Sloth Watching Tour in La Fortuna - Wildlife Experience
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La Fortuna, Costa Rica
- 1 hour 30 minutes (approx.)
- Offered in: English
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Overview
Take a short guided walk in the rain forest to look for sloths and experience Costa Rica’s diverse wildlife up close. Look for two- and three-toed sloths, a variety of birds, and other wildlife with the insights of a local guide who has a keen eye for spotting wildlife.
- Family-friendly tour
- Tours offered throughout the day make it easy to schedule
- Shorter tour is ideal for people with limited time
- Hotel pickup and drop-off available
What's Included
- Professional art historian guide
- Food and drinks
- Gratuities
- Transportation
Meeting and Pickup
Meeting point
- Sloth Watching Trail La Fortuna, Sloth Park600 east of the Central Park, La Fortuna, Alajuela Province Alajuela, Provincia de Alajuela, La Fortuna, 21007, Costa Rica
Please wait at the Sloth Park reception about 10 minutes before the tour starts. We offer free, secure parking.
End point
This activity ends back at the meeting point.Itinerary
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Sloth Watching Trail La Fortuna, Sloth Park
1 hour 30 minutes • Admission Ticket Included
Additional Info
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Not wheelchair accessible
- Most travelers can participate
- Operates in all weather conditions, please dress appropriately
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 15 travelers
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Cancellation Policy
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
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Reviews
5.0
based on 1,536 reviews
Elizabeth_E, Mar 2026
Our family did this tour upon arriving in Fortuna. We definitely saw sloths and our guide was great, but this is in a park designed for the tours just outside of town. It does not feel like a natural experience.
Response from Host, Mar 2026
Hola Elizabeth,
Thank you for your comment, because this will give us the chance to explain with real data some rumors.
Our property has 35 acres, around 15 hectareas and our total population of sloths is around 15, it is a lie that we cut down the surrounding trees and in fact we work closely with some sustainable organizations to plant endemic trees at specific areas that were deforested around 1930.
During these years (1930-1986) a few families moved to La Fortuna from San Jose, and the business at that time was to have cows for milk and meat and farming; they cut down many forests and still that way until 1990 when the tourism start to grow.
Around the year 2000, local community start to change their mind about sustainability and reforestation become important for the area.
Today, we are creating biological corridors cause sloths are not trapped here and what they do sometimes, is crossing the street because they are not tied to a tree. In fact, we help them to cross the street and our guides can´t bring them back. This is the first, bigger and the only Sloth Watching Trail in Fortuna. This is one of the last primary and secondary forest nearby La Fortuna Donwtown
Corey_B, Mar 2026
Saw several sloths, a few toucans, couple snakes, and some other wild birds. Everyone in the group had a great time
Heidy_B, Mar 2026
I had a wonderful experience and got to see a sloth face and a Tuscan. I def will recommend this place
Jeff_T, Feb 2026
An excellent experience. Great guide and good fun. A perfect venue to spot sloth in a natural habitat
Christine_A, Feb 2026
We had a little extra time while in La Fortuna and decided to take this tour since it wasn’t too far away from our Airbnb. Jason was our guide and he was amazing. He was very friendly and knowledgeable. He answered all of our questions and showed us the sloths in the area. It felt like we were on the magic school bus on a field trip! While other tours may say it’s a sloth tour, this sloth park you’re guaranteed to see sloths. At the end we saw a mom and baby sloth sleeping high up in the tree! We would definitely come back again.
Robin_C, Feb 2026
Our guide was very friendly and knowledgeable. We saw many sloths, a dart frog, lizard, birds and learned a lot about the different animals and nature of the area
Christyn_F, Feb 2026
Thank you Augustine for showing us a very educational and exciting for we were able to see 11 slot and multiple frogs even an owl. Thanks so much.
Darren_I, Feb 2026
Treetop viewing only. Expect to probably get rained on and be looking through a spotting scope at the top of trees the whole time hoping to be able to make out a sloth. Tour guide was super nice and knowledgeable.
Response from Host, Feb 2026
Hola Darren, thank you for your feedback.
Every single day is different, sloths are free to move on a 14 acres property and sometimes they are up on the trees and sometimes they do a show for visitors staying really close, is just matter of luck.
Also please, keep in mind that this is a Rainforest, rain is someting we expect almost every single day :)
Janel_N, Jan 2026
Very fun your and we saw so many sloths! The guide was very knowledgeable and friendly and I was so excited to see both types of sloths on this tour! There was even a large poisonous snake hiding in the woods!
Cristina_G, Dec 2025
We saw so many sloths! Snakes, frogs and even a glass frog. The experience exceeded expectations. We did the 8AM tour when the animals are very active.
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