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Outside Traveler Annual 2004

The Perfect 10: Adventure Lodges We Love
U.S. Virgin Islands

By Ted Stedman


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MOUNT VICTORY CAMP
St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
Brand-new Mount Victory Camp presents guests with a pleasant Caribbean quandary: what to do first? Just beyond your tent flap are the mountains and valleys of St. Croix's wild northwest corner, crisscrossed with hiking and biking trails and garnished with mango trees. A 20-minute walk away is a sugary white-sand beach, with a coral reef a few flipper kicks offshore and calypso beach bars for post-swim.

DETAILS
Mount Victory Camp Tents, $75 per night, double occupancy; bungalows, $85; $10 per additional adult. Bring your own food. 866-772-1651, www.mtvictorycamp.com
Room & Board: Co-owner Bruce Wilson, a transplanted New Englander who's lived on the island for 40 years, has turned this onetime Danish estate into a 15-acre back-to-the-earth outpost, complete with chickens, horses, and 300 fruit trees. The three platform tents and two bungalows are positioned for ocean and hillside views and built of hurricane-felled teak and mahogany. Each has a kitchenette, and guests share a central pavilion for lounging and a bathhouse with hot running water. Swigs of Mount Victory's infamous Mama Juana herbal rum tonic, purported to improve health, come with the deal.

Out the Back Door: Hop aboard the 42-foot glass-bottom Renegade, run by Big Beard's Adventure Tours (340-773-4482, www.bigbeards.com), for a sailing excursion to Buck Island Reef National Monument, where you'll snorkel through underwater grottoes. Or kayak the craggy north shore with Virgin Kayak Tours (340-778-0071) launching in the very bay where Christopher Columbus moored his ships more than 500 years ago.


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