⭐ Highlight
Fort King George and the Tobago Museum
An 18th-century fort on the ridge above Scarborough, with cannons, gardens and the island museum.
Typical duration
90 min
Price
Fort free, museum about TT$20 (≈ €2.7 / $3)
From port
1.8 km / 1.1 mi
Transfer time
25 min
Indoor / Outdoor
mixed
Queue risk
low
🕐 Best time to visit
Early morning, before the climb gets hot
Fort King George sits on the ridge directly above Scarborough and it is the one sight in town that everybody makes the effort for. The British built it in the 1770s and it changed hands repeatedly before the wars ended, leaving a neat run of cannons, powder magazines and an officers' mess set in cut lawns with big shade trees. The old barracks now hold the Tobago Museum, a small collection of Amerindian artefacts, colonial maps and military oddments that costs a couple of TT dollars to enter. The view is the real payoff: the whole harbour below, your ship at the berth and the Atlantic coast running away east.
Getting there from the port
Walk into town and up Fort Street, about 25 minutes and steep, or take a taxi up and walk down