Virgin Islands National Park is a unit of the National Park System focusing on bright, sandy beaches and warm, ...

Virgin Islands National Park is famous for its unspoiled beaches. But visitors will also find remains of plantations from the 18th and 19th centuries when St. John was still under Danish rule.

Most travelers to Virgin Islands National Park fly into the Cyril E. King Airport (STT) on St. Thomas (there is also a smaller airport on St. Croix) and then hop on a passenger ferry to St. John.

I came here, to the beaches of Virgin Islands National Park, because of a different national park 3,700 miles away. Every summer, my wife and I go to Washington state to visit her family. For ...

In 1956 conservationist Laurance S. Rockefeller donated more than 5,000 acres for a national park on St. John; in 1962 the park acquired 5,650 undersea acres off the northern and southern coasts.