Team-reported observation
Bald eagles
Haliaeetus leucocephalus
A nesting eagle is a powerful reminder that a neighborhood landscape can also be wildlife habitat. The team has reported an active nest at Jetta Point.
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JETTA POINT PRESERVE · A COMMUNITY VISION
A little wild.
A lot worth
protecting.
Discover the nature in your backyard—and the neighbors wanting to preserve it for all of us.
Jetta Point is a wetland and scrub landscape beside the Cross Seminole Trail in east Winter Springs. Together, we’re envisioning a low-impact nature preserve for wildlife, water, and all who call the area home.
THE WILD SIDE
Meet the neighbors.
The other neighbors.
Bald eagles, gopher tortoises, and a landscape full of discoveries. Get to know the wildlife that neighbors are working to protect.
Team-reported observation
Gopher tortoises
Gopherus polyphemus
Quiet diggers with an outsized role. The team has documented tortoises and active burrows, connecting the preservation effort to the life beneath our feet.
A future habitat idea
Room for bats
An idea worth exploring
A bat house is part of the evolving park concept. Its suitability, location, and care would need ecological review. A local bat species inventory is still to come.
AI illustration · Not a local wildlife photograph
A good neighbor gives wildlife space. Enjoy observations without approaching nests, disturbing burrows, or sharing their precise locations.
WHY IT MATTERS
It’s about nature.
And our neighborhoods.
What happens here reaches beyond the property line. Understand the community concerns behind the preservation effort.
Cycle, run,
walk, breathe.
The Cross Seminole Trail is a gem of our community. Neighbors want to protect the shade, quiet, and natural setting that make it special.
The trail experience ↗Protect our
neighborhoods.
Residents are concerned about how development could change drainage. Understanding Jetta Point’s wetlands is central to that conversation.
Flooding & wetlands ↗Keep our
roads moving.
Access near SR 434 deserves careful attention. Any development proposal needs to account for neighbors, drivers, walkers, and cyclists.
Traffic & access ↗OUR VISION
More nature.
A lighter footprint.
Jetta Point Preserve: a community vision for a low-impact nature preserve beside the Cross Seminole Trail.
Explore the community vision ↗Proposed features are subject to environmental, access, and feasibility review.
Time outside, close to home.
Imagine natural dirt or pine-straw paths, interpretive signs, and places to pause near the Black Hammock Trailhead.
Create habitat, inspire learning.
Protect wildlife, restore disturbed areas, and explore bat habitat and a butterfly and pollinator garden.
Work with the water.
Keep the landscape’s water-retention and aquifer-recharge potential part of planning for the area.
LATEST UPDATES
A community
moving forward.
UPCOMING · OCTOBER 24, 2026
Jetta Point BioBlitz
5–7 p.m. EDT · Black Hammock Trailhead
Explore local plants and animals, add observations, and watch for eagles from the Cross Seminole Trail.
Event details & what to bring ↗SEPTEMBER 25, 2026
A voice for preservation
Elliot shared the community’s passive-preserve case and a county parks rezoning feedback opportunity. Jetta Point was not on that meeting’s agenda.
Read the update ↗Save Jetta Point.
Help shape its future.
Find your way to help ↗Some places remind us
to slow down.
Leave a little room for wonder.