Five Star Trails Gainesville & Ocala

15.95

Publisher: Menasha Ridge Press
Available in: Paperback, Kindle
ISBN: 978-0897326148

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Second Place, Outdoor Book. Florida Outdoor Writers Association, 2014

Concentrating on hiking trails found within an hour of either community, Five Star Trails Gainesville & Ocala shows off both urban woodlands and wilderness trails in a diverse mix of habitats throughout a four-county region.

With 38 hikes, many appearing in print for the first time, the book includes a mix of easy walks and longer day hikes. It includes some of our favorite hikes along the Florida Trail in the Ocala National Forest and on the Cross Florida Greenway.

Important: Since publication of this guidebook, the dog policy in the Ocala National Forest has changed. Dogs are no longer permitted on the trails at Juniper Springs Recreation Area, or at any trail that goes near any spring or swimming area.

The list of hikes below is what you’ll find inside the covers of this guide. As promised in the Appendix to this book, the following links enable you to download the GPS tracks we collected to make the maps in this guidebook. All were collected with a Garmin Oregon 400t or Garmin Dakota 20 and annotated in Garmin Basecamp. Right-click on the download link and use “Save Link As” to save the GPX file to your computer.

Please respect the availability of these GPS tracks for your personal use only; do not upload them to other websites. Thank you!

The image links lead to galleries for each hike on our Flickr site so you can take a virtual hike before hitting the trail.

#	Region	Hike	GPX file	Images
1	Gainesville	Alfred Ring Park	GPX	view
2	Gainesville	Barr Hammock Preserve	GPX	view
3	Gainesville	Biven's Arm Nature Park	GPX	view
4	Gainesville	Devil's Millhopper Geologic State Park	GPX	view
5	Gainesville	John Mahon Nature Park	GPX	view
6	Gainesville	Loblolly Woods Nature Park	GPX	view
7	Gainesville	Longleaf Flatwoods Reserve	GPX	view
8	Gainesville	Morningside Nature Center	GPX	view
9	Gainesville	Mill Creek Preserve	GPX	view
10	Gainesville	Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park: La Chua Trail	GPX	view
11	Gainesville	Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park: Wacahoota Trail	GPX	view
12	Gainesville	Prairie Creek Preserve	GPX	view
13	Gainesville	San Felasco Hammock Preserve State Park: Moonshine Creek Trails	GPX	view
14	Gainesville	San Felasco Hammock Preserve State Park: North Hiking Trails	GPX	view
15	Gainesville	San Felasco Park	GPX	view
16	Gainesville	Sweetwater Preserve	GPX	view
17	Gainesville	Tuscawilla Preserve	GPX	view
18	Gainesville	University of Florida NATL Nature Trails	GPX	view
19	Gainesville	Watermelon Pond Preserve	GPX	view
20	Ocala National Forest	Davenport Landing Trail	GPX	view
21	Ocala National Forest	Florida Trail: Pat's Island to Hidden Pond	GPX	view
22	Ocala National Forest	Florida Trail: Rodman to Lake Delancy	GPX	view
23	Ocala National Forest	Juniper Springs Nature Trail	GPX	view
24	Ocala National Forest	Lake Eaton Trails	GPX	view
25	Ocala National Forest	Salt Springs Observation Trail	GPX	view
26	Cross Florida Greenway	Florida Trail: Pruitt	GPX	view
27	Cross Florida Greenway	Florida Trail: Santos	GPX	view
28	Cross Florida Greenway	Florida Trail: SW 49th Ave to Land Bridge	GPX	view
29	Cross Florida Greenway	Land Bridge Loop	GPX	view
30	Cross Florida Greenway	Marshall Swamp Trail	GPX	view
31	Ocala	Carney Island Recreation and Conservation Area	GPX	view
32	Ocala	Goethe State Forest: Big Cypress Trail	GPX	view
33	Ocala	Goethe State Forest: Buck Island Pond	GPX	view
34	Ocala	Ocklawaha Prairie Restoration Area	GPX	view
35	Ocala	Rainbow Springs State Park: Sandhill Nature Trail	GPX	view
36	Ocala	Sholom Park	GPX	view
37	Ocala	Silver Springs State Park: River Trails	GPX	view
38	Ocala	Silver Springs State Park: Sandhill and Sinkhole Trails	GPX	view

You can purchase this guide online or patronize a Florida bookstore or outdoor retailer to pick up a copy.

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