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Buck Island Reef National Monument off St. Croix combines an underwater snorkeling trail and elkhorn-coral reefs with beaches and dry-forest trails on a 176-acre island. It is reached only by boat, with concession trips from Christiansted Wharf or Green Cay Marina. Ask whether your chosen trip includes the water or land activities you want.
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Attractions
Buck Island Reef National Monument off St. Croix combines an underwater snorkeling trail and elkhorn-coral reefs with beaches and dry-forest trails on a 176-acre island. It is reached only by boat, with concession trips from Christiansted Wharf or Green Cay Marina. Ask whether your chosen trip includes the water or land activities you want.
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Boat Charters
Private charters on a Robertson and Caine Leopard 47 catamaran, all of them leaving from St. Croix. Itineraries reach Virgin Gorda in the British Virgin Islands, and the boat carries a swim ladder for snorkeling and swimming.
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Restaurants
The Virgin Islands Coffee Roasters cafe at 1102 King's Wharf in Christiansted, St. Croix, set inside the King Christian Hotel with espresso served in an indoor dining room. The company's roastery and self-serve retail shop are on St. Thomas.
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Tours & Activities
Guided ATV and UTV rainforest tours out of 276 Custom House Street East in Frederiksted, St. Croix, running 16 miles across coast, rainforest, mountaintops and historic ruins. The machines are US-made Polaris ATVs with automatic transmissions, and the first tour ran in 2009. Confirm the departure time and the meeting point when you book.
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Shopping & Provisions
Vodka distilled from breadfruit at Sion Farm Distillery in Christiansted, St. Croix. The distillery holds a bar and tasting room with a glass wall onto the copper still, and tours are given to walk-in guests.
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Boat Charters
A dive shop on Strand Street in Christiansted, St. Croix, open since July 1998, running trips to a wall, a reef, a wreck and a pier. West shore dives leave from the Frederiksted Pier.
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Tours & Activities
The Taste of Twin City Food Tour is this St. Croix operator's main outing, a one to one-and-a-half-mile walk with six tastings. A traditional Crucian lunch is part of it, along with one alcoholic and one non-alcoholic drink tasting.
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Hotels & Stays
An oceanfront resort at 5001 Tamarind Reef in Christiansted, St. Croix, where rooms come with a balcony or patio. The waterfront spa offers massage and botanical body wraps, the Deep End Bar & Grill is poolside, and charter boats leave the marina for Buck Island Reef National Monument.
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Restaurants
The dining room of the Sand Castle on the Beach hotel on Veterans Shore Drive in Frederiksted, St. Croix, set on an open-air seaside terrace. The menu runs from traditional dishes to local island specialties, and the bar pours local draft beer, wine and spirits.
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Boat Charters
Big Beard’s full-day Buck Island trip departs downtown Christiansted and combines beach time, guided snorkeling and a barbecue stop. Boats may change. Cruise passengers are asked to call before reserving, so check the trip against your ship’s deadline.
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Beaches
Cane Bay is on St. Croix’s North Shore Road, with the Cane Bay Wall dive site offshore. A beach visit and a wall dive need different plans; seek local dive guidance and check water conditions rather than treating the offshore wall as a casual swim.
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Hotels & Stays
The Caravelle combines a hotel and a casino on one property at the water's edge, on the boardwalk in the historic district of Christiansted at 44A Queen Cross Street. It has been renovated.
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Boat Charters
A Christiansted charter operation on King Street, running half-day powerboat snorkel trips to Buck Island Reef, a national monument. It also runs sunset sails and cruises, fishing charters and private boat charters.
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Transportation
Cars, jeeps, SUVs, vans and trucks from three counters on St. Croix, one inside the Henry E. Rohlsen Airport terminal at baggage claim, one in Christiansted across from the seaplane dock and one mid-island at the La Reine light on Centerline Road. The company has been renting here since 1990.
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Attractions
A wooden boardwalk on the water in Christiansted, with harbor views over moored boats and shops and restaurants along it, including Brew STX and Shupe's. The wharf here is the center of the seven-acre Christiansted National Historic Site, which takes in Fort Christiansvaern and the Danish Customs House.
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Culture & History
Christiansted National Historic Site includes Fort Christiansvaern and waterfront grounds on St. Croix. NPS distinguishes the fort’s steps and uneven ground from wheelchair-accessible picnic, Scale House and visitor-center areas; plan for the specific part you want to visit.
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Beaches
A public park and beach on the north shore of St. Croix's East End, near Point Udall. Seagrape trees shade covered pavilions with picnic tables, grills, restrooms and paved parking, and camping is permitted. The water falls inside the Recreational Zone of the St. Croix East End Marine Park.
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Tours & Activities
Horseback rides on St. Croix that run along the beach, into the water of the Caribbean Sea, and through rainforest shaded by giant Saman trees. A small family-run operation going since 2013, all of it on rehabilitated rescue horses. Confirm the ride time and the meeting point when you book.
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A rum distillery at Estate Diamond in Frederiksted on St. Croix, where the rum is made with water drawn from tropical aquifers. The tour is mostly outdoors and crosses uneven ground at a working production facility.
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Shopping & Provisions
The St. Croix studio of textile designer Debbie Sun, who turns her original silk paintings into textile designs and wearable art. She holds the designation Official Designer of the US Virgin Islands Madras. The listing stays island-wide because a current physical storefront was not verified.
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Culture & History
A twelve-acre St. Croix Landmarks Society site on Centerline Road at the west end of the island, where a colonial-era great house, laborers' quarters and mill factory complex still stand. Programming covers Crucian music, visual arts, food ways and customs, and there is a research library and archive on the grounds.
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Shopping & Provisions
A working jewelry studio and art gallery at 55 Company Street in Christiansted, St. Croix. Founded by jeweler and gemologist Nicole Gariepy, it turns natural gemstones and precious metals into one-of-a-kind and small-batch pieces made on the island.
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Hotels & Stays
Rooms and suites on Protestant Cay, an islet in Christiansted Harbor on St. Croix, reached by ferry from the Christiansted waterfront. The cay has a white sand beach, and the hotel has a beach bar.
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Hotels & Stays
A hotel at King's Wharf on the Christiansted waterfront, facing the harbor next to the Christiansted National Historic Site. Studios, standards, balcony superiors and one-bedroom suites, the boardwalk at the door, and a private dock where a water taxi crosses to the Cay beach.
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