I strongly encourage to visit this place once it reopens. This is a rehabilitation center for sea turtles. The volunteers are knowledgeable and happy to answer questions. They run small show, where they explain about the different turtles, how they got injured , and when they are expected to be released. Do not miss out on the aquariums they have on site and the board walk. They have free Parking onsite.

I have been here a number of times throughout my life and will continue to return. It’s a nice small place that is a go to destination around this area. It’s a nice place to see the cute animals. The set up of the place is attractive, and great and friendly staff. Gumbo Limbo has a great mission and they continue with it well. The area of Boca Raton is nice, it’s a great town. The location has easy access parking and it’s easy to get to. I recommend Gumbo Limbo, if you haven’t been there yet, you should visit!

Excellent conversation center focused on local ecology, especially in understanding and aiding Sea Turtles.Pretty amazing to see all of the different hatchery rooms and rehabilitation rooms and all of the hard work that goes into it.Great boardwalks meander through forest-like areas. And eventually lead to an open area with beautiful views (photos).Cool aquarium in the entrance building as well as a fun gift shop. Useful poster on Florida’s venomous snakes for anyone interested!

If you haven’t been here yet, MAKE IT A POINT TO GO. It’s beautiful and so well maintained and the staff are amazing! What this place stands for creates the hope we need in humanity. There’s a donation of $5 per person requested upon entrance which goes to maintaining everything. There’s trails, a gift shop, you can see where the turtles are being rehabilitated, there’s a bunch of other fish too! It’s so nice that places like this exist because zoos are completely inappropriate and I believe unless the animals are hurt or in danger or endangered, they should be in their natural habitats! A great place for kids, and even some adults to learn how bad plastics are for not only the ocean but life as well.

10-09-2020 Gumbo Limbo remains CLOSED to the public due to COVID. Although Google shows it is open, call first to verify. It is a fantastic facility aimed at Sea Turtle and marinelife rehabilitation, with top-notch volunteers and staff that love to educate visitors about the varieties of sea Turtles under their care. Make sure to visit once they reopen! (The boardwalk remains open with parking south of the facility... Signs direct you to parking) A nice view of the intercoastal at the west end.

I absolutely love sea turtles so we made a stop here and it was amazing! Donation of $5 per person and you get to see the turtles up close, read and hear about them, why they are there for rehab and how they are released! Everyone was super friendly and knowledgeable and loved to answer questions! Will definitely return when we are back in Florida!

Absolutely love this place! I have been coming here since high school and its such a joy to share it with my son! Its one of our favorite nature centers in the area. It is always beautifully kept up and the staff is wonderful! Definitely recommend to anyone who wants to learn more about our coast!

Amazing! Turtles, aquariums and a awesome nature board walk. One of my kids favorite places to spend the day. Great place to bring family to visit.

Such a great find!!! The bathrooms are very clean. The nature center is well kept. Very kid friendly. The butterfly garden is amazing!!! My family and I enjoyed the turtles,the aquarium, and the red snack. They have a lovely and friendly staff. Well kept gift shop. Loved it!!!

This is a fantastic place to go to and to enjoy some amazing aquatic setups. They have a really interesting turtle talk. They also have gopher turtles roaming a large section. The gift shop is very nice. They are currently working on the boardwalk that goes to the north side. It seems as though they will be done in under a year. The FAU research section is quite the sight to see.

This place was really neat. Its free which is very cool. You can donate money if you would like. They have about 4 big aquariums. What was also cool, they had people next to the different viewing areas to explain different types of fish or how the water is fed into the tank, etc. That was educational which we appreciated. Also the butterfly garden was great to explore and as you follow a trail past the garden you are led to a small beach or inlet where we saw a manatee. Overall we had a great visit.

These people do really great work saving the sea turtles!The boardwalk is great and ends by a park with a bbq pit and table. I read the review that said they were thrown out when they tried to feed their kids in the car and cant believe thats what happened.While it is free, there is a suggested donation of $5. If you go, please give that donation so these people can continue working on wildlife!

Thank you to the people of gumbo limbo for all they are doing to preserve the turtles of the ocean. Beautiful facility and wonderful volunteers. Great way to spend half a day.

I loved it there so much! Beautiful little getaway. I am a kid at heart so I had a blast.Free of charge ( donations are suggested )

This place is fantastic! It has a wide variety of creatures to see and learn about. its was such a wonderful experience seeing some of these creatures in real life for the first time.

Great spot to visit with family and friends. We come every so often and usually bring family and friends visiting from out of town and the kids always love it.Always interesting and informative for the kids and adults.

