Hiking & Trekking in Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica

The trails inside Corcovado are among the most demanding and most rewarding in Central America — river crossings, root-covered paths through old-growth rainforest, and the genuine possibility of encountering a tapir or a puma on the route between stations. The park requires all visitors to enter with a certified guide, which is the right call: the trails are not marked in the way a national park in North America would be, the distances are real, and the heat index inside the closed canopy in the dry season regularly exceeds 40°C. The San Pedrillo and La Leona stations on the coastal perimeter offer the most accessible multi-day trekking — overnighting at park stations, waking before dawn to beat the heat, and walking coast through forest through coast over two or three days.