Sulphur Springs, Saint Lucia
Sulphur Springs is a geothermal field on the island of Saint Lucia.
Sulphur Springs is a geothermal field on the island of Saint Lucia. It is located to the southwest in the district of Soufriere, a name given by the French meaning 'sulphur mine', because of the proximity of the town to the site. It is the most popular tourist destination in Saint Lucia, with approximately 200,000 annual patrons to the park, and is known as 'the world's only drive-in volcano'.
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Worth seeing in and around Sulphur Springs, Saint Lucia
2 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.
- 01Petit Piton
The Pitons are two mountainous volcanic plugs, volcanic spires, located in Saint Lucia. Petit Piton is 743 m high and Gros Piton is 798.25 m high; they are linked by the Piton Mitan ridge.
2.3 km · mountain in Saint Lucia · Wikipedia - 02Bat Cave, Saint Lucia
Bat Cave is a small cave in the Caribbean Island of St. Lucia on the Western Coast.
2.2 km · cave · Wikipedia
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Getting to Sulphur Springs, Saint Lucia
- Airports
- Hewanorra (UVF), 15 km · Argyle (SVD), 76 km · Martinique Aimé Césaire (FDF), 84 km
- Kingstown → Sulphur Springs, Saint LuciaTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Fort-de-France → Sulphur Springs, Saint Lucia85 km · quickest by ferry, 4h 45m · $56–134
- Bridgetown → Sulphur Springs, Saint LuciaTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Sulphur Springs, Saint Lucia
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 Sulphur Springs, Saint Lucia. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThere are water taxis that stop in Soufriere coming from both the northern and southern part of the island.
- Get aroundThe minibuses which depart regularly for Vieux Fort will drop people on the road for either the volcano, the estate or the Pitons, but some walking may be required afterwards.
From Wikivoyage: Soufriere, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Sulphur Springs, Saint Lucia
- Soufrière Quarterdistrict of Saint Lucia1.4 km
- Soufrièretown in Saint Lucia2.3 km