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St. John
A nighttime walking tour through Cruz Bay on St. John, about a mile on mostly even ground, built on ghost stories, local legends and folklore. Walkers are handed ghost hunting equipment along the way. Confirm the date and the meeting point when you book.
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Tours & Activities
A nighttime walking tour through Cruz Bay on St. John, about a mile on mostly even ground, built on ghost stories, local legends and folklore. Walkers are handed ghost hunting equipment along the way. Confirm the date and the meeting point when you book.
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Beaches
White sand under palm and seagrape trees inside Virgin Islands National Park on St. John. A reef runs east toward Caneel Bay, with elkhorn and pillar coral off the rocky point. The trail in starts at the park sign off North Shore Road, and there is a kayak launch, picnic tables and parking.
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Tours & Activities
The St. John side of a private Jeep and UTV tour operator, advertising pickup at the Cruz Bay ferry dock and St. John hotels or villas. Its published options include full-day and half-day island tours. Confirm the pickup point, start and return times, vehicle capacity and availability directly before you book.
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Shopping & Provisions
Apparel designed and screen printed on St. John, using non-toxic water-based ink, from a shop at Mongoose Junction in Cruz Bay.
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Tours & Activities
Clear-bottom kayaks paddled after dark from The Westin St. John Resort Villas on Chocolate Hole Road. The route crosses clear water where paddlers look for tarpon and stingrays, then a darker stretch the operator calls Pirate Waters, about 45 minutes on the water and 30 on land.
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Transportation
Locally owned and operating since 1974, off the dock in Cruz Bay on St. John. The fleet is automatic four-wheel-drive Jeeps and SUVs, including Jeep Wranglers, Jeep Cherokees and Nissan Pathfinders.
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Culture & History
An original photography gallery at 505 Mongoose Junction in Cruz Bay, St. John, specializing in metal prints. Two St. John residents started it, and everything on show was shot by the owner and his father.
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Hotels & Stays
An inn at 277 Contant & Enighed in Cruz Bay on St. John, with standard rooms and suites that come either with or without a kitchenette. There is a pool and a grilling area on the property.
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Shopping & Provisions
At the Cruz Bay people ferry dock on St. John since 1999, stocking spices, rubs and hot sauces alongside art prints, books, clothing and souvenirs. A live webcam runs from the shop.
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Transportation
The membership association of St. John taxi drivers, working from a stand where a dispatcher hands out trips. The National Park Service points arriving visitors to the taxis at the Ferry Terminal, and fares are set by the VI Taxicab Commission rather than by individual drivers. Confirm the fare with the driver before you set off.
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Nightlife & Bars
St. John Brewers pours its own bottles, cans and drafts on the second floor of Mongoose Junction in Cruz Bay, St. John, alongside a pub-style food menu. The brewery's production and hospitality center is at Contant on St. Thomas.
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Hotels & Stays
A 47-acre resort at Chocolate Hole on Great Cruz Bay, St. John, with a private beach and a marina. Rooms run from studios to two-bedroom lofts and three-bedroom villas, and on site there is a main pool with whirlpool spa, lighted tennis courts, a fitness studio and a spa.
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Tours & Activities
Kayak, snorkel, hike and combination tours inside Virgin Islands National Park, leaving from Honeymoon Beach at Caneel Bay on St. John. Routes take in Maho Bay's seagrass, Coral Bay, Salt Pond and Drunk Bay, and the meeting beach is a one-mile walk from Cruz Bay along the Lind Point Trail.
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Boat Charters
A St. John charter agency at 5000 Estate Enighed that arranges trips through independent partner operators rather than running its own boats. The listed trips are day and overnight runs in the USVI and BVI for up to twelve guests.
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Restaurants
Fresh seafood and hand-rolled sushi at Mongoose Junction in Cruz Bay, St. John, with the dining room set inside the complex itself.
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Culture & History
Quarters of enslaved people, the sugar factory, the animal mill and the windmill still stand at Annaberg, looking out over the surrounding hillsides and Leinster Bay on St. John. Interpretation covers the global sugar market that drove slavery and colonialism in the Virgin Islands. The National Park Service also publishes 3D reconstructions of the structures through its Atlantic Slave Trade Project.
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Transportation
A vehicle-rental and taxi company at 171 Contant Enighed on St. John, which picks renters up in Cruz Bay.
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Shopping & Provisions
An art gallery, bookstore, cafe and rum and wine bar in one space at Mongoose Junction in Cruz Bay, St. John, going more than thirty years. Aged rums are poured in tasting flights, and the shop carries traditional Virgin Islands market baskets and other handmade work. It also hosts exhibitions, readings and book signings.
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Hotels & Stays
Six stand-alone villas share a mountaintop on Route 108, St. John, four of them with two bedrooms and two with one. The outlook takes in the east end of St. John and the British Virgin Islands, and there is a shared pool and spa complex.
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Culture & History
One of the few sites on St. John where a plantation windmill still stands, a Danish colonial period ruin reached by the rough road that runs up to it.
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Hotels & Stays
Cinnamon Bay on St. John’s North Shore offers bare campsites, eco-tents and cottages with direct beach access. For a beach day, the operator lists Rain Tree Cafe meals, a lunch food truck and rentals of snorkel gear, paddleboards, kayaks and chairs. Confirm your chosen accommodation or day-use services before travelling.
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Culture & History
Taino people settled Cinnamon Bay before Danish colonists built a sugar plantation worked by enslaved Africans, and a half-mile boardwalk loop now runs through its ruins from the beach parking lot on St. John's North Shore Road. The one-mile Cinnamon Bay Trail climbs from east of the ruins to Centerline Road, with a 0.38-mile spur to the America Hill great house.
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Shopping & Provisions
Elaine Estern's working watercolor studio and gallery at 264 Tobacco Road on Frank Bay, just outside Cruz Bay on St. John. Her signature paintings show a scene above and below the waterline at once, and she paints the view from her own front porch. Prints, framed tile murals, notecards and gifts are for sale.
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Hotels & Stays
Studio, two-bedroom and three-bedroom waterfront condominium suites at 268 Estate Enighed on St. John, each with a full kitchen and a large oceanfront patio. Two buildings enclose a pool and patio between the Caribbean Sea on one side and an Audubon wildlife pond on the other.
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