Salt River Bay NHP&EP Visitor Contact Station Closed for Season
We are only open on Thursdays through the 6th of June 2013!
9AM-4:30PM From June 06-November 14, 2013 the Visitor Contact
Station at Salt River Bay will be closed. It can be opened by
appointment. Call 340-773-1460 for more information. History &
Culture Salt River Bay National Historical Park and Ecological
Preserve was created in 1992 as part of the National Park
System. The National Park Service and the Government of the
United States Virgin Islands jointly manage this 1,015-acre
park. The area’s blend of sea and land holds some of the largest
remaining mangrove forests in the Virgin Islands, as well as
coral reefs and a submarine canyon. Salt River Bay’s natural
history, its vitally important ecosystem of mangroves, estuary,
coral reefs, and submarine canyon, has witnessed thousands of
years of human endeavor. Every major period of human habitation
in the Virgin Islands is represented: several South American
Indian cultures, the 1493 encounte