The Conservancy's Briggs Nature Center is off State Road 951 in the 12,700-acre Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Children under 3 and Conservancy members admitted free. The trails are free and open to the public seven days a week, sunrise to sunset. The CREW Trust, formed in 1989, assists with wetlands acquisition, management and public use activities in Lee and Collier counties. From Interstate 75, take exit 19 and travel east for approximately 18 miles.
Entrance is on right.
Entrance is approximately 1.5 miles on left. The sanctuary is home to hundreds of alligators, whitetail deer, river otter, various turtles, Florida black bear and almost 200 species of birds, including egrets, ibis, herons and wood storks. There is also a one-mile trail with interpretive panels and handicapped access. Shelling is usually good, and while swimmers are not allowed in the dangerous currents of Wiggins Pass, fishing is allowed there. Swimmers may go into the Gulf of Mexico on the south side of the pass.