STX Hiking

Hello Pat,

Former Ohio Guy has posted about several of his hiking adventures on St. Croix... do a search for them. (The search option is at the top of the message board...) Hopefully he will log on and help out with some suggestions... perhaps you both could meet up for some hiking.

--Islander

From Point Udall down to Jack & Isaac's Bays and maybe over to Grapetree.

Dunno if it's the *best* trail, but NO ONE is ever down there and it's pretty and beachy.

VB

pat-in-vt,

Which tidal pools did you see, the ones at Annaly Bay or Wills Bay? Annaly Bay is the one reached by an extremely steep dirt road and trail, then you climb down the rocks, while Wills Bay is the one past the gentle sloping valley with swaying guinea grass and a sugar mill is at the top of the trail.

There are a lot of places like the one you saw last weekend, so I really don't know what to recommend. My advice is to go to the Scale House in Christiansted (it's next door to the fort) and get a book called Exploring St. Croix by Shirley Imsand and Richard Philibosian. It's loaded with information on remote natural and historical sites that I suspect many of the locals don't know about. We have all the beauty of St. John here. The thing is, you usually have to hike half an hour along a steep or overgrown path to get to them.

Yes, Issac and Jack bay are worth seeing. You can park at Cramer's Park, walk east a couple hundred feet, and start up a dirt road on the hill by the telescope. The trails are well marked. You have the option of going to the top of Sugarloaf Mountain, where you get an excellent view of much of St. Croix. Another option is to park just before the monument at East Point and go to the southeast beaches, but you can't do the mountain from there.

Point Udall is worth seeing. Many people seem to think that the monument is Point Udall, but that is actually East Point or Kid Peak. Point Udall is the rocky outcropping you look down on that is the extreme eastern tip of St. Croix. There are several trails that lead down there, and it is worth the short hike down. Those waves look very different up close than from far away on the monument.

Sorry, in the previous post I meant Sugarloaf Hill, not Sugarloaf Mountain.

Hey FOG, Why not plan a hike and invite some newbies along? I mentioned to my DH that you were quite the out and about type of hiker and he said we should just invite ourselves along.

Hey guys,
Thanks for the advice...maybe we should all get together for some hiking later this month. I've been so busy at the newspaper with Jeane, and I spent the last couple weeks pulling together info for a small package of stories for the 15th anniversary of Hugo (which you can check out in tomorrow's Daily News), so I'm sick of storms. Looking forward to the return of sunshine and some remote places...

Pat