Attractions Environment / Wildlife

Babcock/Webb Wildlife Mgmt. Area
65,000 acres managed to maximize wildlife; fishing, camping, and hunting. One of the featured sites in the "Florida Wildlife Viewing Guide".
(941) 575-5768
29200 Tuckers Grade, Punta Gorda, FL 33955 (Exit 27)
www.fcn.state.fl.us/gfc/
 
 

Babcock Wilderness Adventures
Ninety minute swamp buggy tour through the Babcock Ranch and Telegraph Cypress Swamp, Biking with the Bison Tour.
(800) 500-5583
8000 State Road 31, Punta Gorda, FL 33982
www.babcockwilderness.com
 
 
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Cedar Point Park
The Cedar Point Environmental Park is an 88-acre site offering visitors over four miles of trails through coastal and scrub ecosystems, a program building with exhibits, a non-motorized boat launch, and picnic areas for your enjoyment.
(941) 475-0769
(A Charlotte Harbor Environmental Center Facility)
5800 Placida Road, Englewood, FL 34224
www.checflorida.org
 
Sarasota Jungle Gardens - Open daily 9AM to 5PM, closed Christmas Day
Here is an opportunity to enjoy a stroll along a trail that wanders through an ever-changing landscape of cool, under-story jungle growth and around open pond shorelines. As one meanders through Sarasota Jungle Gardens, a magnificent and wildy overgrown paradise, one wonders how such an abundance began.
941-355-5305
3701 Bay Shore Road, Sarasota, FL 34234
www.sarasotajunglegardens.com
 
The Charlotte Harbor Environmental Center
A twenty-acre nature center offering environmental education programs and recreation with over five miles of trails intersecting a variety of southwest Florida ecosystems, wildlife exhibits, four buildings and a large screened pavilion.
(941) 575-5435
Center at Alligator Creek
10941 Burnt Store Road, Punta Gorda, FL 33955
Fax: (941) 575-5497
www.checflorida.org
 
Mote Marine Laboratory
(941) 388-4441
1600 Ken Thompson Parkway, Sarasota FL 34236
www.mote.org
A fascinating sea life adventure for the entire family!  Experience Interactive Shark Attack.  Many sea creatures are to be seen including Manatees, Eels, Sea Turtles.

Peace River Wildlife Center
An active wildlife rehabilitation center that treats over 1,200 patients a year. With several indigenous animals and birds on display. Wed.- Mon. 10:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
(941) 637-3830
3400 West Marion Avenue, Punta Gorda, FL 33950
 
 
Marie Selby Botanical Gardens
(941) 366-5731
811 South Palm Avenue, Sarasota FL 34326
www.selby.org
 
Shell Creek Lodge
Guided nature tours of the Shell Creek and Peace River marshes.
(941) 575-8171
3269 Highway 17, Punta Gorda, FL 33982
 
Tippecanoe Environmental Park
Hiking trails and wildlife viewing throughout its 275 acres of scrub and pine flatwoods. 

(941) 627-1628
SR 627, Port Charlotte, FL 33948
www.charlotte-florida.com/chec
 

 

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