Cerro Chirripó
Good to know
- Best time to go
- December to April; permits sell out weeks ahead in high season
- Accessibility
- not-accessible
- Coordinates
- Open in maps
Costa Rica's highest peak at 3,821 meters, reached by a demanding 19-kilometer trail from the village of San Gerardo de Rivas. Hikers overnight at the Crestones base lodge before a pre-dawn push to watch sunrise over both oceans. The páramo landscape of glacial lakes and dwarf shrubs feels closer to the Andes than the tropics.
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