Where Antigua and Barbuda stays wild
5 protected parks and reserves across Antigua and Barbuda, from the historic harbor at Nelson's Dockyard and the trails of Wallings Nature Reserve to Codrington Lagoon National Park on Barbuda.
Nelson's Dockyard National Park
Antigua's flagship protected area wraps the UNESCO Georgian dockyard, Shirley Heights, and the Pillars of Hercules in roughly 16 square miles of dry forest, fortifications, and coastline laced with walking trails.
Codrington Lagoon National Park
Barbuda's vast brackish lagoon shelters mangrove creeks, the largest magnificent frigatebird colony in the Caribbean, and an 11-mile run of pink-tinged sand on its seaward bar.
Great Bird Island
A 20-acre uninhabited islet in the North Sound, ringed by reef and reached only by boat, with nesting red-billed tropicbirds and a short clifftop hike to wide Atlantic views.
North Sound
A reef-sheltered cluster of uninhabited islets, mangroves, and seagrass off Antigua's north-east coast, home to the Stingray City sandbar and some of the island's calmest snorkelling.
Wallings Nature Reserve
A pocket of cool evergreen forest in Antigua's south-west hills, wrapped around a Victorian stone reservoir, with marked trails climbing to Signal Hill, the island's second-highest peak.
Build a route through the islands' protected wild
Check each park page for trail lengths, the season, entry rules, and how to reach the trailhead.