Sloth Watching Trail: Hiking Through Rainforest with Naturalistic Guide to Discover Wildlife

Embark on a thrilling sloth watching trail in the rainforest with a naturalistic guide. Discover wildlife, including sloths, birds, frogs, and insects, on this gentle hike through a 30-acre property.

Duration: 2 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Sloth Watching Trail - You don’t need to venture deep into the rain forest to see Costa Rica’s spectacular wildlife on this guided nature walk in a La Fortuna nature center. On this tour, a guide accompanies you on an easy, kid-friendly walk through the forest, pointing out wildlife like sloths, birds, and tree frogs along the way.
What's Included
  • Expert-led guided tours
Additional Information

Venture on an outdoor trek through the rainforest led by a naturalist guide, where we’ll seek sloths in their natural habitat. On average, we’re likely to spot four to six sloths in the vicinity. Our route spans about 2 miles, teeming with a rich array of biodiversity, so we’ll have opportunities to observe birds, frogs, insects, and other local…

Location
Sloth Watching Trail La Fortuna, Arenal Volcano Private Trail
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Zacharylz8193yn
Mar 24, 2026
Beautiful, educational tour - Top notch experience. Plenty of unique and interesting wildlife. Our guide, Michael, was incredibly knowledgeable and personable. He made our time worth it, pointing out the various creatures and plants that make up the beautiful enclosure and often giving a little story about their background, especially with the sloths. He was an extremely good communicator and made up for our poor knowledge of Spanish with his excellent English. He even taught us a few Spanish words to take home with us. Would highly recommend
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Alexandraee185fx
Jan 24, 2026
Fabulous visit - Great visit with our guide Abel who offered us a beautiful and personalized tour. Thank you 🤩
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Heather_w
Jan 15, 2026
Our guide Augustin went... - Our guide Augustin went above and beyond to help us get amazing pictures of the 13 sloths he spotted! He was excellent and super knowledgeable.
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Maloyskovich
Oct 22, 2025
Sloth. Watching trail - We got to see a sloth from very close and for a ling time, also seen mini colourful frogs and golden tarantulas.great experience, great guide- Chile
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Karanvir
Oct 9, 2025
Recommend! Very friendly - Johnny was very nice helped us take pics for memories and showed us a lot of frogs and other animals oh and also a sloth. Def recommend. Very friendly people
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J0hnna
Sep 28, 2025
Did not disappoint. - It was great. Definitely recommend. We saw Sloths, Monkeys, rainforest frogs and a porky-pine. Make sure you take an umbrella.
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Lindsaycx2225jv
Sep 28, 2025
Sloth tour - We had a great time! Saw multiple sloths, multiple frogs, a snack, iguana, and a male and female basilisk. Our guides were great!
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N2938pialexb
Sep 25, 2025
Excellent sighting tour of sloths as well as coffee and cocoa making - Fully recommended, we took the lazy tour and the coffee & cocoa tour and it was more than magnificent, the attention of Elio and Abel was unbeatable, always super attentive to our questions and made the tour super enjoyable, we learned a lot of both the biodiversity of Costa Rica and the process for the coffee & cocoa making and I have to add that the coffee they produce there is very good, definitely worth buying a bag for the house. We went with my 5-month-old nephew and the two tours were totally friendly for him, nothing complicated and with all the necessary services. If you are in La Fortuna they are definitely worth a visit.
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H4829eplaurao
Sep 10, 2025
Great experience - Wonderful experience we were very lucky, thanks to Elio our guide who had located the sloths and my right in the comments and willing always to explain
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Wanderer381124
Nov 12, 2025
Bust! Unmotivated guide! - Bust! Unmotivated guide! The guide himself gave no information! Questions were often answered with "I don't know."
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From $70
up to 15 guests
1 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).