Puerto Plata Surf Report & Forecast

The westernmost spot in the Amber Coast’s main surf zone, Puerto Plata is the island’s marquee big wave. Located smack dab in a developed town with a bustling tourist scene, a large shipping channel cuts through the reef to reveal two different spots: La Puntilla, which does a marvelous job of making sense of mixed-up Atlantic swells and turning them into peaky rights and lefts; and Puerto Plata, affectionately dubbed POP by locals. On a giant N-NE swell, this formidable righthander is capable o... Read more