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The entrance sign off Highway 57.
A restroom and shower at the campground area.
The campground area.
A fire pit and pavilion in the campground.
Travis McNatt Lake.
The beginning of the Park Trail near the boat launch.
A view of a trail bridge over the lake.
Wild black-eyed susans (Rudbeckia hirta).
A trail bridge off of Park Trail.
Big Hill Pond trail marker.
On the Big Hill Pond Trail.
The first intersection marker toward the tower.
Heading south on Big Hill Pond Trail.
Views of the forest.
The forest is dense.
A beautiful spider.
The crossing sign of three of the main trails.
An unidentified mushroom.
Ash and elm trees dominate the canopy.
A crossing sign at the top of the Levee Parking Area.
Heading south on Azalea Spring Day Loop.
The trail is well maintained.
A rock that looks like petrified wood.
A crossing sign to the tower.
The Cypress Dismal Swamp Boardwalk.
The cypress tree grove looking northeast.
Looking southwest at the cypress tree grove.
A copperhead snake in a stream.
A boardwalk.
A white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) doe.
Wild petunia.
Ash and elm trees dominate the canopy.
The last crossing sign to the tower.
The view from the tower.
A view of Big Hill Pond from the tower.
The view from dam levee.
Butterfly pea.