Hello everyone, and happy Wednesday! Here is a quick update on what’s happening over at Caneel Bay.
Back in May, I told you how the National Park planned to open Caneel Bay beach to the public. This was a big announcement, as we were all somewhat discouraged from using this beach while the resort was open. Caneel Bay beach is the beach that you see down to the right from the Caneel overlook. It’s located in front of numerous shuttered hotel rooms and ZoZo’s restaurant.
Well, unfortunately, this has yet to happen. At the time, the Park’s latest superintendent said she was waiting for restrooms to arrive. I am not certain if that has happened yet, but the beach remains closed from the land. It is accessible by water only, as are all of the beaches in the US Virgin Islands.
The shuttle to Honeymoon beach is still running. The shuttle only runs from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. currently. I am sure those hours will expand later in the year when season resumes. The shuttle is $6 per person, per way.
You still are unable to walk through the resort. You can walk the Lind Point trail to Salomon and Honeymoon beaches, but you are not allowed to walk beyond that. And on the reverse, you are not allowed to walk from the Caneel Bay entrance to Honeymoon like you were able to do in the past. Hopefully this changes soon, as well.
For those of you who are on island now or will be soon, you will notice that the remnants of the sugar plantation have been cleared over the past couple of months. Things are definitely happening over at Caneel. They’re just happening on island time. 🙂
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Good morning. Can you please clarify what you mean by the remnants of the sugar mill have been cleared? Thank you.
Sure thing! They were extremely overgrown for years. The National park went in and cleaned that up. They cleared the overgrowth, so you can now see the structures more easily.
Thought I’d see much more frequent progress updates on NPS website. Solicit proposals to manage the resort now, instead of “a future yet undetermined date”, to evaluate sooner. Environmental safety issues should have been resolved by now. Seems the prior manager, no matter how disliked, is best suited to reconstruct and re-open the resort ASAP with its turn-key knowledge. NPS seems lost, people are waiting for jobs. Will it be 3 years before it reopens? NPS, full speed ahead (pretty please) !.