Florida Nature Pictures
South Florida Nature Trails

The Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge is named after a prominant Florida environmentalist, teacher, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Employee. The refuge is about 221 square miles. It contains a mixed habitat of sloughs, wet praries, sawgrass, tree islands, cypress forests, and marsh lands. Only the Cypress Swamp and Marsh will be visited here.

The Cypress Swamp Boardwalk

 

Nature Center

The trail starts at the Nature Center. Here you can pick up trail maps and maps of the entire refuge.

 

Inside the Nature Center is a small store that sells nature books and other small objects. There are also animal displays and interactive learning tools.

 

Inside Nature Center

Pond

 

The actual Cypress Swamp encompasses 400 acres. The 0.4 Mile boardwalk takes you through a tall forest of Cypress trees. This kind of boardwalk without hand rails is less restricting and you feel more engulfed by the sourrounding trees.

 

 

Start of Trail