Trail Guide
Welcome to the Greenville Cypress Preserve! Experience a walk in nature into this century old bald cypress “brake.” This Trail Guide will take you on a self-guided tour to help you learn more about this incredible preserve.
Explore the Preserve
We hope that you will enjoy the beauty of the Greenville Cypress Preserve. Below you will find a map that will help you navigate the preserve. If you would like to learn more about each area, please take the self-guided tour. Read each sign first, then read or listen to the additional information in the Tour Guide.
Map of the Greenville Cypress Preserve
KEY
1. Take a Break In a “Brake”
2. Protecting History
3. A Natural Garden
4. Enjoy the Preserve
5. Wonders of Wetlands
6. What is that Green (or Red) Stuff?
7. Botany of the Preserve
8. Let’s Go Bird Watching
9. Providing Wildlife Habitat
10. Bob Gramling Observation Deck
11. Keeping Track of the Animals
12. Dead Trees are Full of Life
13. A Duck in a Tree?
14. Home, Sweet Home!
15. The Invaders
16. Greenville Floods: The Big Ones
17. The Champ
18. The Giving Tree
19. Wetland Critters
20. Why is a Bald Cypress Bald?
21. Water, Water Everywhere
22. Holt Collier’s First Bear
CREDITS
Authors of Trail Guide: Lynn Cox & Lynn Libous Bailey
Webmaster: Becky Wineman
Web Designer: Bo Pentecost (Solve)