Things To Do

In and around one of the Atlantic Coast's largest urban areas, the Preserve offers glimpses of Old Florida in some unexpected places.

• Explore a fort exhibit that recalls the lives and deaths of 16th-century French colonists.
• Walk among live oaks and thickets of palmettos where pre-Columbian and Timucuan people once lived.
• Climb a wildlife observation platform overlooking salt marsh habitat.
• Visit a plantation where enslaved men, women, and children of African descent labored and the plantation owner sought to make his fortune.
• Find tranquility in a day at the beach, ride a segway, or wind your way by kayak through the marshy expanse.

 

There are many ways to enjoy out 46,000 acre preserve.

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