Cinnamon Bay Trail

Cinnamon Bay Trail is a strenuous climb on a historic road from east of the Sugar Plantation ruins to Centerline Road. The route is about 1 mile each way, so walking up and back the same line makes a 2-mile outing with roughly 700–800 feet of climbing. Allow about 1½–2 hours. The opening stretch is the steepest; after a gut crossing the grade eases into shaded forest.

Park in the Cinnamon Bay beach lot on North Shore Road, then reach the trail just east of the plantation ruins. About 50 yards beyond the first gut crossing, a marked spur climbs to the separate America Hill ruins. Stay on the main path to Centerline Road and turn around there; the 0.5-mile nature loop by the ruins is another walk. Leashed dogs are allowed on park trails.

A little over halfway up, three switchbacks lead to the route’s single broad opening over Cinnamon Bay. The grade is gentler beyond the view, and the path finishes at Centerline Road rather than a summit. The return follows the same rocky and grassy tread downhill. After heavy rain, the gut can run and small waterfalls may appear.

This climb follows one of the old roads that linked north-shore bays with Konge Vey, now Centerline Road. The shaded route passes bay-rum trees; their leaves were used to make St John Bay Rum Cologne. Other tall trees named along the way include mango, genip, guava berry, kapok, and mammee apple.