Guided Tours

The Alligator Creek Preserve is located on a 30,000+acre State Park Preserve, which includes the Charlotte Harbor Preserve State Park along the western border.This Park is owned by the State of Florida and a portion is leased to the Charlotte Harbor Environmental Center, Inc. for environmental education and recreation.

The Alligator Creek Preserve is the area’s four (4+) miles of nature trails. Year-round volunteers offer interpretive trail walks to the public free of charge.

They offer many free programs or self guided walking tours. The park is located in Punta Gorda. Call 941/575-5435 for more information.

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Deep Creek Preserve Guided Walks
Through reservation, groups are taking on an interpretive guided hike through a vital upland habitat. This 2,000 acre preserve was purchased by SWFWMD to protect and enhance water quality of the Peace River. Bought with tax-dollars, this is a public preserve, open to hiking, horseback riding, and biking. The Preserve was bought for many reasons, one of which is the Red Cockaded Woodpecker. The essential long-leaf pine grows in the Preserve and it is the hope of the wildlife managers that soon the RCW will move into artificial nesting boxes, and eventually into the trees themselves. Many, many other species of birds have been sighted here: egrets, herons, red-bellied woodpecker, sand hill cranes, pileated woodpecker, warblers (yellow- rumped to name one...). Not only birds but deer, hog tracks, gopher tortoises and the occasional bobcat have been spotted.