Okefenokee Swamp Park

Okefenokee Swamp Park Review

8 mi south of Waycross via U.S. 1.

This park serves as the northern entrance to the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, offering easy access as well as exhibits and orientation programs good for the entire family. The park has a 1-mi nature trail, observation areas, wilderness walkways, an outdoor museum of pioneer life, and boat tours into the swamp that reveal its unique ecology. A boardwalk and 90-foot tower are excellent places to glimpse cruising gators and birds. A 1½-mi train tour (included in the admission price) passes by a Seminole village and stops at Pioneer Island, a re-created pioneer homestead, for a 30-minute walking tour.