Arthur R. Marshall Foundation Reviews

THE REAL FLORIDA..GREAT FISHING,,, BIG GATORS ,,BIRDS OF ALL KINDS,,SURVEYING THE F.P.L. POWER LINES IM THERE ALOT AND IT'S FANTASTIC
WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN THOUGH,,,UGH,,,THEM SKEETERS BY THE THOUSANDS

I just love this place! So beautiful and quite. Definitely worth the stop!!!

This is a great place to enjoy Florida nature: walk, fish, launch a boat and enjoy the everglades.

Great place for a good bike ride with nature amd an occassional alligator.

We saw 4 gators on the road hike through the swamps and lots of birds.
Lots of walking but worth it.

Great place to visit when its not too hot outside. It allows you to appreciate the natural beauty of the Everglades. It has only one shaded trail, but definitely a nice and relaxing encounter with nature.

Was one of my favorite places to visit and spend some quiet time when I used to live in south Florida. The visitors center is nice too!

We came to see gators and we saw gators, so it was good!

Honestly I didn't love it. The visitor center is truly awesome. The land itself didn't do much for me. Maybe the kayaking can be fun.

Beautiful, peaceful. So many lovely birds. Great for sunsets.

Insufficient info given at b store center by uninterested worker.

Great place to get away and see Florida's amazing nature and skies!

Nice place to catch wild life and beautiful sunsets

We spent nearly the entire day here! You can walk or bike the levee, fish, walk the boardwalk or marsh trail. Whatever you do, relax and enjoy natural beauty and wildlife! We got photos of baby armidillos and an alligator eating a long neck turtle. Then you can watch the sunset when it's all over!

Needs more rangers to police tourists who insist on feeding our gators. I visit once a week to get a few minutes of serenity.

This place was very nice. Wonderful to walk around. It's very quiet lots of critters to look at and a beautiful sunset.

Peaceful, calm and pretty. No alligators seen today. Good place to go for relaxation.

Excellent hiking trails. And a fun little visitor's center.

Place is great. Not very dog friendly. The park ranger was a total jerk. There is no clear signage about where you can walk a dog.

Great access to the Everglades. Wildlife everywhere. Helpful staff and volunteers.

One of Boynton's great hidden gems. Always nice to just get away from the city and breathe some natural air surrounded by beautiful cypress trees.

Don't miss the visitor center's night sounds of the Everglades experience!!!

Great bike and walking trails. If you have a few hours rent a canoe/kayak and take canoe trail for plenty of alligator sightings

Helpful staff, beautiful Park, with breath taking views of nature and wildlife

A nice, albeit small, inexpensive facility with a gorgeous nature walk. A few interactive exhibits with a nice aesthetic.

A beautiful glimpse of the real Florida right here in Boynton Beach.

A VERY special place to visit. So much to see and do.

Really nice educational place to view animals,thetes also a nice nature walk

Nice scenery. Saw a couple of Gators. Beautiful walk....

The visitor's center is pretty awesome, good exhibits, especially in the round room, and there's a half mile walk through the glades from there. Not much else to speak of. Saw one small gator and a big turtle. We were planning to rent canoes but someone who rented had to swim back because his boat sank. The other boats were all patched so we opted not to rent.

Little gem on the Everglades. Great explanatory videos and a few easy walking trails... plus wonderful, knowledgeable "interpretors" (Also bike and canoe trails but I didn't so those)

This place is amazing especially in cooler weather lots of Wildlife great landscape scenery a must go place will be back soon

It provides a perfect example of peace and serenity and the numerous trials provide an abundance of wildlife. If your interests lies with fishing there is an opportunity for fishing and boating. Great family experience.

Almost always see Gators here plus lots of bird species

It's a wonderful wildlife refuge on the edge of the everglades. The marsh trail has some fantastic wildlife.

I been here a few times and it's always a very enjoyable peaceful experience. One with nature. I do recommend visiting. Go to the nature center first and get a layout of the land so you know where to go and what you can see . Please respect the wildlife this is their home not yours!!!!

Nice trails, but admission is CASH ONLY! And they don t have an ATM, because apparently it s still the 1990s and an iPad with a card reader is too much of an inconvenience. Also your $10 single admission CANNOT be applied to the $25 yearly pass. Disappointing.

Great place! Lots of wildlife! Canoe and kayak rentals. Pack a lunch, bring water and wear comfy walking shoes.

Lot of walking paths on elevated berm areas but didn't see much wildlife this day !

we can experience a good walking in the field time....... its beautiful a preferable going in the day light ....

Great place for walking, birding, perhaps a little tiring for young children but there are facilities at the visitor center.

Hidden jem off 441 at Benders market. Canoe , kayak, fish, bike, nature everywhere. Bird paradise. Gators too. Go relax walk. See the indoor exibit. Must do for all nature buffs

This is an awesome area with lots of trails. The swamp trail is very interesting. Definitely worth going if coming to Florida for the whole experience

Love this place. Great place to be connected with nature.

Great walkways. I do prefer better on spring. Bird watching is very enjoyable on winter time.

I love to visit the Everglades but I don't often have the time to travel all the way down to Homestead. Fortunately for me the Loxahatchee Refuge is located a mere thirty minutes from where I live. It's located directly off of 441, about 20 minutes north of Glades Road directly behind Bedner farms which is a great place to grab a snack or drink before you go into the park.

