Battle Creek Cypress Swamp

Beautiful Walk

Great boardwalk through the swamp. Beautiful scenery. Very relaxing. The cypress trees are beautiful and massive. The visitors center showed how to tell the age of a tree by the rings.

Hidden Gem

Tucked away in the woods just south of Prince Frederick is this quaint museum/ nature center/ preserve. Abundant parking and no admission cost. Note that there is a nice picnic shelter that seems rare...

Fascinating & unique

This little jewel of a park makes up for it's small size with some impressive primordial fauna (bald cypress trees) around its trails and some neat wildlife (various owls, a hawk, and a large albino s...

Nice, short trails

The Battle Creek Cypress Swamp Sanctuary has a small, but nice nature center that includes small animals indigenous to the area including an albino snapping turtle. There are several trails through t...

very nice--but please get bigger aquarium for turtle

Small but very interesting. The large albino turtle seemed very agitated this last time we were here. The tank he is in in very small for his size... Please hopefully they can get some funding to ...