Pont Cassé

The Pont Casse Round About in Pont Cassé is the starting point for Segment 5 of the Waitukubuli National Trail. If you’re looking for hotels in Pont Cassé, this route offers a specific point of reference when choosing your destination. Its length, duration, and course can help you assess how the segment fits into your stay planning.

Segment 5: Length, duration, and course

Segment 5 is rated as an easy hike, is about 17.4 kilometers long, and takes approximately six hours to complete. Distance and duration convey different aspects: the kilometer figure describes the length, while the time estimate helps you gauge how much time to allow. Trail conditions may affect the actual duration. The easy rating and estimated time also address different planning questions: one indicates the level of difficulty, while the other gives an approximate timeframe. Taken together, this information can help you fit the hike into your stay planning.

The segment follows the Old Carib Trace, also known as the Kalinago Stone Pathway, passes through Fond Melle, and offers the opportunity to visit Emerald Pool. The pool is a possible place to visit along the route; it is not the endpoint of Segment 5.

Route connections within the wider destination of Saint Paul Parish

Segment 4 of the Waitukubuli National Trail is also connected to Pont Cassé: it ends at the Waitukubuli National Trail Research and Interpretation Facility in the village. Segment 5 begins at the Pont Casse Round About. Within the wider destination of Saint Paul Parish, Segment 5 ends in Richmond near Castle Bruce. This helps distinguish the locations associated with the two segments: Pont Cassé is the endpoint of Segment 4 and the starting point of Segment 5.

Segment 4 runs through the heart of the Morne Trois Pitons National Park, which is part of a World Heritage Site. Emerald Pool is also part of this national park. The area around Pont Cassé lies at the foot of the Morne Trois Pitons World Heritage Site. These landscape connections add a regional perspective within Saint Paul Parish to the specific information about the trail segments.

For planning your stay, these details offer several points of reference: Segment 5 begins in Pont Cassé and takes approximately six hours; the park and World Heritage Site designations describe a broader regional context. If the hike is your main focus, you can take into account both the starting point and the segment’s length and estimated duration.

Cultural history in Saint Paul Parish

Another regional point of interest is the Old Mill Cultural Centre in Canefield, in Saint Paul Parish. It houses a museum, a folk research center, a sculpture workshop, and a dance studio. It was formerly an old mill owned by British settlers; sugar, rum, and molasses were produced there in the late 18th and 19th centuries.

This site brings together a history of use and cultural facilities: the mill is associated with the former production of sugar, rum, and molasses, while the center now houses the cultural facilities mentioned above. This adds another point of interest within the wider destination of Saint Paul Parish to the focus on the trail at Pont Cassé.

More destinations

Discover more destinations: Mahaut, Canefield.

Go to the main travel overview: Saint Paul Parish.