Virgin Islands National Park · U.S. Virgin Islands

Cinnamon Bay Trail

0.7 mi of trail, end to end · about 800 ft of climbing · 55 ft–854 ft · hiking

55 ft 854 ft · 0.7 mi high 854 ft

Trailhead Cinnamon Bay Trail 71 ft Drive there

Cinnamon Bay Trails the Park Service's write-up

15-30 Minutes · dogs allowed

Start Cinnamon Bay Ruins

Cinnamon Bay Self Guided Trail

Meander through the ruins of the historic Cinnamon Bay Sugar Plantation. Smell the scent of the leaves from the bay rum trees, which were once used to make the famous St John Bay Rum Cologne. The boardwalk and nature loop are located across the road from the entrance to the Cinnamon Bay Campground. The nature loop is an easy 0.5 mile hike.

For a more adventurous hike, try the strenuous 1 mile Cinnamon Bay Trail which begins east of the ruins. Hike uphill through a shaded forest filled with several tall trees including mango, genip, guava berry, kapok, and mammee apple. There is a 0.38 mile spur off of this trail leading to the ruins of a great house known as America Hill. This trail ends at Centerline Road.

Accessibility Parts of Cinnamon Bay Loop are accessible. There is a boardwalk that meanders through the ruins suitable for strollers and wheel chairs.

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About this trail's facts

The lines are the National Park Service's public trails layer, the trailheads and the waterfalls, views, peaks and historic places along them the Service's public points of interest, read 2026-10-16 and simplified for the map; the length is the line's, end to end. The write-ups are the Service's own "things to do" text, unedited. Heights come from USGS 3DEP through Terrain Tiles on AWS (Mapzen/Tilezen), read along each line and rounded; a short trail on steep ground can be off by a few tens of feet. Closures change: check the park's own site before you go.