PARKS & OUTDOORS
CREW Marsh Trails
Collier County · South Florida & the Keys
5.5 miles of marked loop trail at 4600 Corkscrew Road, Immokalee, on the edge of a sawgrass marsh of five thousand acres.
ABOUT THIS PLACE
CREW stands for the Corkscrew Regional Ecosystem Watershed, and the CREW Land and Water Trust looks after it. The point of the whole holding is water: this is watershed ground, and protecting it is a water decision as much as a wildlife one. The trails cross pine flatwoods, oak hammock and popash slough, and in the slough the wide flat path turns into winding single track over roots. An observation deck and tower look out across the marsh. Suzanne's Pavilion sits about seven-tenths of a mile from the parking area. There is a kiosk with maps, one portable toilet at the trailhead, and no trash cans at all, because the place runs on leave no trace. Dogs are welcome on a leash. Woodpeckers, flycatchers, warblers, hawks, owls and swallow-tailed kites are the birding, and the site is on the Great Florida Birding Trail. It opens an hour before sunrise and closes an hour after sunset, and there is no charge
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