Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary in Collier County, Florida, USA  
Come on a pictorial tour of the largest forest of ancient Bald Cypress in North America.  Corkscrew Swamp is a world renowned sanctuary and home to the largest colony of nesting Wood Storks in the United States. 
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Blair Visitor Center has wonderful interactive educational displays, a coffee/snack shop and a great gift shop

"Woodstorks"  - Donated by 
William H. Turner and Dorothy R. Blair, 1992

Black Bear - Photo by Ralph Arwood (copyright)

Looking toward South Meadow

Whitetail Deer

ADDRESS:
Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary
375 Sanctuary Road
Naples, FL 34120
(941) 348-9151

DIRECTIONS:
15 miles east of exit 17 of I-75 at Naples.
Take Immokalee Road (S.R. 846) East as it curves 
North and then East again.  You'll see the 
sign to Corkscrew Swamp pointing left.

 

HOURS:
April 11 thru September 30:  7 am to 7:30 pm
October 1 thru April 10:  7 am to 5:30 pm
(The entrance to the boardwalk closes 
one hour before Sanctuary closing time.)

ADMISSIONS:
Adults:  $10
Audubon Members:  $5
Full-time College students:  $6
Children 6 to 18 yrs:  $4
Children under 6:  Free

Brown Rabbit

Butterfly Garden

Red Shouldered Hawk

Barred Owl

Barred Owl

Boardwalk  from Blair Visitor's Center 
looking toward North Meadow

Pearl Crescent

One of the Lettuce Lakes during the Dry Season.  When they dry out, the weeds grow up like crazy!

Another dried out Lettuce Lake

Swamp Hibiscus

Tree Frog

Otter Watch with no water.  Late June, 2001

Green Anole

Gator Hole Rain Shelter

South Meadow

Crinum Lilly

Gopher Tortoise - an endangered species

Old Giant Swallowtail - note the tattered wing

Marsh Overlook, looking North

Plaque explaining the watershed system

Lettuce Lake almost empty of water

Same Lettuce Lake after all the water is gone

Same Lettuce Lake at end of Dry Season

Lettuce Lake at the beginning of the Wet Season

Pearl Crescent

Whitetail Deer in North Meadow

A fawn whose spots have almost disappeared

Swamp Hibiscus

Swamp Hibiscus

Links for Corkscrew Swamp

Corkscrew Swamp - National Audubon Society  

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