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Map of Virgin Islands National Park. The island of St. John is roughly oval but with deeply eroded sides, especially to the east where fingers of land reach around Coral Bay in a C shape. Most of the island is shaded dark green but a few areas are a lighter shade, sites are labeled with black or brown text, and the ocean is in bluet.

Extended Description

The Visitor Center is on the west edge of the island near Lind Point. This description will start there and work along the northern coastline from west to east before returning east to west along the southern coastline.

The westernmost tip of the island is enclosed in a rectangle with text reading “See Lind Point detail map.” This area contains the visitor center, which has a ranger station and restrooms; Lind Point Trail; Caneel Hill Trail; NPS dock, US Customs; Police; Ferry dock; and Car ferry Enighed Pond.

North Shore Road departs from the visitor center and travels near the northern coastline about halfway across the island. Sites on the northwest shoulder of the island include Tamarind Trail; Water Catchment Trail; Hawksnest Bay, which has a picnic area with pit toilet and restrooms; a Historic District and windmill ruins at Peace Hill; self-guiding Underwater Trail; Trunk Bay with a picnic area with pit toilet, restaurant and/or snack bar, restrooms, and wheelchair access; and Cinnamon Bay Historic District, which has wheelchair access, restaurant and/or snack bar, a campground, and restrooms. Natural features along this same stretch are Henly Cay; Ramgoat Cay; Turtle Bay; Hawksnest Point; Hawksnest Bay; Perkins Cay; Denis Bay; Jumbie Beach; Johnsons Reef, the southern three-fourths of which are noted as a grounding hazard; Trunk Cay; Windswept Reef; Little Cinnamon Bay Beach; Cinnamon Bay; and America Point. A network of self-guided trails in the Cinnamon Bay Historic District leads to plantation ruins and connects to the Cinnamon Bay Trail which intersects Centerline Road.

Now about halfway across the northern shoreline, Mary Point, which encompasses the island’s northernmost point, juts out into the ocean in a T-shape. Sites around the perimeter here include a site with restrooms and a picnic area with a pit toilet on Maho Bay; Maho Point; a Historic District on Francis Bay with restrooms, wheelchair access, and a picnic area with a pit toilet; Francis Bay Trail; Whistling Cay, separated by the western end of Mary Point by Fungi Passage; Anna Point, at the eastern tip of Mary Point; and Annaberg School (ruins) on Mary Creek.

The final sites along the northern shoreline are Annaberg Historic District and Sugar Mill (ruins), with wheelchair access, a self-guiding trail, and restrooms; Leinster Bay Trail, which is a Network to Freedom Site; and Johnny Horn Trail along Leinster Bay. Watermelon Cay, Leinster Point, the plantation ruins of Murphy Great House (accessible via a spur of Johnny Horn Trail), Threadneedle Point; Brown Bay with plantation ruins; Brown Bay Trail; Hermitage Historic District, which has plantation ruins; Mennebeck Bay; and Gowed Point round off the easternmost end of the park boundary on St. John.

The island thins here into a series of long finger-like formations reaching south between Borck Creek, Princess Bay, Otter Creek, Water Creek, Elk Bay, and Haulover Bay. Mardenboro Point is between Borck Creek and Princess Bay, and Turner Point is between Water Creek and Elk Bay. Connected by a thin bridge of land, the three-lobed East End, located outside the park, is shaded light green and surrounded with bays and coral reefs, including Newfound Bay, East End Bay, Privateer Point, Privateer Bay, Red Point, Pond Bay, Long Point, and Round Bay, which includes Limetree Cove, Hansen Bay, and Long Bay.

Now shifting down along the inside of the C shape on the western edge of the main landmass are Palestina; Popilleau Bay; Fortsberg, with a height of 426 feet (130 meters); Harbor Point; the town of Coral Bay; Emmaus Moravian Church; Carolina, which has windmill ruins. Sites outside the park boundary include Coral Harbor; Sanders Bay; Johnson Bay; Lagoon Point; Calabash Boom; Friis Bay; Sabbat Point; Sabbat Channel; Johns Folly; Johns Folly Bay; Nanny Point; and Leduck Island.

