Drunk Bay
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Drunk Bay is a rocky beach in Virgin Islands National Park on St. John's south shore, just east of Salt Pond Bay and north of Ram Head. Park at the Salt Pond Bay lot beyond Coral Bay, which the VITRAN bus serves, walk the short trail down to Salt Pond Bay, then follow the park's easy 0.25-mile Drunk Bay Trail. Friends of Virgin Islands National Park, which ran a cleanup here in October 2026, told volunteers the bay is rocky and to wear comfortable shoes and bring water and sun protection. The park's pages describe swimming and snorkeling at Salt Pond Bay but say nothing about the water at Drunk Bay. No facilities are listed at the bay; vault toilets and picnic tables are at Salt Pond. Cell service is limited. There is no fee and no lifeguard is listed, and pets and glass are not allowed on park beaches.
Services
- No fee
- Drunk Bay Trail, rated easy, 0.25 mile from Salt Pond Bay
- Parking and a VITRAN bus stop at the Salt Pond Bay lot
- Rocky shore; the park gives no swimming or snorkeling information
- No facilities at the bay; vault toilets and picnic tables at Salt Pond Bay
- Drones allowed only with the park superintendent's written approval
How we checked
Last verified on October 30, 2026. We checked it against the sources below.
Source: National Park Service pages https://www.nps.gov/places/salt-pond-bay.htm (updated April 5, 2021; the easy 0.25-mile Drunk Bay Trail, the trail from the lot to Salt Pond Bay, swimming and snorkeling at Salt Pond, its vault toilets, picnic tables, parking and bus stop), https://www.nps.gov/viis/planyourvisit/gettingaround.htm (updated December 10, 2024; VITRAN route to Salt Pond Bay, limited cell service at beaches), https://www.nps.gov/viis/planyourvisit/fees.htm (updated September 29, 2026; no entrance fee, only Trunk Bay charges), https://www.nps.gov/viis/learn/management/compendium.htm (updated October 6, 2026; pets and glass banned on beaches, drones only with the superintendent's written approval) and the park alerts feed https://www.nps.gov/viis/park-alerts-viis.json (no closures posted); Friends of Virgin Islands National Park, https://friendsvinp.org/beach-clean-up/ (Drunk Bay coastal cleanup from the Salt Pond parking lot in October 2026; 'Drunk Bay is rocky'); St. John Source, April 16, 2025, https://stjohnsource.com/2025/04/16/earth-day-events-with-friends-of-virgin-islands-national/ (marine-debris cleanup on Drunk Bay beach); all accessed 2026-10-30. Travel guides describe Drunk Bay as unsafe for swimming, but no park or government source says so, so the entry states only that the park gives no swimming information. Map point: GNIS feature 1613886 (Bay, 'Drunk Bay'); GNIS has no Beach feature here. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System, Virgin Islands file published September 29, 2026, https://prd-tnm.s3.amazonaws.com/StagedProducts/GeographicNames/DomesticNames/DomesticNames_VI_Text.zip, accessed 2026-10-30.
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