Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge

Great place to find your Zen. Has multitude of zones, if you want the sun or the shade. Had forts so you can look out onto nature without being noticed and decks to be able to sit and admire the big birds up above. It was ridiculously clean, don t think I even saw one piece of garbage on the ground. At the time I saw a bald eagle flying up above, so that made my day. Had no back benches to sit if you wanted. It's quit enough to bring a book and read. Everyone there was respectful and quit. Just a great place to go to escape from reality.

A great place to know about wildlife of America. What is more interesting is the walking trail in the park. It is absolutely fantastic.

Nice quiet place to walk on wooden boardwalk paths. Bugs not an issue in early April will get bad later in the spring. Paths are level and not to long. Bathrooms are available.

Love this place and I bet it looks awesome in the spring! There is a little walking involved and not much of a wildlife perhaps due to the cold? There were a lot of birds. Not swampy due to the time of the year. Will say if you want to visit with kids and make them excited about animals or feed their curiosity a zoo may be easier to see but try coming to the swamp in spring or summer, there will be plenty to see then.

Beautiful and peaceful! Winter was a good time to visit, the ground was frozen so very little mud to deal with. I was fine with regular hiking boots.

The ivory and yellow trails were a bit neglected. Both had thorns growing into the path in a few areas and I had to clear a few tree branches blocking the path. In general, the trail markers were few and far between for me. I hiked for about 2 hours and I must have walked off the trail unknowingly about a dozen times. It was fine, just a little annoying to have to back track to the last trail marker.