What a great find for a weekend. A walkway bridge with nature trail, butterfly garden, sea turtle rehabilitation area and tanks with several species of fish. Great place to spend the day learning about local wildlife and enjoying the outdoors!

The last time I had visited here was over 15 years ago, so it was a treat to take my children to a place I enjoyed on school trips! Very educational place, and the lessons they teach about the animals and their importance to our fragile ego system was great for our 4 year old! My 2 year old just loved the 2 large aquariums and the Sea Turtle Rehabilitation tanks. The people here and kind and very knowledgeable, and I appreciate their willingness to teach and answer questions. They have a beautiful butterfly garden, but these days it’s a bit too got to spend a lot of time there, the kids did not enjoy the heat. Most of this place is outside, and I’m thinking of trying again end of the year when it’s a bit cooler. My fav part was the Boardwalk from the parking lot next door to the Center, it’s a beautiful walk in nature, and I got a ton of pics. But you don’t need to park there to walk it!Notes: overflow parking next door is not free, it’s pay by hour. Also, it’s $5 donation to visit here and I highly suggest paying as the proceeds help this wonderful place keep going, as well as help it’s Animal residents cared for. Bring Water/Snacks/Comfy Shoes too!

Hello, if you have a rental car and don’t mind driving up to Boca Raton their is a great nature center featuring sea turtles. It’s called Gumbo Limbo and they rescue and rehab wild sea turtles . My wife and I truly admire the work they are doing for these injured turtles. You can spend a few hours touring the center and see what their doing. Admission is by donation which supports the work going on. Definitely worth the trip.

Great place to visit, The center is donation based. They help injured turtles with recovery. The center is kids friendly with a treasure hunt available for kids. The gift shop sells items by 4ocean and benjihicks.

The Gumbo Limbo Nature Center is a fun place to take the family. This place should get an extra star for the good they do in saving Sea Turtles. Highly educational in the world of the ocean especially with Sea Turtle preservation, this place is one not to miss. I enjoyed the feeding of the fish and turtles in the two large deep aquariums and the two large shallow tanks. The facilities are very nice and the nature trail is something to enjoy. I like the education on Turtle lighting and found out that there are 7 types of Sea Turtles and the Florida waters are home to 6 of them. Bet you didn’t know that. If so, you listened better than me in oceanography class. The gift shop is small, but has all the typical Florida stuff and the full size turtle statues out front are fun for a photo opportunity and the kids love to play on them. I will be back...

Very cute place.. staff is very welcoming and knowledgeable for sure. Consider becoming a member to support the good work they do.The nature center as you see it seems like just a small part of thier work.

Great place to bring kids and adults too. I’ve cane here my whole life bad I think it’s a great place. Animals are great and fun. Customer service or the front desk is nice and friendly. Love it

They are doing great job preserving with concept of protect, rehabilitate and release of various forms of life e.g Turtles. There is butterfly garden with some butterflies in it. While this is free to visit Please donate and help support the people who protect and preserve.

Such a cool educational place to take kids! Seeing the rescued turtles and learning about their stories and rehabilitation was really cool. My son loves Spider-Man, and one of the rescues was named Peter Parker, so he loved watching her (it was a girl!) It’s an amazing establishment to be caring for these creatures. There’s also a lot of information on how littering decomposes and the effects of the materials in the water. Staff was very friendly and seemed to care very much about their work!

We drove an hour to visit this place for the sea turtles. I think they had 3 tanks and the volunteers were not that talkative. I had a much better time at Loggerhead for that. They did have 2 huge fish tanks that were really cool and the walking trail was nice.

Great learning experience for young and old alike! Shady benches to cool off at and water fountains!

We loved participating and supporting gumbo limbo nature center with beach cleanups! The staff is great and had a great experience with the entire group.

Great little park where you can see lots of sea life in aquariums. They also have a sea turtle rehab. This is great for children to be exposed to local sea life. There is also a nice boardwalk trail.

Its a great experience....take your kids enjoy nature and walk around the trees!!!

The tortles are wonderful. they are doing their best to get better.

Visited here a while ago I wish it was open now it’s very relaxing

Fun place for kids or adults to see Floridas sealife and how to take care of it

Was in Boca for a day and a half and was looking to do something outdoorsy with my significant other. This spot was perfect for that. Doesn’t cost anything to enter but they expect you to pay at least $5 per person to keep their business open. They are open for a good cause and rehabbing turtles is one of their main specialities. If you got a few hrs to kill, this is a cool spot to go with someone of ANY AGE. I thought their fish tanks were pretty fascinating.