Once you enter there a park service booth to the right. Admission is $5 but usually no one is present to collect the admission. A soon as you pass the booth turn to the right and there you will find the nature visitor center. There is some nice displays and a cute little movie where you sit in a fake air boat and the movie makes you feel like you are zipping through the Everglades. You will also find park rangers and volunteers here to answer any questions you have. The visitor center closes at 4 pm. Right behind the nature center are the bathrooms and the entrance to the Cypress trail which goes through the cypress swamp. The trail is a quick little ten minute walk on an elevated boardwalk. Very pretty. The trail winds around back to the start and when the nature center is open there are some rocking chairs on the back patio to enjoy.

Once you finish the nature center you hop back into the car and drive up to the next parking lot on the left. If it is July it is worth looking into the water on your left side. It's a popular place for alligators to nest and I have seen mom's and babies many times. You just want to give them a wide berth. Once you park you will see a trail to your left that makes a nice circle around the wet prairie habitat ending back at the parking lot. It's an easy twenty minute walk but there is no shade so I like it best in the winter. As you walk you will see many birds. Some that I see often are Anhingas, Great Blue Herons, and Great Egrets. I have also seen alligators and turtles swimming along. There is a small observation platform which gives a nice view of the wet prairie.

A short drive up the road leads to another parking lot on the left where there a covered pavilion that abuts the slough. If you peer over the railing there is usually an alligator or two lounging around. This area provides a beautiful view of the wet prairie. The last time I was there I saw a family feeding the alligators grapes. This was despite a large sign that says do not feed the alligators. The sign also showed a dead alligator that the park rangers had to kill because it had become a nuisance gator from people feeding it. Let's leave the wildlife wild folks.

At the very back of the refuge is the slough habitat. A lot of people bring their boats back here and it's a popular place to fish. There is place here that rents canoes and kayak and you can take the five mile canoe trail that runs through here. I did it once and took several hours. There was no shade which can be brutal. They lily pads also make it difficult to get through the water. The wildlife however was amazing and it made it worthwhile. I saw alligators swimming right next to my canoe as well as many kinds of birds. The canoe place also offers moonlight canoe trips which I have always wanted to take.

In February of every years the friends of Arthur R Marshall Refuge have an Everglades Day. A ton of people come so you have to park offsite and ride a bus. The event has free canoeing, guided nature walks, arts and crafts for the kids, vendors, and food trucks just to name a few things. Last year my friends bought some very nice binoculars which I am seriously thinking of purchasing this year. Although crowded it is a really fun day.

The Everglades is a very important part of the Florida ecosystem. Some changes are being proposed that may threaten the future of the refuge. I wrote this review because I hope more people will come visit and love it as much as I do. If you love it like me, then you will be invested in protecting it too.

this place is amazing and it is the best wildlife refuge i have been to. so much to see so many nice staff overall love it super educational and its is my second home.The staff was super educational and nice and treat everyone like a guest.

Great for fishing and catching an up close glimpse of a gator.

Love this place great place to get away from it all!

Nice park. Can't get anymore peaceful than there. We go out n fish on pontoon. Only boat for 5 hours there. Clean..I hear they are opening to jetskis in spring for revenue. Don't wanna think how that's gonna pan out.

Came to the park for the first time during the annual Everglades Day celebration. Had a fantastic time. Will be back to explore more.

It's Free!
They except pets!
It's Florida Wild!

Excellent place for hiking, kayaking and riding a bike

There was a mom alligator with a few babies, alot odd turtles. The weather wasn't too bad.

This place is beautiful for walks, biking, sunsets and photography! I'm always coming out here!

Very green place, definitely one of most nice trail i visited, i reccomend

Gorgeous nature. Support our National Parks before the Republicans sell them all off.

I can't give this place a fair rating because at the time I was there , the place looked deserted. There were, " No Fishing" signs posted, certain areas were closed off due to signs saying people had been feeding the Gators and atgonizing them. The canoe rental area was locked up and I only seen two other people there in the area. I'm not sure how long it will be like that but right now it's a little disappointing seeing it so desolate.

This state park has so much to offer includeing boardwalks, photogrophy contests, boat ramps and so much more. If you are lucky there is a 13+ foot aligator named George that loves to hang around the dock area south of the boat ramps. There is a ~2 mile trail that i love to walk everytime i got this trail can have many types of animals and so many nice pictures can be taken within this trail. If you want to learn more about things you may have seen you can go to the visitors center with has so much information and models of the animals and plants. There is also an airboat simulation you can try out in this visitors center.

GREAT spot for nature photography! No crowds, power poles, or other distractions. Highly recommended!

It was wonderful as usual and a bonus to see The baby gators that hatch last month doing so well.

Best educational vacation field trip my family and I have been in. We loved it.

Park very playful with ballad and snorkeling on the coral reef. Superb and affordable even without experience.

Don't miss out! See the beautiful lands that belong to all Americans. You'll surely see at least one gator and more!

This place was amazing, rent a canoe and see the gators

Definitly visit in the winter and not in the summer heat. We rented canoes and rowed the waterways. The rental company was very helpful with setting us up and giving instructions and directions. Unfortunately, while we were there for 2 hours+ we did not see any alligators or much of any wildlife.

Beautiful hiking and pristine natural habitat with lots of wildlife. The fishing is great.