Otter Point Trail

Dogs No Dogs

Features Birding · Fall Colors · River/Creek · Views · Wildlife

Entrance fee: $6 per vehicle. Military members and veterans receive free admission.

Low grade and few obstacles on the path.

An easy, flat yellow-blazed trail, that runs from the Wetlands Center to Otter Point at the mouth of Two Run Branch. There is a swamp blind observation platform near Otter Point that provides a view of the river and the tidal wetlands. At the end of the trail, there is another observation platform and a beaver dam about 300-feet up the creek.

Gulls, Least Bittern, Marsh Wren, Osprey, Swamp Sparrow, Waders

Spring: American Coot, Black-and-white Warbler, Blackpoll Warbler, Blue-winged Teal, Caspian Tern, Greater Yellowlegs, Hooded Warbler, Horned Grebe, Lesser Yellowlegs, Northern Rough-winged Swallow, Palm Warbler, Pied-billed Grebe, Prothonotary Warbler, Purple Martin, Red-tailed Hawk, Spotted Sandpiper, Yellow Warbler, Yellow-throated Warbler

Autumn: Great Egret, Northern Harrier, Magnolia Warbler, Red-headed Woodpecker, Sora

Winter: Brown Creeper, Common Merganser, Dark-eyed Junco, Golden-crowned Kinglet, Green-winged Teal, Hermit Thrush, Killdeer, Northern Pintail, Northern Shoveler, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Ruddy Duck, Rusty Blackbird, Tundra Swan, Yellow-rumped Warbler, White-throated Sparrow, Winter Wren

Year-round: American Goldfinch, Bald Eagle, Belted Kingfisher, Canada Goose, Carolina Chickadee, Carolina Wren, Double-crested Cormorant, Downy Woodpecker, Eastern Towhee, Great Blue Heron, Hairy Woodpecker.