Great place to come with family, learn about sea animals ans how to protect the nature. Youll see sea turtles, sea fishes, butterflies, crabs, spiders, rays and will have lots of fun

Took our 3 year old granddaughter there. Right on A1A and the ocean.Great facility with a turtle rehab center, large fish tank with big windows for viewing , and a butterfly preserve.They also have nature walks.

Had a great time at Gumbo Limbo. This is a great place to bring the kids for cheap. There are tanks with sea turtles being rehabilitated as well as several aquarium tanks with all sorts of fish and creatures! My favorite were the pufferfish! Every where was pretty wheelchair accessible and there were plenty of bathrooms.

Small but very nice place to take the family for an hour or so. Butterfly garden, 5 large tanks with fish which are fed in front of everyone while they tell you about the fish inside, other tanks holding rescued turtles and a boardwalk.

We love coming out here. My son loves seeing all the baby turtles. And my 9 month old daughter loves the big thanks of fish.

Nice place, friendly staff, clean facility, beautiful creatures and beautiful work theyre doing!

Amazing Nature Center. I went for a field trip, they taught us a lot about ecosystems. Its a very clean and well organized place. Its nice to see the turtles in the nursery, along with the fascinating other fish, sea stars, and other marine life in their homes.

This is a little gem in South Florida. It has a gift store, fish tanks, and rehab facility right on site. It also includes a butterfly garden that is outside and full of butterfly-friendly plants. During the summer, it can be quite hot so wear cool clothes. Especially in the butterfly garden, where there is very little breeze which the butterflies dont like. You can also go into the rehabilitation area, which is more like a hospital, and see some of the turtles that they have rescued and are in the process of rehabilitating. In the fish tanks you can see all sorts of things including moray eel, Florida lobster, Stingray, barracuda, angelfish, and tarpon. Theres a reef tank, and also a shipwreck tank, which they use for educational purposes. At 12:30 p.m. every day they feed turtles and fish and talk about them so it is very useful. And at 2:30, theres a turtle talk. Its free, but you really should think about donating more than what they ask because they dont ask for very much.

I love how they keep it clean and its so informational. The turtle exhibits are amazing, and they have nice aquariums too. The staff is really friendly and helpful. Great place to visit and good for families too! Parking is free, but I went during a busy time, so had to do several laps before a spot opened up.Id definitely visit again!

Weve been twice as a family but my wife grew up going to gumbo limbo and still loves it just as much as an adult! Most definitely will be coming back to visit the sea turtles!!!

It’s a nice experience for a family. But it’s pretty small. It’s more of a we’ll drop in because we’re around kind of place. Half of an afternoon kind of place. Great for turtle lovers

Everyone was very helpful and I enjoyed the butterfly garden so much. The boardwalk to the beach was closed temporarily for improvements. The aquarium tanks were pretty impressive for a small nature center. We were there for feeding time.

Awesome place to go to kill some time on a nice day or a free to extremely cheap family adventure. Really captures the essence of natural south FL. $5 donation requested, but not required for entry.

All the staff and volunteers are knowledgable and friendly. They care a lot for the animals and it is a wondeful place to support. Please adopt a sea turtle or hatchling!

Gumbo Limbo is a really great place to spend an hour with your kids. The Staff is super sweet and you can feel that all love to work there. The turtle rehab is such a great part of the establishment. We have been here countless times never disappoints.

My kids loved it here, learned about the rescued turtles. The butterfly garden was beautiful, trais are awesome. Small aquarium but had soooo many amazing fishes. Did not get the name of the attended there but she was very informative! And Bring a snack and water you will be here for up to 2hrs or more if exploring with kids( you can purchase snacks here as well) Parking is free, donations accepted. Lovely place! ♡♡

Very nice facility. The nature walk was done very well, nice boardwalk. Spoke with several employees and all were very pleasant and informative.

This is a great place to visit. They do really great work here helping injured turtles. They have fish tanks where they have feedings. They have a boardwalk that led out to the river, but we were more interested in the large spider webs all over the area.

The center is free but there is a suggested $5 donation and the volunteers are both knowledgeable and helpful. I went with my 8 year old cousin and she really enjoyed it. Theres plenty of places to relax and sit and even a nice little Beach area (signs say dont go in the water) near the butterfly garden.

They have done an EXCELLENT job with this place! Volunteer docents everywhere to answer questions, well maintained decking and railings on trails, and a cool overlook of a research center from FAU about marine turtles. HIGHLY recommended if youre in the area!!

