St. Jones Reserve and Ted Harvey Wildlife Area: A Stunning Morning Walk
One of the views along St. Jones Reserve's nature trail We spent 2020’s first day of Fall on one of the most beautiful and memorable walks we’ve ever taken, on a nature trail through St. Jones Reserve and Ted Harvey Conservation Area. St. Jones Reserve is on Kitts Hummock Road, just past John Dickinson Plantation. It’s part of the Delaware National Estuarine Research Reserve, so there’s research going on here as well as environmental protection and education. Estuaries are the intersections of land, fresh water, and salt water. St. Jones Reserve includes fresh water from the St. Jones River and its tributaries, salt marshes fed by the Delaware Bay, and forested and open land. The nature trail is to the right of the Center for Estuarine Studies, which was closed when we visited because of the pandemic. St. Jones Center for Estuarine Studies The trail begins just past a native plant garden. St. Jones native plant garden Part of the trail is a boardwalk over salt mar...