Into the Green Bowl: Hiking Grand Etang Lake’s Rainforest and Waterfall Trails

The road up from St. George’s narrows and begins to tuck into the island’s spine. You climb through banana farms and nutmeg trees until the air changes—thicker, cooler, scented with wet leaves and spice. The final switchback opens onto a bowl of emerald forest and, in its center, a still, black lake: Grand Etang. Mist threads across the water; birds call like distant bells. A pair of Mona monkeys—curious, bold—observe from a branch, then scatter into the understory when you draw near. Here, on Grenada’s central ridge, the rainforest breathes, and the trail invites you to step from sugar-sand beaches into a different kind of Caribbean wild.