Mysterious Twin Swamps Nature Preserve (Mount Vernon, Indiana)
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
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On the far south western part of Indiana, passed Evansville and even Mount Vernon, is a mysterious place that belongs more in Florida, than Indiana: the Twin Swamps Nature Preserve. 3/4 mile into the woods is a cypress swamp, that is incredibly beautiful if not misplaced by nature!
Though parts of the trail are above the water, on pleasant boardwalks, large portions are wet and muddy: waterproof boots are highly recommended! But it is absolutely worth the effort to see one of the most beautiful parts of Southern Indiana.
We finally decided to go on an adventure and try to find this place! We had a super fun time! They are rebuilding the boardwalk brand new. It was all new up to the observation deck which hasn’t been rebuilt yet. Never seen anything like it in Indiana!
I am so glad to hear it! I was really impressed when I visited, was hoping they’d even expand the boardwalk, as there were some really muddy spots to still navigate
@@AdventureswithRoger soi used to live on a road near that we where a farmer family and this place was a good place to get things off your chest like if you got in a argument
@@I_dont_know_what_iam We all need a place like that!
me and my dad (lived in mt vernon his whole life) where getting food when we started talking about places ive never been, he then realized i had never been to the Twin Swamps, so we went , the new decks are very nice, higher above the ground incase of flooding, unfortunately when we went it what SUPER rainy, the path way was so flooded and we weren’t in proper gear but glad i could find this video!
edit: at 2:16 we walked passed these planks! they where floating over the water
I know I really enjoyed my visit. I’d been warned about mud and bugs, but mud and poison ivy were my only obstacles. I really should go again. 🙂
I love watching these videos. So interesting.
I really enjoy these videos! I used to live in Southern Indiana and didn’t know about all these interesting places. Keep it up!
Your gracious comment is why I do these! Thank-you! I have been filming again, have found much more. Lots of editing to come! 🙂
Wow. I had no idea that existed. Thanks for sharing
I've lived in this area all my life. It is a great place to live and visit.
I really enjoyed the quiet of Mount Vernon, to north of 64, in the oil fields. People that live in big cities should come down and experience that strange sense of emptiness. I thought it was a good way to clean out my brain, would recommend to anyone!
@@AdventureswithRoger I live 1 block from Raben Road, I have no neighbors in sight. The peace from the area is amazing.
I was down that way several times in 2020 and 2021. I never saw more than two people at the dam, and only a few at the swamp. I met a delightful couple there, and we sat at the far back deck area, and spoke for maybe an hour or so. We were all just sick of being isolated, and it was great to talk! I just couldn’t get over the immense quiet. Absolutely love it! 🙂
This place looks amazing! I will be visiting. Thanks for sharing.
Very cool place in the middle of nowhere! Definitely bring waterproof boots 🙂. The dam is a short drive away, where you can see the Ohio and Wabash rivers merge: an amazing view, especially at sunset. And they have modern restrooms!
Hovey Lake is also there, with trees growing out of the water, a very beautiful place as well.
you got on this one i never been there but now i have thank you
It’s a beautiful place, but very wet and muddy at places! I went at the height of the pandemic, and met a really nice married couple, way in the back of the swamp. We sat on the the overlook and talked a good hour, all three of us were so tired of staying indoors! I’ll never forget them. 🙂
My family lives in Point Township. I grew up there. Right down the road from where your filming.
I was blown away by the swamp, and how much it looked like the Florida Everglades! Hovey Lake was also nice. But perhaps the most surreal thing was going to the locks of an evening, with only one other car, probably that of an employee. There’s a gentle hum and the view above the river is amazing, a highlight of my adventures across Southern Indiana.
@@AdventureswithRoger the dam has always been a great place to "get away". It was my thinking spot for a lot of years.
That's a great place, thanks for the video. It reminds me of the Cache River Wetlands - America's northernmost cypress/tupelo swamp in Southern Illinois.
My pleasure to share! I’d wanted to visit for maybe a year after I’d read about it. I only found one rough map and no CZcams videos, so decided I’d make one for everyone else wanting to see something really unique. I’ll especially enjoy watching it when the snow is blowing in the winter! ☺️
@@AdventureswithRoger Well, you certainly made a great video about it. Now people will know more about it. Southern Indiana has a lot of great places, and I've enjoyed some of your videos on them. Still got more to watch though, lol.
