Places to Visit in Mountain Pine Ridge, Belize, America

Places to Visit in Mountain Pine Ridge, Belize, America

Mountain Pine Ridge is a reserve forest situated in Cayo District towards the south central of Belize and the forest was established in the year 1944 to protect the native pine forest and forest covers an area of 106,352.5 acres (430 square kilometers). Several parts of the forest are located on a granite massif and few areas of limestone and the Macal River forms the boundaries of the reserve. Mountain Pine Ridge Reserve Forest is situated at the distance of 77 kilometers from the Belmopan, Capital of Belize.

Places to Visit in Mountain Pine Ridge:

Mountain Pine Ridge is home for several native and large mammals like Cougars, Jaguars, Ocelots, White-nosed Coatis, and Baird’s Tapirs and native species are Rufous-capped Warbler, Common Crossbill, Pine Siskin, Eastern Bluebird, Stygian Owl, King Vulture, Ocellated Turkey and many more and national animal of Belize, Baird’s Tapir are found in the reserve forest surrounded by fauna as well.

Big Rock Falls is located in the Mountain Pine Ridge reserve forest, one of the renowned falls in the Belize country.

Things to do in Mountain Pine Ridge:

Visit the native animals
Trekking
Hiking
Biking
Camping

Weather in Mountain Pine Ridge:

Mountain Pine Ridge forest experiences subtropical climate with dry season from the months of February to May and wet season is from July to February and during the summer temperature touches to 39 °C (102 °F) with humidity of 70%.

How to Reach Mountain Pine Ridge?

Mountain Pine Ridge Reserve Forest is located at the distance of 50 kilometers from Matthew Spain Airport, and airports serves with domestic flights to cities in Belize country frequently.

Mountain Pine Ridge has well urbanized road system and Cayo is served by number of bus stations and tourists can board the buses to get around the district and buses ply frequently to all the corners of Mountain Pine Ridge from various parts of Cayo district and other mode of transportation accessible in Cayo district are car, taxi and bikes can be hired to reach Mountain Pine Ridge Reserve Forest.

Where to Stay near Mountain Pine Ridge?

Mountain Pine Ridge is situated in Cayo district and has lot of admired hotels, resorts and Inns. One can found plentiful comfortable hotels in this city. The inn rooms are planned as per the verdure of the tourists. Facilities of the guest rooms include of stylish quilt, LCD flat-screen TVs, mini-bar, refrigerator, walk-in closet, lavatory and room service and cost of the room in Cayo range from $30 to $500 and above per day. Some of the hotels in Cayo are listed here below: