Curi-Cancha Reserve
Trail · Monteverde
A private reserve of cloud forest and old pasture that birders swear by: wide, gentle trails, giant strangler figs and good odds of quetzals, agoutis and coatis.
- Cost
- about $20
- Time there
- 2.5 h
- Best time
- morning
- Kids
- 7 / 10
- View
- 6 / 10
- Crowds
- 5 / 10
- Swimming
- 0 / 10
- Effort
- 3 / 10
- Location
- 10.30661, -84.80742 — Google Maps
Tip
Go at opening time: birds are busiest early and the trails fill up by mid-morning.
Be careful
Start early, carry water, tell someone your route, and turn back if the weather turns.
Places nearby
- 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.
- Hotel Fonda VelaStaysHillside cloud-forest hotel near the Monteverde 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.
- The Bat JungleParks & WildlifeIndoor bat exhibit designed by bat biologist Dr.
- 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.
- El Establo Mountain HotelStays · from $253Mountain hotel in Monteverde with its own 65-hectare cloud forest reserve.
Sources: OpenStreetMap node/6124472660 · Wikidata Q5194725 · https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/6124472660 · https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/11805966 · https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5194725 · https://reservacuricancha.com · https://www.frommers.com/destinations/monteverde/active-pursuits