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The OBC provides comfortable accommodations and research facilities for biological field courses, student groups, researchers, volunteers, conservation professionals and other visitors to the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica. The 4,200 acre Center is made up of the Piro Research Center, Greg Gund Conservation Center, and Cerro Arbolito Biological Outpost. The first two locations are campuses that are fully equipped to receive groups while Cerro Arbolito is a remote outpost providing researchers with basic accommodation and access to an interesting study site with sandy marine soil at over 300 meters in elevation.
Piro Research Center
  
Piro Research Center is our Costa Rican biological field station and has:
- Three cabins, each with three rooms and a bathroom (total capacity 36)
- Laboratory/classroom area
- Reference library
- Dining hall/common area
Staying here will give you quick access to mature rainforest as well as to the coastal habitat along the Pacific, making this campus ideal for researchers, field biology student groups, and sea turtle volunteers. See the OBC Trail Map for more detailed location information.
Greg Gund Conservation Center
  
The Greg Gund Conservation Center is an educational campus located on the Cerro Osa property. Here you have the option to stay in the bunk house or on a camping platform; no matter which you choose, you won't regret the breathtaking view looking west to Corcovado National Park and the Pacific Ocean.
- Bunkhouse with two bathrooms (total capacity 12-16)
- Three screened-in platforms (total capacity 12)
- Dining area
- Education Center (under construction)
The Cerro Osa property where this campus is located, is a 1,500 acre tract of land that is contiguous with the Piro Research Center property. You can get here either by walking the Cerro Osa trail or by car on the access road. While the Greg Gund Conservation Center isn't as close to pristine rainforest as the Piro Research Center, the land use history of Cerro Osa makes it an ideal location to study tropical forest regeneration since the forest directly surrounding the campus is recovering plantation. Learn more about Friends of the Osa's forest restortation efforts on Cerro Osa
Cerro Arbolito Biological Outpost
This outpost acts as the westernmost base on our properties and houses one of our land stewardship staff. Cerro Arbolito is a great base for biologists interested in studying the sandy marine soils that are particular to this area of the Osa Peninsula. It is not equipped to host groups and is only accessible on foot or by horse.
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