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CREW Trust’s mission is to preserve and steward the Corkscrew Regional Ecosystem Watershed
4 trail systems | 40 miles of trails | Infinite Adventures
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Updated Timeline Below! ⬇️The new boardwalk is coming along! 🥳🛠️🥾Progress continues on the brand-new boardwalk at CREW B...
08/20/2026

Updated Timeline Below! ⬇️

The new boardwalk is coming along! 🥳🛠️🥾

Progress continues on the brand-new boardwalk at CREW Bird Rookery Swamp Trail! The foundation is being laid and the decking is starting to go in over completed areas! Very exciting! 🎉

As of this week, the contractor is ahead of schedule and is projecting the new boardwalk to be opened before the end of the year. ☀️

As a reminder, the loop and trail east of the boardwalk remain OPEN for recreational access from the Purple Trail at CREW Flint Pen Strand Trails

🔗 For more information, please visit www.crewtrust.org

📸: CREW Trust Volunteer Sean Hunt

All About Aquifers 💧🌿🪨Join us for a wet walk at CREW Flint Pen Strand Trails and explore the ecosystems that provide Sou...
08/18/2026

All About Aquifers 💧🌿🪨

Join us for a wet walk at CREW Flint Pen Strand Trails and explore the ecosystems that provide Southwest Florida’s drinking water🚰

On this walk, we’ll traverse a seasonal marsh, cypress swamp, and pine flatwood, three wetland ecosystems that help replenish our aquifers - the source of Southwest Florida’s drinking water 💧

Together, we’ll explore these unique ecosystems and discover just how important they are to our Southwest Florida community! 🌿

🗓️ Wednesday, September 2nd
🕐 8:00 AM - 11:00 AM
📍 CREW Flint Pen Strand Trails
🅿️ Pinewoods Parking Lot

🎟️ For tickets and more info, visit the link in our bio or crewtrust.eventbrite.com

Today, we’re celebrating International Youth Day by announcing our spring field trips are officially FULL! 🥳Every year, ...
08/12/2026

Today, we’re celebrating International Youth Day by announcing our spring field trips are officially FULL! 🥳

Every year, 800+ elementary students visit the CREW trails to explore the wild spaces right here in Southwest Florida! ☀️

During our fall program, Walk Through a Watershed, 3rd graders discover the critical role that aquifers and the wetlands that sustain them play in sustaining our Southwest Florida community 💧

On our spring field trip, Soil ROCKS!, 2nd graders learn to unearth the connections between the soil, plants, and wildlife of three Southwest Florida ecosystems at CREW! 🌿

Connecting Southwest Florida’s youth with the CREW lands is a core tenant of CREW Trust’s mission, and we can’t wait for another great year of field trips ahead doing just that! 🎉

👉 Teachers, we still have a few dates available for Walk Through a Watershed this fall! If you’re interested in bringing your class to CREW, email [email protected]
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Both Soil ROCKS! and Walk through a Watershed are available at no cost to the schools thanks to the generosity of our CREW Trust members and sponsors! 🫶

📸: CREW Trust staff

Dust off your clubs, the golf tournament is right around the corner! 🏌️CREW Trust’s 16th annual Stanley Hole Golf Tourna...
08/11/2026

Dust off your clubs, the golf tournament is right around the corner! 🏌️

CREW Trust’s 16th annual Stanley Hole Golf Tournament will be held on Friday, October 16th. The tournament will be the same great format supporting the same great cause but at an exciting new venue! 🥳
 
This year’s tournament will be held at the Bonita Bay Club’s Naples campus, located off Immokalee Road. Players will tackle the Cypress Course, an exclusive, Tom Fazio-designed 18-hole championship course featuring rolling fairways, undulating greens, unique bunkering, and stunning sweeping vistas ⛳️
 
This tournament is CREW Trust’s most important fundraiser of the year because it directly supports our environmental education programs! 🌿
 
Each year, CREW Trust’s trail-based environmental education programs host hundreds of children, young adults, and lifelong learners. These programs are designed to build a foundation of scientific and ecological literacy in participants and ultimately inspire them to use that knowledge to advocate for the continued preservation and stewardship of CREW

Our goal is to safely introduce youth and adults to wild spaces, establish positive associations with the natural world, stimulate curiosity and wonder, and nurture connections to the land and water on which we all depend!💧
 
