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Name of Place: Big Cypress Bend Boardwalk

Location: 137 Coastline Drive, Copeland, FL 34137

Coordinates: 25°57’05.9”N 81°21’35.0”W

Website: orchidswamp.org/plan-your-visit/the-boardwalk/

Phone Number: (239) 695-4593

Hours: Sunrise to sunset

Restrooms: No
Cost: $3.00 per motor vehicle (8 people per car); $2.00 per person (pedestrian or bicycles)

Great for: Nature photography; bald cypress trees, royal palm trees, black bears, snakes, alligators, turtles, otters, wading birds

The Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park is a swamp forest about 20 miles long by five miles wide. The Big Cypress Bend Boardwalk is a 1.2-mile boardwalk into the forest. You won’t have much chance for landscape photography in this heavily wooded area. However, you are sure to see alligators, wading birds, snakes, turtles and maybe even deer, wild turkeys and black bears.