Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary boardwalk
— the cypress that stood through every century.
Not only on a wall.
Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary boardwalk, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.
Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.
“A 2.25-mile boardwalk through the largest remaining stand of old-growth bald cypress in North America, some trees more than 500 years old and 130 feet tall. The Audubon sanctuary covers 13,000 acres of the western Everglades watershed and holds the country's largest nesting colony of wood storks. The boardwalk turns a swamp into something a visitor can walk into without breaking it; the silence under the cypress canopy is the loudest thing about the place. from the studio
The place, in three passes.
Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary covers about 13,000 acres of cypress strand, wet prairie, and pine flatwoods in northern Collier County, Florida, roughly 30 miles east of Naples and inside the larger Western Everglades watershed. The National Audubon Society established the sanctuary in 1954 to protect the last unlogged stand of old-growth bald cypress in the country. The 2.25-mile elevated boardwalk loops through bald cypress, pond cypress, wet prairie, and marsh, with the deepest cypress holding trees more than 500 years old and reaching about 130 feet in height.
The old-growth cypress sits low and broad enough to absorb sound; the boardwalk's soft wood underfoot keeps boot noise down, and the canopy layers above filter out highway and farm. Wood storks, the federally listed wading bird that gave Corkscrew its conservation founding case, nest in the strand by the hundreds. Painted buntings, barred owls, and the occasional Florida black bear move through. The signage asks visitors to keep to a whisper; most do, because the swamp asks it before the sign does, and the silence is the part that stays with people.
The sanctuary is open daily, generally 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. with the boardwalk closing at 5 p.m. in season. Adult admission in 2025 runs $17, with reduced rates for college students, children, and Audubon members. The Blair Audubon Center at the trailhead holds a small natural history exhibit and a bookstore. The boardwalk is fully ADA-accessible, the full loop takes most visitors about two to three hours at a careful pace, and dry-season mornings between January and April bring the highest concentration of wading birds.
