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It hard to say because at least here in New England, a lot of the swamps have been long drained.

But if it's anything like the wetlands or swamps that remain - you'd have to be utterly naive or completely insane to try and cross them on foot. Pools of shallow water among sludgey mounds of mud and incrediblely dense and tangled vegetation. It's not even something you would consider entering, much less try and cross.