Puerto Rico
A grand, crisply renovated, colonnaded facade announces this engaging, well-curated museum. Its seven exhibition halls are dedicated to local heroes such as Ramón Emeterio Betances – the father of Puerto Rico's independence movement – and Roberto Confresí, a once notorious local pirate. It is within a park on the south side of the town of Cabo Rojo, just west of Hwy 312 and south of its intersection with Hwy 103.
Opening hours are erratic.
21.71 MILES
Sometimes a little piece of paradise lies in store in the least obvious of locales, and Gozalandia is San Sebastián's: a flurry of dramatic cascades,…
6.99 MILES
This small, squat building might not look like much from the outside, but it is actually one of the oldest surviving ecclesial buildings in the Americas…
Refugio de Vida Silvestre Iris L. Alameda Martínez de Boquerón
5.13 MILES
Drive south from Boquerón along Hwy 301 and you will arrive at the main entrance to this reserve at Km 1.1, an area encompassing beguiling mangrove forest…
10.23 MILES
From the same parking space as that of Los Morrillos Lighthouse, or from another further on down the track bending left from the lighthouse-approach track…
8.98 MILES
This brilliant, bold art space is the best museum west of Ponce. Opened in 2016, it focuses on work by Puerto Rican and Latin American artists from the…
20.45 MILES
Well worth stopping off at on your way elsewhere, this ornate mint-green turn-of-the-century edifice has been impressively refurbished to grace San…
29.76 MILES
Even the surfers rarely make it to remote Playa Survival, best reached by a 45-minute walk west from Playa Shacks. The narrow strip of sand found…
11.44 MILES
The once-glittering waters of Bahía de Fosforescente remain by far La Parguera’s biggest draw, but the environmental impact of boat tours and developments…
3.74 MILES
Just offshore, the tiny Isla de Ratones has a white sandy beach and is great for snorkeling. All local operators, including Adventures Tourmarine, will…
3.96 MILES
Playa Buyé is a small palm-fringed beach that’s about 3 miles north of Boquerón off Hwy 307. It's got a distinctly more wild, timeless and paradisaical…
3. Reserva Natural Laguna de Joyuda
4.53 MILES
The heart of Playa de Joyuda's 300-acre Reserva Natural Laguna de Joyuda is a sizeable saltwater lagoon with a depth that rarely exceeds 4ft. The…
4.57 MILES
Fanning out immediately south of Boquerón town, the Balneario Boquerón arguably ranks among the best public beach facilities in Puerto Rico. The mile-long…
4.8 MILES
The Refugio de Boquerón is the western outpost of the Bosque Estatal de Boquerón, a 400-acre patch of mangrove wetlands that mostly spreads south of…
6. Refugio de Vida Silvestre Iris L. Alameda Martínez de Boquerón
5.13 MILES
Drive south from Boquerón along Hwy 301 and you will arrive at the main entrance to this reserve at Km 1.1, an area encompassing beguiling mangrove forest…
5.5 MILES
This lake, popular for fishing, abuts a tract of Refugio de Vida Silvestre Iris L. Alameda Martínez de Boquerón. It's accessed by a long straight track…
6.32 MILES
Founded in 1912, this university is now the largest private facility of its kind in the western hemisphere. The 267-acre campus just west of San Germán is…