Bolans
Bolans is the largest settlement in Saint Mary, Antigua and Barbuda.
Bolans is the largest settlement in Saint Mary, Antigua and Barbuda. Located south of Jennings on Valley Road, the once agrarian community has since been transformed into the economic centre of Saint Mary, as well as one of the largest tourist destinations in the country in the Jolly Harbour neighbourhood. With a population of 2,053 people in 2011, Bolans is the third largest settlement in the country behind All Saints and St. John's. It borders Jennings and Ebenezer to the northeast and Ffryes to the south.
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Worth seeing in and around Bolans
8 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Mount Obama
Boggy Peak is a mountain located in the southwest of Antigua, a constituent island of the archipelagic country of Antigua and Barbuda. At a height of 1,319 feet, it is the highest point of the Shekerley Mountains and the island as a whole.
3.1 km · mountain in Antigua and Barbuda · Wikipedia - 02McNish Mountain
McNish Mountain, also known as Table Mountain, is located in Saint John, Antigua and Barbuda. The mountain is visible from the village of Buckleys and straddles the border between Saint John and Saint Mary.
3.5 km · mountain in Antigua and Barbuda · Wikipedia - 03Monteros Hill
Monteros Hill is located in the northern part of Saint Mary, Antigua and Barbuda, overlooking the Montero Plain. It is a forested area near New Division Estate and Seaforths.
2.1 km · hill in Antigua and Barbuda · Wikipedia - 04Green Castle Hill
Green Castle Hill is a hill near Green Castle, Antigua and Barbuda. The site has been considered a national park since 2008, the first protected site in the Shekerley Mountains.
2.8 km · hill of Antigua · Wikipedia - 05Botts Peak
Botts Peak is one of the Shekerley Mountains of Saint Mary, Antigua and Barbuda. It has an elevation of 325 m and 30 m of prominence.
1.9 km · mountain in Antigua and Barbuda · Wikipedia - 06Garden Hill
Garden Hill is one of the Shekerley Mountains of Saint Mary, Antigua and Barbuda. It has an elevation of 135 m and 30 m of prominence.
2 km · mountain in Antigua and Barbuda · Wikipedia - 07Mosquito Hill
Mosquito Hill is a peak located on the Pearns Point peninsula of Saint Mary, Antigua and Barbuda, overlooking Jolly Harbour. The hill has an elevation of 52 m and prominence of 47 m.
2.8 km · hill of Antigua · Wikipedia - 08Bolans Hill
Bolans Hill is a peak located near Bolans village in Saint Mary, Antigua and Barbuda. There is also a neighbourhood in the village named after it.
800 m · mountain in Antigua and Barbuda · Wikipedia
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Getting to Bolans
- Airports
- V. C. Bird (ANU), 12 km · John A. Osborne (MNI), 46 km · Robert L. Bradshaw (SKB), 94 km
- Gerald's Park → BolansTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Basseterre → BolansTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Pointe-à-Pitre → Bolans99 km · quickest by ferry, 6h 36m · €112–177
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Bolans
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Bolans. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inBarthelemy) Montserrat Ferry has ferries from Montserrat.
- Get aroundTourists mainly get around by car rental or tour operators.
- Get aroundThere is however a fleet of local buses, usually minibuses with about 12-14 seats, which run set routes (you can tell from the number on a circular badge on the upper right corner of the windscreen as the bus approaches you) and you can wait at a stop or walk along the road and hail a passing one.
- Get aroundBarbuda Express runs ferries between Barbuda and Antigua.
From Wikivoyage: Antigua and Barbuda, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.
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Next door to Bolans
- Saint Maryparish in Antigua and Barbuda3.8 km
- Jenningshuman settlement in Antigua and Barbuda2.1 km
- Jolly Harbourhuman settlement in Antigua and Barbuda1.4 km
- Johnsons Pointvillage in Antigua3.6 km
- Ebenezertown in Antigua, Antigua and Barbuda1.3 km
- Crabs Hilltown in Antigua, Antigua and Barbuda3.9 km