Metropolitan Natural Park

This guide to Metropolitan Natural Park in Panama City opens with a jogger startled by a howler monkey's roar on the stone steps of Los Caobos, deep in a stretch of tropical dry forest the government protected in nineteen eighty-three and opened to the public in nineteen eighty-eight. It maps the park's seven marked trails, from the wheelchair-accessible Dorothy Wilson path to the early-morning Mono Titi route named for its squirrel monkeys, and considers how a capital city grew right up to the rainforest's edge. Go early, before the heat sets in, to catch a troop moving through the canopy before you see it.