We visited in January on a warm, sunny day. There is a small car park with a display board of what visitors may see in the natural area. The path divides and offers walking a bicycling routes. The easy to understand signs are beyond the understanding of some as the only people we saw on our walk around were two riding bikes on the foot only routes. Walking quietly and keeping an eye on the underbrush for animal life the walk was leisurely and uninterrupted by sight of wild animal, annoying insect or bird. The only live thing besides plant life was a Zebra Longwing butterfly. I would say there were two except the first sighting was on the way in and the second sighting was on the way out so it may have been the same one! Never the less, even without seeing wild life the topography and plants were such that it was a fascinating way to see what Florida looked like before it was manicured to look like golf courses interspersed with houses and strip malls. Well worth an hour or less of your time, though given the scarcity of people don't wander around on your own or at night.

In town and off the beaten path. Plenty of endangered plants and critters than co-habit this half acre site. Nice paved walkways. Great place to relax and walk.

Nice place to go for a walk and see some nature. If you are lucky you will get to see the big tortoise. However, very hot in the summer and lots of biting flys in the summer.

This a 54 acre preserve that protects the rare scrub habitat which formed on top of sand dunes when the sea level fell. There aren't very many of these communities left because since they were on high land and dry they were the first to be used for commercial development. There is less than 2 percent of the original scrub habitat left in Palm Beach. I came to explore the area because it is listed as a site on the Great Florida Birding and Wildlife Trail which is a network of 510 place to view wildlife across the state. Seacrest has a parking lot, bicycle rack, and an educational board. There is a gate to the trails that has a sign urging you to keep it closed to protect the gopher tortoises in the preserve from getting out. There are two trails, a paved nature trail that is .18 miles and a natural earth hiking trail that is 1.15 miles. The hiking trail is where you would need to go to see wildlife. Seacrest is home to several protected plants and animals such as the gopher tortoise. I was lucky enough to see one at the end of my hike. I also saw a cardinal in a tree. Some of the plants I saw were American Beautyberry, slash pines with their pine cones which were used by settlers for lumber, sand pines, and pokeweed which has purple and black berries that feed wildlife but are poisonous to humans. Seacrest is home to hundreds of species of plants and animals. Some mammals you might see include the Gray Fox, armadillos, Gray Squirrels, and raccoons. Unfortunately the natural area is also home to Golden Orb Spiders also known as Banana Spiders. I have never seen so many in one place. They were everywhere in the trees. If you have arachnophobia stay far away from here. Except for the spiders I enjoyed my hike here. Since the scrub pine is on top of dunes there was an incline on part of the hike. I will be back to explore more of the area when the weather cools down. Kudos to Palm Beach for saving and protecting this ecologically important area.

one of the few places in Florida where I did not see litter everywhere, no plastic cups, bags, food boxes in the vegetation - big kudos to the visitors and to PBC