Snake Warrior’s Island Natural Area

53.3 acres in size. Atlantic coastal ridge, archaeological islands, lake, and eight created wetlands. Vegetation: Live oak, gumbo limbo, redbay, strangler fig, cypress, red maple, wild coffee, beautyberry, fire bush, pickerel weed, eel grass, alligator flag, spatterdock, duck potato, and rushes. Great site to observe wading birds and ducks, wood storks, little blue and tricolored herons, anhinga, white ibis, and osprey. A stop on the Great Florida Birding Trail.
Protecting what was once the headwaters of Snake Creek and was the oldest eastern Glades settlement of the Seminoles, Snake Warrior Island Natural Area is a small urban oasis not far from I-​95 in Miramar.
Concrete trail, interpretive signage, shelter, benches, and picnic tables.