay at the small reception (cash, about 3,500 colones); it's open roughly 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Be careful
Steps and rocks are slippery, and the water is mountain-cold.
Places nearby
- Pizzería e Ristorante TramontiFood & CoffeeFamily-run Italian restaurant since 1993 (founded by an Italian and Costa Rican couple), with a wood-fired oven, house-made ravioli and lasagna and a glass-and-timber dining room above the valley.
- The Bat JungleParks & WildlifeIndoor bat exhibit designed by bat biologist Dr.
- Stella's Monteverde Bakery & CaféFood & CoffeeBakery opened in 1992 by English-born Stella Wallace, now a breakfast and lunch café across from the CASEM crafts co-op, using local cheeses and house bread.
- El Establo Mountain HotelStays · from $253Mountain hotel in Monteverde with its own 65-hectare cloud forest reserve.
- Restaurante La Cuchara de la Abuela (CASEM)Food & CoffeeCooperative-run kitchen at CASEM, the women's craft co-op, serving typical plates and handmade corn tortillas.
- Restaurante Don LuisFood & CoffeeFamily grill in Cerro Plano (since 2013) with beef dry-aged in a glass case in the dining room, plus pizza, seafood and a daily 2x1 happy hour.
Sources: OpenStreetMap node/6662421602 · https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/6662421602 · https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/6662421601 · https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Monteverde · https://wanderlog.com/place/details/222571