Black River, Jamaica: What to Know Before You Visit Black River is the sort of South Coast place that rewards travellers who leave a little breathing room in the itinerary. The town sits in St. Elizabeth Parish beside Jamaica’s longest navigable river, with the Black River Lower Morass stretching inland behind it. Come for the…
Beyond YS Falls Seven Mile Beach is glorious, and after several days around Negril it can be surprisingly easy to forget how quickly Jamaica changes once you head east. The resort strip gives way to cane country, small roadside communities and the broad Great Morass, then the landscape begins to fold towards the hills of…
YS Falls is in Saint Elizabeth Parish on Jamaica’s south-west coast, in Cornwall County, roughly 35 kilometres inland from the parish capital at Black River. That single line settles the question travellers type most often about the place, and it is a line most guides bury beneath three paragraphs of scene-setting. Saint Elizabeth is Jamaica’s…