Audubon Swamp Garden Trail
Check out the rookery for great bird pictures!
Audubon swamp garden trail. Every season brings special charms. Watch for gators on the trail. Over a mile of raised dikes allow as close an encounter with gators, egrets, and.
Audubon swamp garden, charleston county, sc. It boasts a diversity of living things almost unequaled anywhere else in america. The corkscrew swamp sanctuar trail, largely shady, features benches and rain shelters along the way.
The cattail wildlife refuge trail also has an observation tower. So, you could easily spend the day wondering at this exceptional ecosystem that boasts a diversity of wildlife almost unequaled anywhere else in united states. The audubon swamp garden, at magnolia plantation and gardens is a unique world where trees grow from the water.
Once a freshwater reservoir used for rice cultivation, the entire 60 acres is traversed by boardwalks, bridges, and dikes, and features all varieties of local mammals, birds, and reptiles, including bald eagles, herons. This particular plantation dates back to 1676 and is still owned by the drayton family who originally built it. But the grass is really duckweed and water meal and there are american alligators here and there, resting on boards specially constructed for them, with any.
The magnolia plantation garden admission is $20 per adult. When we arrived we learned that our party of four adults and three children ages 2, 4 and 7 had to first pay admission to the magnolia plantation gardens, before being allowed to purchase the swamp garden tickets. Now it's a black water cypress and tupedo swamp.
See the above trail map for the exact location of the rookery. (travel + leisure magazine), and is the only garden honored with this distinction in the state of south carolina! Civilization has arrived there in the form of an admission guard and a locked gate with a combination lock.