Jackson Riverfront Pines Natural Area

Open Sunrise to Sunset This 3-acre site is home to three native ecosystems - pine trees and saw palmettos in the scrubby flatwoods, live oaks and cabbage palms in the mesic hammock, and red, black, and white mangroves and buttonwood in the mangrove swamp that lines the eastern shore of the north fork of the famous Wild and Scenic Loxahatchee River. Features 60 species of native South Florida plants found here including Common and Giant wild pine airplants. 39 species of native South Florida animals found here including American Redstart, Florida prairie warbler, Gopher tortoise, Osprey, Swallow-tailed kite, and West Indian manatee.