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Parque Nacional Volcán Arenal

Ruta 142, 16 km al oeste de La Fortuna

  • Parking
  • Surrounded by nature
  • Local resident rate
  • Every day
    08:00 – 16:00

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About Parque Nacional Volcán Arenal

A protected area with two sectors and two cones: Arenal, still active, and Chato, dormant with a lagoon inside its crater. Marked trails cross secondary forest and hardened lava fields, on walks of one and a half to three hours. Tickets are not sold online: you buy them at the gate the day of your visit.

What to expect
  • Two sectors, Volcan and Peninsula, both with views of the cone.
  • The most walked trail is Las Coladas, nearly 2 km, reaching the remains of the 1992 lava flow.
  • El Ceibo, another 2 km, passes a giant kapok tree and an enormous strangler fig.
  • In the Peninsula sector there is a trail designed for reduced mobility and a viewpoint at the end.
Accessibility
  • The Peninsula sector has a trail designed for visitors with reduced mobility.
  • The trails in the Volcan sector are dirt and loose rock over lava: not wheelchair accessible.
Additional information
  • Entrance: 15 dollars for foreign visitors, about 1,000 colones for nationals.
  • Open every day of the year, holidays included.
  • Climbing the cone and its immediate surroundings is forbidden, and fires are not allowed. It is not fussiness: the volcano is still active.
  • Tickets are bought at the gate on the day.

What people who went say

4.6out of 5 on google
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Fuimos hoy. No está bien señalizado a pesar de lo que dicen otros comentarios. Incluso el mapa es confuso. La vista del volcán es la misma que desde cualquier parte de la ruta que lleva a La…

A nosotros nos ha encantado. La vegetación es exuberante, hay mucha fauna, los caminos están bien señalizados pero hay que llevar buen calzado ya que están embarrados. Las vistas del volcán…

Los ticket se compran al llegar no online. La atencion no es buena y no dan indicaciones acertadas. El trekking completo depende de cada persona pero si se hacen todos los senderos no menos…

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