Toro Verde, Orocovis, Puerto Rico

 

Your first instinct may be to roll your eyes at another opening of a zipline course, as they have become so ubiquitous.

But just about an hour outside San Juan, Puerto Rico has opened a new nature park that injects thrills into the eco-adventure genre. Costa Ricans designed the cloud forest park and admits it’s better than any in their own country. One reason? La Bestia, a two-minute face-down zipline that glides you across a misty 4,745-feet-long, 853-feet-high rainforest valley.