Five Star Trails Gainesville & Ocala

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.

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