By playing in and/or sponsoring this year’s tournament, you’re helping ensure CREW Trust can continue to offer the highest quality programs at no cost to children from throughout Lee, Collier and Hendry counties! 🫶
 
On behalf of the CREW Trust team, we’re looking forward to seeing you again this year! 🎉
 
To learn more about the tournament, please visit https://crewtrust.org/2021-crew-stanley-hole-golf-tournament-2/

Download the registration form here:https://crewtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/16th-CREW-Trust-Golf-Tournament-Registration.pdf

08/10/2026

Morning, noon, or night, there’s always someone on the CREW trails! ☀️🌙

While the CREW trails are open to visitors each day from sunrise to sunset, CREW’s residents roam our 40+ miles of trails at any hour that suits them! 🫶

Residents spotted on the trails:
🐾 Osceola turkey & chicks
🐾 White-tailed deer
🐾 Bobcat
🐾 Florida black bear
🐾 Florida panther

Thank you to Tom Mortenson for his long-term wildlife monitoring at CREW and for providing these phenomenal videos! 🥳🎥

It’s always a good day for a dissection at CREW! 🔎Last month, Piper Jones, CREW Trust’s Education Coordinator, led a han...
08/07/2026

It’s always a good day for a dissection at CREW! 🔎

Last month, Piper Jones, CREW Trust’s Education Coordinator, led a hands-on barn owl pellet dissection where participants unearthed bones, fur, teeth, and even a skull from the previous meals of our favorite nighttime flyers! 🦉

Owls use their special second stomachs, their gizzards, to compact the undigestible parts of their prey into pellets, which they then “cast” (vomit) back out. Most owls cast 1-2 pellets a day, and they serve as important predator controls on rodent populations! 🐀

Thank you to Piper for leading this immersive program, to the Bonita Springs Estero Realtors for hosting us, and to our fantastic participants for digging dissections as much as we do! 🥳
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👉Next up: it’s all about alligators! Join us to learn about the dinosaurs of the swamp on Thursday, Aug 20 from 10:30 AM -12 PM! Tickets are available (and going fast!) at crewtrust.eventbrite.com

📸: CREW Trust staff

CREW Archery hunt season opens Saturday ⚠️ On Sat, Aug 8th, the 2026-27CREW Archery hunt season will OPENThe season will...
08/07/2026

CREW Archery hunt season opens Saturday ⚠️

On Sat, Aug 8th, the 2026-27
CREW Archery hunt season will OPEN

The season will CLOSE on Sun, Aug 16th at the end of the day

CREW Cypress Dome Trails, Caracara Prairie Preserve, and CREW Flint Pen Strand Trails
have hunt zones that overlap with trails. See maps for exact hunt zones

Specific quota permits and licenses are required

Visitors not participating in active hunt seasons are encouraged to visit other CREW trail systems during active hunt seasons

👉 For more info on CREW hunt seasons, visit myfwc.com/recreation/cooperative/crew/

Looking to support our work? Consider becoming a member! 🥳CREW Trust memberships directly support our youth education pr...
08/05/2026

Looking to support our work? Consider becoming a member! 🥳

CREW Trust memberships directly support our youth education programs, which bring 800+ elementary students to the CREW trails each year at no cost to the schools! 🌿

As a thank you for your support, our members receive discounts on public programs as well as access to free Members-Only events each season! 🎉

Its going to be another great season out on the trails, and we hope you’ll consider becoming one of the CREW! 🫶

Join today at the link in our bio or crewtrust.org

Your August trail conditions are here! 🌿 August Hunt Season: Archery ⚠️🗓️ Sat Aug 8 - Sun Aug 16📍CREW Cypress Dome Trail...
08/04/2026

Your August trail conditions are here! 🌿

August Hunt Season: Archery ⚠️
🗓️ Sat Aug 8 - Sun Aug 16
📍CREW Cypress Dome Trails, Caracara Prairie Preserve & CREW Flint Pen Strand Trails
👉 For more info, please visit myFWC.com/recreation/cooperative/crew/

⚠️ CREW Bird Rookery Swamp Trail parking lot and boardwalk are CLOSED through early 2027 ⚠️

👀 See something amiss on the trails? Email [email protected] to report trail conditions!

⚒️ Interested in helping maintain our 40+ miles of trails? Email [email protected] to start your volunteer journey today!

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