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".

Babcock Wilderness Adventures
Ninety minute swamp buggy tour through the Babcock Ranch
and Telegraph Cypress Swamp, Biking with the Bison Tour.

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
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
Mote Marine Laboratory
(941) 388-4441
1600 Ken Thompson Parkway, Sarasota FL 34236
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
Shell Creek Lodge
Guided nature tours of the Shell Creek and Peace River marshes.
(941) 575-8171
3269 Highway 17, Punta Gorda, FL 33982