We compared the adult odonate communities in primary and secondary cloud forest sites at the Santa Elena Preserve in Monteverde, Costa Rica, during seven weekly visits from April to June 2023. There were no significant differences between primary and secondary forest sites in mean odonate abundance/site, mean abundance of each species/site, ACE incidence-based estimated species richness, or Chao estimated Shannon Diversity. Pairwise community similarity values were calculated among all sites and sites within forest types were no more similar than sites from different forests. Similarity was not correlated with horizontal or elevational distances between sites in partial correlations. Community composition did not vary between secondary and primary forest sites in NMDS and PERMANOVA analyses. The adult odonate communities in primary and secondary forests were nearly indistinguishable, suggesting a recovery of odonate communities in this abutting 30-year-old secondary forest.