A truly unique botanical garden, the twelve-acre Sugar Mill Gardens features not only native vegetation, plants, and flowers, but also the ruins of outbuildings and equipment of the 19th-century Dunlawton Sugar Mill. For a relaxing stroll, visitors can follow the shell paths that meander through the lush gardens, cross the lovely Nature's Chapel and Flower Circle, and pass the life-sized sculptures of dinosaurs, built in the 1940s when the Gardens were a tourist attraction, that still lurk among the trees.
For a slightly more strenuous walk, the Hammock Trail leads visitors under a canopy of oak trees to the Confederate Oak, a 250-year-old Live Oak rumored to have provided shelter to Civil War soldiers. The Garden also features the unique Human Sun Dial, where guests can stand on a stone representing the current month and see their shadows point to the correct time. The Information Center provides visitors with interesting facts about the Gardens and self-guided tour maps.
