Salt River Bay National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve
National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve · VI
Park Closure · Visitor Center Closed
The Salt River Bay NHP&EP Visitor Contact station remains closed due to damage caused by Hurricanes Irma/Maria. Reconstruction of the Visitor Contact Station continues.
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.
- NPS site
- nps.gov/sari
- Location
- Salt River Bay National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve (17.779, -64.755)
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- Salt River Bay NHP & EP
Hours
Salt River Bay Visitor Contact Stationclosed today
- Sat Oct 3Closed
- Sun Oct 4Closed
- Mon Oct 5Closed
- Tue Oct 6Closed
- Wed Oct 7Closed
- Thu Oct 8Closed
- Fri Oct 9Closed
Due to damage suffered from Hurricane Maria, the Salt River Bay NHP&EP Visitor Center is closed. For information about Salt River Bay - its history and natural environment - please visit the Visitor Center at Fort Christiansvaern, Christiansted National Historic Site. For tours, please call the Interpretation Division at 340.773.1460.
Hours are retrieved from the National Park Service and can change without notice — check the official site before you go.
Visitor centers
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- Salt River Bay NHP & EPclosed todayDirections
Self-guided tours
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Salt River Bay: Generations on the Shore15–25 minutes · 6 stops
This stationary, self-guided tour is designed to be enjoyed from the Salt River Bay Visitor Center, where many of the locations discussed can be seen across the landscape. For thousands of years, people came to Salt River Bay seeking opportunity, security, and a better future. Indigenous families built villages here. Explorers, settlers, laborers, merchants, sailors, and soldiers followed, each leaving their mark. Today, the bay stands as a place where thousands of years of human stories come together.
The Taino at Salt River Bay5–15 minutes · 5 stops
Explore the history, culture, and legacy of the Taíno people at Salt River Bay through this self-guided virtual tour. From migration across the Caribbean to ceremony, daily life, and early encounters with Europeans, this experience brings the landscape to life through images, reconstructions, artifacts, and storytelling. The archaeological sites featured in this tour can be viewed from the Salt River Visitor Center, but most are not directly accessible from the visitor center itself.
Entrance fees
No entrance fee.