This place is fun for the whole family. Be aware there are no complimentary wheelchairs. Admission is your choice of donation (around $5/person).

What a great facility, you can tell the staff truly enjoy their jobs and care for the animals. Its great for the little ones but also informative for adults. Make sure to bring water and comfortable walking shoes!

Love this place absolutely beautiful perfect place to take the kids for an outing and its really inexpensive the staff is so nice and so willing to want to help they are incredibly informational and will do the best they can answering any questions you may have. The bathrooms are incredibly clean and so are the fish tanks as well as the living conditions of the sea turtles so worth donating to this organization. Just be CAREFUL there are alot of banana spiders in the butterfly garden as well as baby crabs Im so glad I came here to check this place out will definitely be back.

Very hot while outside but cool inside. They have a gift shop and fish, baby turtles, and grown turtles. They have a butterfly garden too.

I love this place. My parents used to take me where when i was a kid. Nice that you can visit for free. Nature boardwalk trail. Turtle rescue. V cute.

Excellent educational programs, nice trails. Good for the whole family as they provide activities for all ages

This is a great free activity for the kids (donations accepted and encouraged for the great work they do). Parking is free, but come early because the lot is small and fills up. I enjoyed watching them feed the fish and they gave very great information about the turtles, fish and habitats. My favorite part was going through the walking trails/butterfly garden. Very peaceful. The hatchlings are adorable.

Enjoyed a nature-filled day with family. The kids loved the turtles and asked lots of questions directly to the knowledgeable, friendly staff.

Awesome place with an awesome mission. Excellent place for kids and adults as well. There is no charge, but it is recommended to drop a few bucks in the donation bin.

One of south Florida’s best spots to spend an afternoon. I have grown up going to the nature center and the way they have grown and continued to help the environment is outstanding. I could not say enough good things about the staff or the exhibits. The turtles are always so beautiful and the tanks are also great to see. I am excited about taking my children there as they grow too. Truly a piece of heaven on earth. They also have events where the release the turtles they rescue!

Perfect place for some nature indulgence and get away from the noisy streets of Boca Raton. Gumbo Limbo Nature Center is a Environmental Complex. With a total of twenty acres, this protected barrier island is in the area between the Intracoastal and the Atlantic Ocean. It is on land which is part of the beachfront-to-intracoastal Red Reef Park, though Gumbo Limbo does not have land directly on the beach, but does have Intracoastal Waterway frontage. Gumbo Limbo is best known for its involvement with protecting sea turtles. Boca Raton Sea Turtle Conservation and Research Program at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center is located in the nature center and has Marine Conservationists and Marine Sea Turtle Specialists that monitor, record, and study the sea turtle activity on the five miles of Boca Ratons city beach. There is an aquarium for the family and kids to look at and interact with, along with a public gallery that is open for visitors to view the facility. During the summer and fall sea turtle hatchlings can be viewed. Students are often working in the building and are happy to talk to visitors in the gallery. When you are done with the nature center, youd want to check out the butterfly garden outside, long with a hiking trail that takes you throughout the preserve. They have an observation tower that we went on before it closed, but at the moment they are in the middle of a maintenance project for the tower and wont be open until fall 2017. I recommend this place for anyone who enjoys the outdoors, nature and REAL FLORIDA!

Neat place to check out, better on slower days when its not as busy. They just recently reopened the Boardwalk after a long while of remodel but its only half complete - the observation tower is currently torn down

You get to see how they help marine animals. They have huge turtles and awesome tanks. Great time to go is during turtle festival.

Nice place to take children to see turtles, sea horses and other sea animals.

Absolutely wonderful experience! We went twice within the week as we loved it so much. What a learning experience and eye opener to the cause-effect relationship between human actions and our oceans and the living species that habitat within. This facility was kept super clean and had exceptional staff who are very knowledgeable. We especially love the rehabilitation center!!

You do fun and learn there. The staff is always friendly. Bring lots and lots of drinking water with you: Itll be hot, humid, muggy, hot, and hot. Dont be afraid when you see those monstrous spiders around the boardwalk. Just have fun, respect, and ready to learn Nature.

Love this place. What they do for the sea animals. And its a great place to visit with kids. And love the gift shop and all they offer.

Nice and beautiful center, and you only give 5 dollar for donations and you contribute at the place to be nice. And also you can be volunteer just field a inscription

The best place ever! Going back there again this year. Love them for what they are doing for the animals.

Very nice aquariums, wooden walking trail through mangroves, and a sea turtle hospital. Clean, well kept, friendly staff.

