Extremely rude guide ruins the beauty of the preserve. The first thing I heard as we got out was the guide yelling at a group of boys trying to find a place to fish, when it's not posted no fishing; then as we figuring out where we were headed next the same guide walked and yelled at us directly for making sandwiches in our car and being to loud while feeding my baby niece.
This place is absolutely the worst place EVER!! Rude staff!! We pulled in not knowing that the park was closed. A man comes flying up on his little scooter because he was lazy, screaming at us to leave. The man acted psychotic screaming "LEAVE NOW* when I asked what his name was. The park needs to reevaluate their park rangers. Scary!! I would not trust my kids around this man.
Absolutely beautiful and fantastic nature filled preserve. Unfortunately it was overshadowed by rude treatment from the naturalist. We had several well behaved young children with us and were confronted by the naturalist for being too loud (children expressing excitement over seeing baby toads and orange mushrooms). Ironically while he was rude about our noise level disturbing others/nature he was running a chainsaw the entire time we were hiking. After expressing his disdain for the kids voice levels, he went on to chastise us for not being on the trails. We had followed the clearly marked boardwalk sign and arrows and did not stray from the path, so Im still stumped on what he was referring to in his condescending rant. After our hike, we looked at the map as well and the trail we took was on it. I am very saddened that such a beautiful place was overshadowed by poor social skills and in looking at other reviews this is not unusual. I have also spoken to some locals and it seems this naturalist has a reputation for being rude, especially to groups with children. I love nature and teaching my kids about it and how to correctly enjoy it and appreciate it. This is not a place with the freedom to do that with young children. If you are adults only I recommend checking this out, but if you have kids I would avoid it until the current naturalist retires.
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