Helen & Allan Cruickshank Sanctuary Nature Trail

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Features Birding · Wildflowers · Wildlife

Mainly sugar sand with the occasional scrub palm root crossing the trail.

A short balloon loop trail with views of the Florida Scrub Jays—a threatened species that is Florida's only endemic bird. This loops through a diversity of habitats—pine flatwoods, patches of oak scrub, sand pine scrub, and freshwater depression marshes.

The scrub palms and other undergrowth are about waist height until about a quarter-mile in when you enter foliage above head height. The VERY friendly scrub jays make their appearance about 0.6 miles in (before the trail turns south).

Migratory birds, Florida scrub jay, Gopher tortoise, Raptor, Bobwhite quail, Eastern indigo snake, Bobcat. Yellow milkwort, Longleaf pine, Blue-eyes grasses, Pineland St. John's wort, Oak, Sand pine scrub.