Back in the park boundary and continuing south along a narrow sliver of land at the southernmost point of the island are Saltpond Bay, which has a picnic area with pit toilet and restrooms; Drunk Bay Trail; Drunk Bay; Salt Pond; Ram Head; Ram Head Trail; Saltpond Bay; and Saltpond Bay Trail; Booby Rock is meanwhile a short distance south of Saltpond Bay.

Continuing west along the southern coastline are Kiddel Point; Kiddel Bay; Grootpan Bay; Cabritte Horn Point; Tektite Trail; Great Lameshur Bay; Virgin Islands Environmental Resource Station (VIERS); Yawzi Point Trail; Lameshur Historic District, with a picnic area with a pit toilet and restrooms; Little Lameshur Bay; Bordeaux Mountain Trail, with other plantation ruins nearby; Lameshur Bay Trail; Europa Bay; White Cliffs; Reeb Bay Sugar Mill (ruins) Historic District, which has a self-guiding trail and restrooms; the town of Reef Bay; and Genti Bay.

Now about halfway across the southern shoreline, the coloring of the park shifts to the paler, non-park green after Cocoloba Cay and Cocoloba Point as the landscape continues west with Fish Bay, Dittlif Point, Klein Bay, Monte Bay, Boatman Point, Rendezvous Bay, Hart Bay, Bovocoap Point, Devers Bay, Chocolate Hole, Maria Bluff, and Great Cruz Bay before a return to the town of Cruz Bay.

Sites across the middle of the island from west to east include Community Health Clinic Emergency Care and Hospital; Susannaberg windmill ruin; Catherineberg Sugar Mill windmill ruins and Historic District; L’Esperance Historic District, with other plantation ruins; L’Esperance Trail, which leads to plantation ruins at Sieben; the self-guiding Reef Bay Trail; Petroglyphs, with plantation ruins; Petroglyph Trail; Par Force plantation ruins; and Reef Bay Great House plantation ruins.

Blue lines indicate the limits of Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monument along the northeastern and southern water boundaries of the park, and much of the coastline is edged in pink, representing coral reefs. The Cruz Bay – West End Ferry and Cruz Bay – Road Town Ferry lines travel up and over St. John to United Kingdom territories, passing Great Thatch Island, Little Thatch Island, and Frenchman Ca before reaching the island of Tortola in the upper right corner of the map. The Cruz Bay – Red Hook Ferry (20 minutes) and Cruz Bay – Charlotte Amalie Ferry (45 minutes) lines also travel west past Steven Cay to the island of St. Thomas. Great St James Island, Little St James Island, and Dog Island lie south of the ferry lines. Another string of islands off the northwest corner of St. John includes, from east to west, Carval Rock, Congo Cay, Lovango Cay, Mingo Cay, Grass Cay, and Thatch Cay.

Legend

A scale in the lower right corner of the map measures distances of 1 kilometer and 1 mile. Three columns of symbols below represent Ranger station, Picnic area with pit toilet, Restaurant and/or snack bar, Self-guiding trail, Wheelchair-accessible, Campground, Restrooms, Windmill ruins, and Other plantation ruins.

The legend continues as follows:

Black dashed line for Trail,

White line encased in double black lines for Unpaved road (4-wheel-drive vehicles may be needed; check locally for conditions),

Medium green for National Park Service land,

Medium green shading around darker green for NPS boundary (private land exists within boundary), and

Pink for Coral reef.

The bold black text below reads, “A user fee is charged at Trunk Bay.”

Two notes in red text follow:

For safe boating, use NOAA nautical charts 25641 and 25647. These charts show navigational aids like markers and buoys, and hazardous areas in detail. Do not use this map for navigation.

NO-ANCHOR ZONE: Anchoring is prohibited in the park except in designated anchorages at Francis Bay, Lind Point, and Cruz Bay. No overnight anchoring in Cruz Bay. No anchoring is allowed in the monument. Over 200 mooring buoys have been installed in the bays around St. John.