Parque Nacional Los Quetzales is a National forest located in Santa María .
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Mar 10, 2025
Unless you hire a guide and go early morning, do not bother with this park. The trail is not interesting, there are no facilities (no picnic table, no map, only 1 toilet was open at the gate). I am n…Full review by bobemama
Nov 25, 2024
They should close this park. The website is bad and no one answers the phone when you call when we showed up at the ticket booth, there was no one there -we could hear people talking inside Had to…Full review by Sean S
Apr 12, 2024
Early start in de morning with the guide called Michael ( like me) so it couldn't go wrong. And he was a briljant guide with an excellent eye. A lot of people with ther own guides were trying to see …Full review by MichaelvK007
Do you have a suggestion for a guide and how to get in touch with him/her?
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You can arrange a guide directly through the park. Our guide was Michael but I imagine they are all good. They do work together when looking for a quetzal.
Hi! Would you mind sharing where and how you booked the guide for your trip? I am heading there next week - and even though it isn't the mating season anymore, I'm hoping to try to see a Quetzal while I am there.
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The guides are organised by your accommodation and where they don't have a resident guide, they will arrange for you to tag along with one of the other groups. Not sure what the cost …
The guides are organised by your accommodation and where they don't have a resident guide, they will arrange for you to tag along with one of the other groups. Not sure what the cost is - ours was included with the booking. Remember it is very cold first thing in the morning - predawn - so take hats/gloves and jackets. each guide is a bit like a pied piper and looks after his own group but they all communicate by radio so although it seems chaotic, it works OK.
Hi Karen...did you find a guide to take you around Los Quetzales park in Costa Rica? Also, what time did you hike? We are coming down from the airport in SJ and will be near the park around 1pm, but I am not sure if that is too late to see anything? Thanks, Laura
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1.00PM is quite too late, you need at least a full day, and you have to take car about the traffic, the trans-american route is full of trucks and very often, not possible to ride more than 30 …
1.00PM is quite too late, you need at least a full day, and you have to take car about the traffic, the trans-american route is full of trucks and very often, not possible to ride more than 30 km/hours, it doubles the ride time. Best is to stop 2 nights, and ask for a local guide at the hotel you arrive, then hike the other day and leave after the second night.
Were you actually in the Park or on the Rd. to San Gerardo or to La Provedencia? Google has the Park covering the whole of the Los Santos Forestry Reserve from Cerro de al Muerte to Santa Maria about 10 times the actual area of the Park so it is hard to know from the many reports if they were actually in the Park or in the area Google has.
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We were at Trogon Lodge, on the road to San Gerardo de Dota, a steep 30 minute drive down from the top of the Inter-American Highway. So, within the park, but on the "strip" with all the …
We were at Trogon Lodge, on the road to San Gerardo de Dota, a steep 30 minute drive down from the top of the Inter-American Highway. So, within the park, but on the "strip" with all the hotels (which means one hotel each half kilometer), but not in the backpacking areas or more rustic areas.
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