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.
Three miles down to the beach from the trailhead near mile marker 5 on Centerline Road, past Danish sugar plantation ruins, stone cattle-grazing walls, pre-Columbian Taino rock carvings and some of the oldest and tallest trees on St. John. NPS describes it as strenuous, with steep, uneven, and rocky terrain and a long uphill return; check current trail conditions directly with NPS before setting out.
A marked network of spurs and loops behind the National Park visitor center in Cruz Bay on St. John, running out to the Cruz Bay Overlook, Salomon Beach and Honeymoon Beach. The path is narrow and rocky, and hikers pick up an NPS parking pass at the visitor center.
An old dirt road runs the quarter mile from the parking area to Salt Pond Bay beach, inside Virgin Islands National Park on St. John. The Ram Head trail itself is just under a mile, a narrow path that climbs to the top.
Two-thirds of St. John is national park. Trails lead to historic plantation sites and to ancient petroglyphs made by the Indigenous Taino, and visitors snorkel the coral reefs inside the park. Reaching it means a flight to St. Thomas and a ferry across.
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.
A 501(c)(3) founded in 1988 that partners with Virgin Islands National Park and the Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monument on St. John to protect their terrestrial and marine resources. The public can join trail work, snorkeling, sea turtle volunteering and the Annaberg Cultural Program, and the group keeps a shop at the park Visitor Center in Cruz Bay.