Size:49,515 hectares
Distance from San José:260 km.
Trails:Yes, from 1 to 20 km.
Dry Season:January through March
Santa Rosa National Park was created in 1971 to commemorate and preserve a historical landmark where the Battle of Santa Rosa took place. After a bloody battle the intruders, called "filibusteros", were driven to exile thanks to a suicide mission made by our national hero Juan Santamaría. In 1955 another group of mercenaries invaded this land, and were chased out as well.
You can expect to find wooden savanna on both sides of the entrance road and all throughout the park. These grasslands are not a natural occurrence, but the result of extensive slash and burn practices.
Much has changed since then, Santa Rosa National Park now protects remaining fragments of tropical dry forest, housing many different species of flora and fauna, such as coyotes, peccaries, coatimundis, tapirs and many varieties of sea and land turtles.
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