National Park Service · Virgin Islands National Park · VI
Cinnamon Bay Beach and Campground
1Heads uppark alert
Caution
Trail Conditions Rain may cause trails to be slick and overgrown. Staff and Volunteer Trail Crews clear trails regularly. Visitors should use caution and report trail issues to viis_interpretation@nps.gov
Alerts: National Park Service alerts API · Oct 16, 2026
First come, first servedNo reservation, and none to be had: all 121 sites go to whoever pulls in first.
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- Sites
- 121All of them walk-up
Photos · National Park Service
40 ftElevation
1,841 ftWater · an unnamed pondOcean · 784 ft
35.3 miE of Culebra, PR
90%Tree cover
Bortle 4Night sky · 0.29 mcd/m²
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
The campground offers bare tent sites, eco-tents, and cottages. Amenities include restrooms, showers, food and beverage service, watersports rentals, beach wheelchairs, and more.
Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets - seasonal
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Amenities include restrooms, showers, food and beverage service, watersports rentals, beach wheelchairs, and more.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- Dump station
- Yes
Source: National Park Service and agency records
Water, toilets and showers: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first. Get there before noon on a summer weekend.
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
Every line of the receipt · 3
What you actually pay
The sign priceNational Park Service
The National Park Service publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.
The booking feerecreation.gov
Nothing. This campground takes no bookings, so there’s no reservation fee to pay.
What a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s no total to show.
How we know this receipt · 4
Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026
The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026
Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026
The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025
Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026
rules read Sep 7, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Coordinate18.35231, -64.75408
The mapSee it on the map
The driveDirections ↗
The phone(340) 714-7144
The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗
Where it is
Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
Today88°Sunny4% rain
Tonight80°Isolated Rain Showers10% rain
Saturday84°Isolated Rain Showers20% rain
Saturday Night80°Scattered Rain Showers40% rain
NWS forecast for Cruz Bay, VI
Source: National Weather Service, SJU forecast office · Oct 16, 2026
Typical weather
Typical October night 78°F, day 88°F.
100°60°
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more
A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Augusts are colder than the August line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
Measured at: CHARLOTTE AMALIE AP, VI (VQW00011640), 14 miles away and at about the same elevation
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Cinnamon Bay Beach and Campground is in U.S. Virgin Islands’s 98th congressional district. Whoever holds it votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. See how its representative votes on public lands →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: National Park Service publishes no season and no closure for this campground, and it takes no bookings we can read. That’s a gap in the record and not a locked gate: the number below is the only way to be sure.
Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026
Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate · Sep 9, 2026
Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate: 0.29 mcd/m² of artificial all-sky glow · Sep 8, 2026
Cell signal: the Park Service’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.
Nearest place of any size: Cruz Bay, VI, 1.4 mi NE (a census designated place). Straight line.