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Buck Island Reef National Monument
Fees & Reservations

There is no entry fee for Buck Island Reef National Monument.

Visitors will, however, need to pay a fee to official park concessionaires for boat access to the park.

Black and white rock layers along the shoreline  

Did You Know?
Six thousand feet long and a half mile wide, uninhabited Buck Island rises 328 feet above sea level 1.5 miles north of St. Croix. It is made up of sedimentary rock layers deposited in deep water approximately 60 million years ago then pushed up and tilted.

Last Updated: July 24, 2006 at 22:37 EST