Salt River Bay National Historic Park and Ecological Preserve • Virgin Islands

View of the Salt River Bay Visitor Contact Station

View from the Salt River Bay Visitor Contact Station in the Bay

An aerial view of the Salt River Bay area.

Photograph of historic masonry well tower in the woods at Salt River.

SCUBA diver looking at the coral on the underwater canyon wall at Salt River

Salt River Bay National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve uniquely documents the human and natural Caribbean world from the earliest indigenous settlements in the central Caribbean to their clash with seven different colonial European powers to the present day.

View of the Salt River Bay Visitor Contact Station from below.
NPS Photo

Many visitors visit the Visitor Contact Station and view Salt River Bay from this scenic vista.
NPS Photo

Kayaking is a great way to see our mangroves and beaches!
S. Corsaut, Digital Island.

An aerial view of the Salt River Bay area.
NPS Photo

This brick and coral block masonry tower, built in the 1790s, used the power of wind to move water from Salt River to neighboring plantation estates.
NPS photo.