Region: Central Palm Beach County
Size: 772 acres
Hours: Daily from sunrise to sunset
Location:
- Main Entrance
110 Nature's Way, Royal Palm Beach, 33411 (not a mailing address), approximately 1.6 miles north of Okeechobee Road and 0.7 mile west of Royal Palm Beach Boulevard. From Royal Palm Beach Boulevard, take Crestwood Boulevard west and turn right onto Saratoga Boulevard; follow Saratoga Boulevard to Nature's Way; turn left on Nature's Way to reach the parking lot.
- North Entrance
13500 40th Street North, Royal Palm Beach, FL 33411 (not a mailing address). The entrance is located on the south side of 40th Street North, approximately 1.75 miles west of Royal Palm Beach Boulevard. A permit is required to use the equestrian entrances - one located at the north entrance and one located on the south side of the site at the intersection of North Road and F Road.
Public Use Facilities:
Facilities at the main entrance include a parking area for ten cars and two buses, a bicycle rack, an accessible portable toilet, a kiosk with educational exhibits, an accessible nature trail with a boardwalk and a covered observation platform, and natural-surface hiking trails. Facilities at the north entrance include a parking area for ten cars and two buses or horse trailers, a bicycle rack, a kiosk with educational exhibits, and an accessible portable toilet.
Site Information:
The natural area contains six native Florida ecosystems: mesic flatwoods, wet flatwoods, hydric hammock, wet prairie, depression marsh, and dome swamp. Palm Beach County purchased most of the site in 1992 and 1993, and leases part of a wetland from the Saratoga in the Pines Homeowners' Association. The rest of the site was deeded to the County in 2003 as part of a mitigation settlement agreement. The County manages the natural area with the assistance of the Village of Royal Palm Beach and the Indian Trail Improvement District. The natural area is part of the Northeast Everglades Natural Area.
Plants:
Plant species observed on the site include spikerush, wild pennyroyal, wax myrtle, wiregrass, hairy chaffhead, Leavenworth's tickseed, largeflower rosegentian, string-lily, dahoon, and slash pine.
Wildlife:
Animal species observed on the site include lined tree snail, eastern tiger swallowtail, red-banded leafhopper, little grass frog, striped mud turtle, Mississippi green watersnake, white ibis, red-tailed hawk, great blue heron, and cotton mouse.
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