Eco-Walk Trail
Enhance your outdoor skills on the Eco-Walk Trail, part of the scenic 27,295-acre Crystal River Preserve State Park. Numerous benches and 11 interpretive “discovery” stations along the trail make this a great educational spot and a fun destination for family outings. This pleasant foot trail loops for 2 miles through wet prairie, hardwood hammock, pines and freshwater swamp and offers up a surprising diversity of birds. Yellow-breasted Chats, Worm-eating Warblers and Swainson’s Warblers pass through in spring, Soras and both bitterns inhabit the ponds in season, and House and Sedge Wrens skulk in the vegetation during fall/winter. Other Neotropical migrants like Eastern Kingbirds and Yellow-throated Vireos turn up in fall. Open areas are good for American Kestrels and Red-shouldered Hawks, as well as Swallow-tailed Kites in summer. White-tailed Deer, Wood Ducks, Sandhill Cranes, Northern Bobwhites, Osceola Wild Turkeys, Pileated Woodpeckers and Carolina Wrens are possible here.
Site Information
This Site is Free to Enter
Managing Agency
FL Dept. of Environmental Protection, Div. of Recreation and Parks
Operational Hours: Open all year, 8 AM to sundown
Size: 160 acres
