Red, Blue and Green. Three colors, three beaches, each of them different. Green is the most remote ... but you'll be glad you came.

You have to want to be on Green Beach to get to Green Beach. Vieques’s westernmost beach is remote, by this island’s standards. To get here, you have to pass a metal bridge a mangrove lagoon, and a dirt road or two. Then, when you arrive, you’ll notice immediately that this is a long but narrow beach, nothing on the scale of its color-coded cousins, Red and Blue (the names, incidentally, come from the U.S.

Navy, who used the colors to identify the beaches when conducting training exercises).
Then you see the coconut palms, the occasional sailboat or two, the edge-of-the-world isolation, and, in the distance, mainland Puerto Rico. The tip of Green Beach, Punta Arenas, is the closest point to the mainland. And you think that maybe, this was the beach you wanted all along. Just one thing though: be careful of overstaying your welcome, because the beach’s more permanent residents - the sand flies – will make your life miserable in the late afternoon.