Much more to come! I really enjoy getting out there and seeing something different, meeting families, couples married for 30 years and just taking a hike. I especially enjoy hearing from people that can’t get out like they used to, that tell me it was like being there again. That’s why I do it. 🙂
I used to go there a lot when I lived in Posey county, great place
I thought it was one of the coolest places I’ve ever been in Indiana. Just an incredible surprise!
This place is so cool
Really a surprise in Southern Indiana!
Hi. I lived a couple of miles from there. Also there are indian burial mounds in that area. This is a lowland. Means native Americans thrived there. Also a huge lake is 2 miles away. Biggest in south Indiana. Also!! Wabash and Ohio rivers meet!!!! Lake means fish and baths for me and native Americans of the past. Rivers were to swift. And a halfmoon pond 5 miles away. Coal is huge across at Kentucky. Coal conveyor n area. Mound is near sabic company. And I'm gods holy son. I gave sheep covid cure information. And carrots burn Asian carp and other solutions. Thanks. Righteousness n golden rule guides. Out side pray. mobs stalk. evil tricks. Rev 12:4. Col311. Cocoon.
Why would swamps and sloughs be "out of place" in Southern Indiana between Wabash and Ohio rivers with so many oxbow lakes and creeks descending down from higher elevation geography?
The region is full of sloughs, ponds, wetlands and natural salt springs.Southern Illinois as well has salt springs that were part of a big industry at one time in colonial America. There still exist in Illinois near Shawneetown the evaporation pools that were built out of rock, where the workers channeled the salt water for evaporating the water and leaving the salt. Salt was a big commodity back in colonial and pioneer periods and worth good money for the efforts.
That aside, in Evansville, IN were various saline springs that were known and used for public bathing and one was used i think for removing the salt from as a business.
Near Wesselman Woods nature preserve, the golf course and the areas surrounding ,before the housing developments, it was all wetlands and ponds due to freshwater springs.
Where the old Roberts Stadium stood, most of the seats and lower levels of the main event floor were built down into the ground. It was an interesting place.
but what was more amazing, is due to the springs that moved through the ground there, thet had to build a huge pumping apparatus into the subfloor areas to continuously remove water that was constantly moving around through the ground and would have flooded the stadium if it was not operating.
Its sad that we have lost so much of our wetlands throughout S. Indiana and through further north Indiana also as Ive read that Indiana was known for its wetlands and springs throughout much of the state, which the latter were also related to caverns of the karst geology.
With so many big rivers throughout Indiana, the White, the Patoka, The Blue, Wabash, the Maumee, there were also a lot of large swamps, wetlands, bogs in many areas.
Indiana has swamps in lots of places, but Twin Swamps was remarkable to me, in both beauty and fauna. It is pretty far north for bald cypress if you look at a dispersion map. I hear there’s a bald cypress area near east central Indiana, but it sounds like someone planted it. All I know is that driving to Mount Vernon is a whole lot closer than Florida. 🙂
That reminds me of Ding Darling and Six Mile Slough in Ft Myers.
As a life-long resident of Indiana, that’s hiked a lot of woods across the state, I found Twin Swamps magical, and like nothing else I’d ever seen. It’s a true gem!
@Adventures with Roger I'm a lifelong resident who loves to hike, too. I need to go hike this!
If you do, bring waterproof boots. And if it’s summer, bring bug spray. I lucked out, and didn’t experience any bugs, but I did hit many wet and muddy stretches of the trail.
What the heck, I grew up in mt vernon and never heard of this.
I get these kinds of comments a lot! “I’ve lived down here 45 years and never knew this place existed.” Many places are not marked well at all, it’s just word of mouth.
Anyways, thanks for watching! I have a Mount Vernon segment coming up in the next few weeks.
Same here! I’m determined to find it this summer
I couldn't imagine putting up a netted hammock and staying then night there by yourself.
For a fact, you’d hear every single footstep and slither around you in the night. Not my first choice for camping! 😄
❤wow!!!
I visited during the start of the pandemic. Met a nice couple at the very back of the preserve, and we spoke a long time, sitting on the observation deck. One of my fondest memories.
@@AdventureswithRoger isn't those random meetings always a blessing. We never know if they are angels in disguise☺️
@tenessasutton8579 They were super nice people, for sure. 🙂
I knew Indiana had some indigenous Cypress but I'd never seen any.
It really did have a Florida vibe to it. And usually deserted! But met a nice couple, last time, and shared travel stories
@@AdventureswithRoger There are cypress trees and knees at Cope Environmental Center west of Richmond, In. on 40.
@@rebeccajames1 I’d never heard of CEC before! Thank-you! I just looked up their website