Corcovado National Park (Sirena Station)
Park · Osa Peninsula
The wild heart of the Osa: lowland rainforest running down to about 46 km of empty Pacific beach, home to all four Costa Rican monkeys, scarlet macaws and Baird's tapirs. Sirena is the park's main ranger station, the one with dorm beds and hot meals.
- Cost
- about $15
- Time there
- 8 h
- Best time
- morning
- Kids
- 2 / 10
- View
- 8 / 10
- Crowds
- 3 / 10
- Swimming
- 3 / 10
- Effort
- 8 / 10
- Location
- 8.48048, -83.58919 — Google Maps
Tip
Reserve the SINAC permit and a licensed guide well ahead (daily visitor numbers are capped) and choose your entrance by where you sleep: San Pedrillo from Drake Bay, La Leona from Carate, El Tigre or Los Patos from the Puerto Jiménez side.
Be careful
Wear closed shoes and long pants, carry more water than you think you need and time river mouths and beach stretches for low tide; do not walk the trails without a guide.
Getting there
Permit and guide required. Enter only through the ranger stations (Sirena, San Pedrillo, La Leona, Los Patos, El Tigre). Sirena is reached by boat from Drake Bay or Sierpe, a long beach hike from La Leona, or a small plane.
Places nearby
- Bosque del Río Tigre LodgeStays · takes 3 h · from $35Small birding and wildlife lodge at the edge of Corcovado National Park, near Dos Brazos on the Osa Peninsula, with meals included.
Sources: OpenStreetMap way/403807501 · Wikidata Q869074 · https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Corcovado_National_Park · https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q869074 · https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/403807501