*Please note: trail sections on the beach and those behind the dune are through soft sand and may not be accessible by visitors with strollers or wheelchairs. A State Park Connection Trail connects the Preserve’s Main Trail to the trail system of Cape May Point State Park. Enhancements at the entrance and along the pathway include a welcome shed with green roof, a rain garden, purple martin houses, raised wildlife viewing platform, osprey platform with streaming camera, benches, interpretive signs and an 80-foot bird blind. The preserve’s one-mile trail loops from the entrance through the wetland to the beachfront and back, consisting mostly of stable, hard-packed ground* with bridges across the levees. River otters and muskrats swim in the wetland, deer and foxes move through the dunes, eastern box turtles saunter across trails, and monarch butterflies descend during fall migration.Ĭheck out recent bird sightings and report your own! Raptors soar in the skies and hunt in the meadows, songbirds flutter among the native plants, and waterfowl rest and feed in the freshwater ponds.
The beachfront supports a diverse shore plant community including seaside goldenrod, beach heather, sea rocket and several varieties of primrose.Īnimals: Imperiled shorebirds like federally endangered piping plovers, state-endangered least terns and American oystercatchers, a species of special concern, nest on the preserve’s stretch of sandy beach. Along the trails and throughout the meadow, visitors can enjoy a variety of waving grasses, rushes and sedges along with wildflowers including marsh pink, blue mist flower and seaside fleabane.
Plants: An invasive reed called Phragmites once overtook the site’s freshwater plant community, but thanks to restoration efforts native rose mallow and cattails now flourish.
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