Trumbull Trail to Tide Pools

Many of the people that live on St. Croix go to the tide pools and use the Trumbull Trail. Others don't know the trail name is Trumbull Trail . Trumbull Trail was used by the Maroons (runaway slaves) to escape being captured or running from being hunted. This trail is more than 2.7 miles long and has very rough terrain in the middle. We also saw a tree that "we" never heard of which is called "Monkey Don't Climb That Tree", which  really means to have caution. It has spikes coming out of the bark to project itself from predators. We walked this trail with shoes and supplies with us but imagine the enslaved back then when they have no water either food and no shoes. To add on to that, they are running for their life. Trumbull Trail is mainly on a hill. It leads to Tide Pools. It is a series of tides filling up over a shore line with walls. It gets very deep on an high tide but today it was shallow. Rocks and walls all around us. For us today the whole trail to and from plus a trip to the mill just up the hill was 6.9 miles long. A lot of hiking but worth it when we went in the tide pools.

Monkey Don't Climb That Tree