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The swamp garden is named for ornithologist and artist John James Audubon, who visited the plantation before the Civil War and is said to have collected waterfowl specimens there as models for his paintings. Director Wes Craven made use of the site while filming the 1982 horror film Swamp Thing. [1] The site also served as inspiration for Shrek ...
Miller Springs Nature Center: Lake Belton: Bell: Texas Hill Country: website, A 260-acre scenic natural area located between the Leon River and nearby 40 foot high bluffs with 10.7 miles of hike and bike trails through prairie, wetlands and forests. Mitchell Lake Audubon Center: San Antonio: Bexar: Central Texas
Magnolia Plantation and Gardens (464 acres, 187.77 hectares) is a historic house with gardens located on the Ashley River at 3550 Ashley River Road west of Ashley, Charleston County, South Carolina. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is one of the oldest plantations in the South, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places .
Mitchell Lake is a small lake in the southern part of San Antonio that encompasses approximately 600 acres (2.4 km 2) within its city limits, in southern Bexar County in the US state of Texas. It was used as a waste management center for the city but has since fallen under San Antonio Water System control.
Features include 7.5 miles (12.1 km) of trails, two playscapes on either side of the park, a nature play area for children, dog parks on both sides of the park, picnic facilities, basketball courts, an outdoor classroom, a children's vegetable garden, a wildscape demonstration garden, a restored wetland, the Salado Creek overlook, the Skywalk, and the Robert L.B Tobin Land Bridge.
Located at the Texas travel center from I-10, on the west side of the Sabine River. There is a 600 ft boardwalk leading from the travel center building into the swamp for wildlife viewing. [57] Area 4 Welder Flats WMA Calhoun County: 1480 acres Owned by the General Land Office. Viewing of the endangered whooping crane. [58] Area 4 White Oak ...
Knowing that the area where Kya lives should be near a coastal town, be about two hours or less from Greenville and have both marsh and swamp wetlands, we propose two probable locations for ...
The park is in the transition zone between the flat South Texas region and the Texas Hill Country. The parking lot is at 1,140 feet (350 m) elevation above sea level and 500 feet (150 m) above the San Antonio River in Downtown San Antonio. The highest hill in the park is 285 feet (87 m) higher (1425 feet above sea level).