Closest Beach to the Capital of San Jose to get Closer

Already the closest beach to the capital of San Jose, Jaco Beach continues to grow into one of the biggest tourist destinations in Central America.  Perhaps the only drag factor slowing Jaco’s impressive development in recent years has been the zig-zag country highway that connects it to the airport and capital.

That will soon change, with a new highway connecting Costa Rica’s capital, San Jose, to the coast. The 49-mile Caldera toll-way is one of the most important developments in Costa Rica.  Once finished, it will take barely one hour to go from San Jose or the international airport to Jaco.

Crews have been at work for months excavating, widening bridges, updating drainage, and paving from the highway’s origin near the Caldera port on the Pacific, through the mountain range to the edge of San Jose.

The $230 million highway, ranking as one of Costa Rica’s largest infrastructure projects ever, is being financed by Caja Madrid and Central American Bank of Economic Integration (BCIE).  According to Autopistas del Sol (Sun Highways), the concessionaire in charge of the Project, the highway will feature QuickPass sensors for electronic toll payment. 

I've always felt that having 3.5 million people two hours away in San Jose makes Jaco the most sustainable beach in Costa Rica.   Once the highway is complete it is clear that Jaco will become more and more of a quick getaway for those people in the city, only bolstering it's growth and development even more.