Estero Bay Preserve State Park
IUCN category IV (habitat/species management area)
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Location	Lee County, Florida, USA
Nearest city	Estero, Florida
Coordinates	26°23′49″N 81°51′34″W / 26.39694°N 81.85944°W / 26.39694; -81.85944
Area	10,000 acres (40 km2)
Governing body	Florida Department of Environmental Protection

Estero Bay Preserve State Park, the first aquatic nature preserve established in Florida, is a 10,000-acre (40 km²) Florida State Park located near Estero, between Fort Myers and Naples. It consists of the water, inlets, and islands along 10 miles (16 km) of Estero Bay. Activities include fishing, and boating, bicycling, canoeing, and wildlife viewing. Among the wildlife of the park are gopher tortoises, fiddler crabs, and bald eagles. The park is open from 8:00 A.M. until sundown year-round.

The old rail bed of the Seaboard Air Line Railway can be found near the Florida Power and Light easement headed northwest. This section has now been orphaned as developments to the north and south have isolated this section. The Seaboard Air Line Railway was once one of two railroads that served southwest Florida and serves as a point of interest in the park on a hike.

• Twisted air plant: State Threatened
• Giant wild pine: State Endangered

• Red knot: Federally Threatened
• Snowy plover: State Threatened
• Piping plover: Federally Threatened
• Marian's marsh wren: State Threatened
• Little blue heron: State Threatened
• Reddish egret: State Threatened
• Tricolored heron: State Threatened
• Southeastern American kestrel: State Threatened
• American oystercatcher: State Threatened
• Wood stork: Federally Threatened
• Roseate spoonbill: State Threatened
• Black skimmer: State Threatened
• Least tern: State Threatened
• Roseate tern: Federally Threatened

• American alligator: Federally Threatened (similarity of appearance to Threatened Species)
• Atlantic loggerhead turtle: Federally Threatened
• Atlantic green turtle: Federally Threatened
• American crocodile: Federally Threatened
• Leatherback turtle: Federally Endangered
• Atlantic hawksbill turtle: Federally Endangered
• Kemp's ridley turtle: Federally Endangered

• Big Cypress fox squirrel: State Threatened
• Florida manatee: Federally Threatened

• Smalltooth sawfish: Federally Endangered
• Sea Nettle: (type of Jellyfish)

• Estero Bay Preserve State Park at Florida State Parks

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