Cabrits National Park, National park with marine reserve and colonial garrison in Portsmouth, Dominica.
Cabrits National Park covers 1,313 acres of protected land featuring tropical forests, coral reefs, and wetlands on a northern peninsula. The area also includes ruins of a colonial garrison with hiking trails that lead to volcanic summits.
The park was established as a protected area to preserve ruins of a fort built in the 1700s as a British military outpost. The site later experienced a significant revolt by enslaved soldiers that marked its complex past.
The name Cabrits comes from goats that sailors released on the peninsula long ago to create a food source for future voyages. This heritage shapes how people refer to and understand the place today.
The park offers several hiking trails of varying difficulty, some part of a longer-distance route that passes through different landscape types. Check locally which routes are currently accessible and what equipment makes sense depending on weather conditions.
The area was originally an extinct volcano standing as an isolated island before natural sediment accumulation connected it to Dominica's mainland. This geological joining remains visible in the site's topography today.
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