Definitely worth the 25 mile drive each way to visit. So much for adults and children to learn and to be able to see wildlife such as the sea turtle close up. The work they do is amazing in rescuing these ocean animals. And there is no actual entrance fee although a donation of $5 a person is recommended and more than warranted.

What a great stop, the sea turtle rescue section was a real gem with friendly & knowledgeable volunteers ready to talk about the turtles in their rescue program. The butterfly garden was nice as well as the wetland boardwalk, too bad you couldnt get more of a view of the water while on the boardwalk.

Weve been going to Gumbo Limbo since my son was 3yo. Great facility, friendly staff, and lots to see and do. They provide a great service. They rescue and rehabilitate inured and sick sea turtles, which gives children the opportunity to see many species up close. And, they educate the public on local and world environmental issues. Were fans for life.

This is a research and rehab so if I could rate it 10 stars I would just because of the very important work they do. Im so glad I stumbled across Gumbo Limbo, very nice setup with lots to keep your little one occupied for at least half a day (more or less depending if you move fast and rush around or move about lazily. The staff are always so pleasant and helpful which is so refreshing. Definitely a high recommend for me

If its not prime weather for snorkeling or even after an early high tide snorkeling day then Gumbo Limbo is the next best thing. Nice place to visit, parking is free for nature center only.Definitely creative motivation to donate An acrylic painting. exciting, entertaining and educational.

Awesome educational opportunity to learn about sea turtles and other native Florida wildlife.

The work they are doing here is so important! I was extremely impressed with the facilities and the passion of the volunteers. Definitely come here and bring your kids so they can learn about the ocean and conserving the amazing creatures in it!

Very cool place, big aquariums with fishes and turtles, highly recommended

My 10 and 12 year olds and Ioved this place, we got to see rescued sea turtles and other sea life, huge fish aquariums and there is an outdoor natural area/small trail too.

This was a great stop. You dont only get to see some marine life but the kids also get to learn about what people are doing to preserve and rehabilitate injured sea turtles.

Very good service

This place is GREAT, it has turtles in the sea and they sadly got sugery:( but they are ok I LOVE turtles

Its an amazing little park with aquariums, a perfect place to visit if you love nature

The entrance is on free offer (5dollars suggested). They have a turtle hospital (closing time: 4pm) and 2 nature path (closing tima:dusk). There are small crabs on mangroves!

Have tried to visit. Can never get a parking spot. They need to put a time limit on visiting. You have all these women with strollers who go there and spend hours. If no time limits then add more parking or let people make a reservation with a dedicated parking spot.

If its not prime weather for snorkeling and Gumbo Limbo is the next best thing. Nice place to visit, parking is free for nature center only.Definitely creative motivation to donate An acrylic painting. exciting, entertaining and educational.

Great place for family and kids

LOVE this place. Great activity with family or friends, especially to see the baby turtles, fish, stingrays and more!

Interesting place to visit. Something nice to do for an afternoon. Wish we could have seen more of the animals. Cool spot to see butterflies.

Love this place, its free, and its a great place to bring your kids and see turtles and other aquatic animals, they have a beautiful butterfly trial that leads to a hidden beachfront, you cant swim in it, but its a stunning find after the walk. My family and I go evertime we go to florida, plus theres a beach right next to it that perfect for family

This place is a true Delight. A moderate if not ridiculously low donation of $5 gets you in the door. And, it would be the best $5 you ever spent. The boardwalk is wonderfully maintained the Nature Preserve itself is quiet and peaceful with some of the biggest spiders youve ever seen in your life. Highly recommended. I hope you will enjoy it as much as I.

Fantastic. A beautiful, calm and peaceful place.

Went here when I was a kid, glad to know this place is here to stay! They have expanded quite a lot over the years, complete with a seaturtle rehabilitation facility and FAU Marine Biology research center. They also added a small outdoor butterfly garden, very peaceful with a short trail to lake Wyman. The tower is NOT complete yet, probably will be done by Spring 2019. Can’t wait for the tower.

Gumbo limbo nature center was such a quick and relaxing stop on my drive from Miami to Orlando. Just a short ways away from the highway, you will immersed in God’s great creation. There’s free parking on site and the center requests a $5 donation. There’s so much to see! I only did a few things which was the nature trails, seeing sea turtles, and my favorite, being surrounded by beautiful monarch butterflies. Try out gumbo limbo and simply reconnect with nature.

Awesome place. Love that its free. Donations recommended.

Worthwhile stop! The exhibits wont wow you but its a lovely place to bring friends and family from out of town. The newly installed boardwalk trail is very nice too! The butterfly garden is also very enjoyable.