Do you enjoy hiking? Are you close to Mobile, AL (specifically, are you close to here)? Why not give the Muddy Creek Wetlands Management Area a try.
My family and I have visited Muddy Creek several times within the past few months. For the first 18 or so years of my life, I lived within 6 miles of this place but did not find out about it until this year. Better late than never…
What is the Muddy Creek Wetlands Management Area? According to the State Port Authority and the sign at the entrance:
This 200 acre tract is owned and managed by the Alabama State Port Authority as a natural area available to the public for hiking, wildlife observation, environmental education, and scientific research.
The mitigation area was established to mitigate, or make up for, unavoidable wetland impacts occurring on State Port Authority project sites
The forests and fields found here are being restored to a close approximation of their natural conditions through the removal of invasive exotic plants and the replanting of native species. A diligent monitoring program insures that exotic species do not re-invade while the new plant communities are becoming established.