HIKING: Brooker Creek Headwaters

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Description

1111-acre sanctuary is the headwaters of the Brooker Creek Watershed, which flows westward to Lake Tarpon and into Upper Tampa Bay. The site is managed for threatened plants and animals such as the hooded pitcher plant, Southern pine lily, and gopher tortoise. Natural plant communities are quite varied within the preserve. Cypress swamps, pine flatwoods, and oak hammocks are home to deer, turkey, bobcats, foxes, and coyotes. The wooded areas that border either side of Ramblewood Road include oak scrub, a rare plant community.

Directions

18102 Ramblewood Road Lutz, FL 33558<br /><br />Ramblewood Road is located approximately 2/5 of a mile west of the Suncoast Parkway and 1 1/4 mile east of Gunn Highway on the north side of Van Dyke Road.

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