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provides habitat for threatened trails, including boardwalk trails,
and endangered species. and boat access with canoe,
Exploring the Refuge’s interior kayak, and small motorboat
leads to views of open lakes, rentals. There are 120 miles of
marshes, scrub-shrub, cypress water trails for canoeing and
and hardwood forests, and pine kayaking within the swamp.
The Okefenokee Swamp
islands. There are three main
• VISIT THE OKEFENOKEE • are numerous islands in the ibis, osprey, heron, wood stork,
is designated a Wetland of
access points. Each site has

640-square-mile, 400,000-acre
numerous other creatures.
Okefenokee National Wildlife
Refuge. The diversity of habitat
Campers in the parks and
types contributes to more than red-cockaded woodpecker, and
campgrounds adjacent to the
850 plant species and 200-plus swamp love the exceptionally dark
bird species that live within and night skies.
visit the swamp. The Okefenokee National
From a safe distance, say hi Wildlife Refuge was established
to an alligator, indigo snake, in 1937 as a breeding ground for Okefenokee Swamp National Wildlife Refuge
turtle, raccoon, black bear, deer, migratory birds and wildlife and
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