Hidden Canopy Treehouse

4 photos · 2019

4 photographs tagged Hidden Canopy Treehouse, 2019.

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Wood-paneled interior of a treehouse suite at Hidden Canopy Treehouses in Monteverde, Costa Rica, with large windows overlooking cloud forest.
Hidden Canopy Treehouses is a small lodge of private cabins built on stilts above the cloud forest canopy near Monteverde, Costa Rica. Each suite is finished in local hardwood and opens onto a screened balcony facing the surrounding forest. The property sits adjacent to the Monteverde Cloud Forest Biological Reserve, drawing guests for the birdwatching and wildlife viewing possible from the rooms themselves. Interior common areas combine wood paneling and glass to keep the forest visible from nearly every angle of the living space.

Living Room at Hidden Canopy Treehouses, Monteverde

Monteverde Cloud Forest in Costa Rica at sunset, with flowering plants in foreground and forested hills beneath golden sky.
Monteverde sits along Costa Rica's Tilarán Cordillera, where trade winds off the Caribbean push moisture up the slopes and condense into the near-constant mist that gives the cloud forest its name. The Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve, established in 1972, protects roughly 10,500 hectares and spans six distinct ecological zones across an elevation range of about 1,440 to 1,800 meters. That shift in elevation and moisture supports more than 2,500 plant species, including over 400 types of orchids, along with some 100 mammal species and 400 bird species, among them the resplendent quetzal. Quaker settlers and conservationists who arrived in the 1950s helped set aside the original forest tract, a decision credited with starting the region's long-running ecotourism economy.

Sunset Over the Treetops at Monteverde

A treehouse bedroom in Monteverde, Costa Rica features a canopy bed with mosquito netting, suspended chair, and expansive windows overlooking the cloud forest.
Hidden Canopy Treehouses is a small boutique lodge built into the cloud forest canopy near Monteverde, Costa Rica, with guest rooms raised above the forest floor on stilts. Each suite opens onto a private balcony facing the forest, a design choice meant to put guests at eye level with the canopy rather than looking up at it from the ground. The lodge sits adjacent to the Monteverde Cloud Forest Biological Reserve, one of the region's best-known protected forest areas.

Canopy Bed Suite at Hidden Canopy Treehouses, Monteverde

Sun setting over the Monteverde Cloud Forest canopy in Costa Rica with layered mist and vegetation visible below.
The Tilarán Mountains form the continental divide that runs through the Monteverde region, separating Caribbean-draining slopes from those facing the Pacific. Monteverde's cloud forest sits at elevations between roughly 1,400 and 1,800 meters, where moisture-laden trade winds condense into the persistent mist that defines the ecosystem. The Monteverde Cloud Forest Biological Reserve, established in 1972 by the Tropical Science Center, protects more than 10,500 hectares of this habitat and borders the adjacent Children's Eternal Rainforest, one of the largest private reserves in Central America. The region's elevation and position along the divide create the shifting light and layered haze that mark the transition between day and night over the forest canopy.

Sunset Over the Tilarán Mountains Near Monteverde

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