If you are visiting La Fortuna and looking for a thrilling ziplining tour deep in the rainforest, then look no further than Sky Adventures park.
Sky Adventures in La Fortuna offers three activities: aerial tram, ziplining tour, and hanging bridges walk. As the park is near Arenal Volcano National Park, visitors can spend the day immersing themselves in absolutely incredible views of the surrounding rainforest, Arenal Volcano, and Lake Arenal.
Below you can read all about our visit to Sky Adventures in La Fortuna. We also have a video you can watch.
Want to book your Sky Adventures activities? Click to go to our Sky Adventures booking form to check rates and availability to request to book.
Location of Sky Adventures in La Fortuna
Sky Adventures is about a 30 minute drive from downtown La Fortuna, 21.5 kilometers or 13.3 miles.
The park is located near Arenal Volcano National Park, Lake Arenal and the small town of El Castillo, southwest of La Fortuna.
How to Get to Sky Adventures
You can find the park under “Sky Adventures” on Google Maps or Waze.
To drive there, a high clearance car is recommended. A 4×4 is not absolutely required, but a high clearance SUV will be best. They have a free parking lot.
No direct buses or shuttles.
If you do not have your own transportation, Sky Adventures offers round trip transportation from hotels in La Fortuna for an extra $22 USD + taxes/fees per person. One way is $15 USD + taxes/fees per person.
Hours
The park is open everyday from 8 AM to 315 PM.
Services
The park has lockers, restrooms, free parking, souvenir store, go pro rental, photos available for purchase and a restaurant. The restaurant is alright, but a bit pricey. If you are not starving, I would go somewhere else to eat.
Sky Adventures La Fortuna Video
Below is a video of our visit to Sky Adventures Park.
You can see what the park is like in action as we ziplined, hiked and took their aerial tram.
Activities
Sky Adventures has an aerial tram, ziplining and hanging bridges. You can choose one, two or all three activities during your visit.
For the hanging bridges, you can book it as a guided walk with a naturalist guide or you can do it self guided to walk it on your own.
In order to do the ziplining tour, you must take the aerial tram to get to the first cable.
Now let’s get more into details about each activity.
Aerial Tram (20 minutes up)
The Sky Adventures aerial tram takes visitors on a peaceful ride, more than 800 meters (2624 feet) up.
Along the way, you’ll see Lake Arenal and Arenal Volcano as you ascend through the lush rainforest until you reach the observation deck.
Once there, soak in all the views and take photos on the Giant Hand with the lake as your backdrop. You can also see Arenal Volcano and the start of the ziplinine tour.
If you are doing the ziplining, then you will continue onto the first cable from the observation deck. If you are not ziplining, you will ride the aerial tram back down.
The aerial tram experience have bilingual guide available to share tidbits about the local flora and fauna along this 20 minute per way ride.
The Sky Adventures aerial tram truly gives you some of the best views of the entire area around Arenal Volcano!
Ziplining (around 2.5 hours)
Details: 7 cables, professional braking system that does not require manual braking (no pulling down on the cable), no hands on the cable system and all cables are connected via grounded platforms.
The Sky Adventures ziplining tour can only be described as an adrenaline fueled adventure. and one of the BEST ziplining tours in Costa Rica.
With seven cables, intricately set among the rainforest tree tops for breathtaking views of Lake Arenal and Arenal Volcano, you’ll have an experience of a lifetime zipping over and through the trees.
You literally zipline right towards Arenal Volcano for a couple of the cables and then the others towards Lake Arenal!
On a clear day, there’s nothing quite like the experience of soaring over the rainforest, right towards an active volcano!
With the no manual braking system, you don’t have to worry at all about pulling on the cable.
The longest cable reaches over 750 meters (over 2460 feet) and the highest is 200 meters (656 feet). You will fly up to speeds of 70 km/h! (43 mph).
Sky Adventures’s ziplining tour keeps the adrenaline flowing, as you zipline from platform to platform. The guides keep a constant smile on your face as they crack jokes with the group. It’s non stop fun and excitement the entire time!
The Sky Adventures zipline is one of our favorite things to do in La Fortuna.
Suitable for families of all ages, with children at least 5 years of age. A fantastic family activity in La Fortuna for the outdoorsy, adventurous family!
Want to book the Sky Adventures ziplining tour? Click to go to our Sky Adventures booking form!
Hanging Bridges (Guided or Non Guided)
Sky Adventures has their own hanging bridges trail. It has a few long hanging bridges, two small non suspended bridges, bathrooms and one observation point on the 4 km 2.5 mile) trail.
Visitors can do the hike on their own or opt for a naturalist guide to enrich their experience. For those short on time or prefer a leisurely walk at their own pace, a guide is not really required nor needed.
2.5 hours on a guided walk, 1.5-2 hours on a self guided walk.
For those interested in learning about the secrets of the rainforest, a guided walk will be very interesting.
The natural trail does have some elevation and uneven terrain, but as it goes deeper into the rainforest, all you hear are cicadas, monkeys and birds.
The longest hanging bridges are 127 meters (416 feet) in length and 46 meters (150 feet) in height and 143 meters (469 feet) long and 70 meters (229 feet) high.
You’ll then reach a viewpoint, called El Millon, to see Lake Arenal and El Castillo.
Continue onwards, and there are some bathrooms and then you will reach the end of the trail, exiting the way you came in.
The guided hanging bridges walk is around 2.5 hours long. If you walk the hanging bridges trail on your own, it can take you around 1.5 hours.
Overall
Sky Adventures is a fantastic option for those looking for the fastest, longest and most thrilling zipline tours in Costa Rica. It may not have a tarzan swing or Superman cable like other tours, but the views alone on cables going up to 70 kmph will keep your heart pounding the whole time!
The park does get quite busy during the high tourism season from December through April. Although they have many guides that do a great job of keeping the flow and organizing the groups into the designated time slots, sometimes you may have to wait on the platform for a little bit for your turn.
As the park’s only 30 minutes from downtown La Fortuna, and close to Mistico Hanging Bridges Park, Arenal 1968 and Arenal Volcano National Park, you can combine your zipline/aerial tram/hanging bridges walk with another great activity in the morning or afternoon.
You can do the ziplining tour in the morning, hike Arenal Volcano National Park afterwards, and then end the day at the hot springs.
Check out our La Fortuna itineraries to see what else we recommend for 1 – 4 days.
Book Your Experience
If you’re ready to make your reservation at Sky Adventures, please click to go to our Sky Adventures booking form!
Bonnie marie Tibbitts says
what information do you have about white water rafting on the Tenorio river? we will be in Bijagua for 3 or 4 nights in December
Is 4 night too long? we are going to spend 5 nights in Samaura after leaving Bijagua.
Thank you
Sammi says
Bijagua is a very cute town but 4 nights is a bit long, although if you are just looking to relax, do nothing, enjoy nature, go birdwatching, then that may be a good enough time for you, but usually people spend 1 or 2 nights in Bijagua to visit the national park and then one day to go birding or a nature walk. It’s a teeny tiny little town.