Puerto Rico · North coast

Dorado

North-coast resort and beach town 30 minutes west of San Juan — the easiest north-coast escape from the metro.

Dorado is the Puerto Rico north-coast town 30 minutes west of San Juan, combining public-coast beach access (Playa Dorado, Manuel Morales Beach) with gated golf-resort communities (Dorado Beach Reserve and the Ritz-Carlton Reserve). The municipality runs as a hybrid of working north-coast town and resort-tourism destination — the resort properties draw a specific weekender crowd while the town proper runs at local-PR pace. For visiting JRCM-registered patients on a temporary registration staying in residential rentals or resort properties, Dorado offers a structured north-coast weekend within practical reach of the SJ-metro JRCM-licensed dispensary network. At-home use only at the rental; public-consumption rules apply throughout the municipality, including on all the beaches and at the resort common areas.