Founded in 1821 and destroyed in the Seminole Indian War, the Bulow Plantation Ruins State Historic Site includes sugar mill ruins, nature trails, and an open-air museum, as well as opportunities for picnicking, canoeing, fishing, and hiking. Visitors can take a scenic walking trail or drive the loop road to the Sugar Mill Ruins and learn about the plantation's history at the interpretive center. Other remains, such as the wells, springhouse, foundation stones, and slave cabins, give visitors a glimpse of life on a prosperous plantation.
Paddlers will want to take advantage of the seven-mile Bulow Creek Canoe Trail, which affords a scenic journey through grassy coastal marshes and the chance to see a variety of wildlife, including osprey, wild hog, bald eagles, alligators, and manatees. The Bulow Woods Trail offers hikers seven miles of beautiful scenery and wildlife sightings as it winds its way through open woods, around massive tree trunks, and under a gorgeous canopy of leaves at Live Oaks, before ending at the famous Fairchild Oak in Bulow Creek State Park.
