Sage Mountain National Park

Sage Mountain National Park protects the wettest, coolest, and most forested patch of Tortola — a fragment of cloud forest on the spine of the island, with mahogany trees, tree ferns, lianas, and a tangle of vines that feels nothing like the dry coast just below. A short, well-marked trail loops to the summit in around an hour.

The views on a clear day stretch across the whole archipelago — Jost Van Dyke, Virgin Gorda, the USVI in the distance — but the forest itself is the more rewarding feature. Bring water and decent shoes; the trail can be muddy after rain. Modest entry fee, paid at the gate.

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Sage Mountain at 521 metres is the highest point in the British Virgin Islands. The rainforest at its summit is what most of the eastern Caribbean looked like before three centuries of plantation farming stripped the trees off the lower slopes — the park exists because Laurance Rockefeller paid for the land in 1964 and gifted it to the territory.

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