Florida Hikes!

Your guide to Florida's outdoors, by Sandra Friend, Florida's hiking expert, and her co-author John Keatley, covering the Florida Trail and other trails throughout Florida.

Car Camping

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Places you can go car camping in Florida, both at easy-walk-in primitive sites and designated tenting areas at campgrounds and parks.

Car Camping Locations by Name

Alexander Springs

Alexander Springs

Surrounding one of Florida's most picturesque first magnitude springs, Alexander Springs Recreation Area provides visitors with many options to enjoy
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Anastasia State Park

Anastasia State Park

Anastasia State Park is windswept and sandy, with an arc of beach that stretches four miles to Matanzas Inlet, curving
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Bahia Honda State Park

Bahia Honda State Park

Long known for its natural beaches, Bahia Honda State Park has a lot of healing and rebuilding to do after
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Manatees in Blue Spring Run

Blue Spring State Park

Blue Spring State Park is well acclaimed for being the best place in Florida to see manatees in the wild,
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Cayo Costa State Park

Cayo Costa State Park

To spend a day or a weekend on your own deserted island? Heaven. This is one of the tougher and
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Collier Memorial at Collier-Seminole State Park

Collier-Seminole State Park

It was meant to be a national park, the largest natural hammock of royal palms in the United States, set
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Dead Lakes Recreation Area

Dead Lakes Park

Centered around a mysterious 6,700-acre swamp forest with open waters and shrunken bald cypresses, Dead Lakes Recreation Area provides paddlers,
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Fishing at E.G. Simmons Park, Ruskin

E.G. Simmons Park

E.G. Simmons Park in Ruskin offers a campground along with its beaches and mazy mangrove-lined waterways for paddlers and anglers
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Hilly longleaf pine ecosystem at Falling Waters State Park

Falling Waters State Park

Geology is the focus of Falling Waters State Park, which sits atop a tall ridge. The cascade plunges more than
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Faver-Dykes State Park

Faver-Dykes State Park

From Faver-Dykes State Park, you can easily explore the estuaries of the Matanzas River. Shaded by oak hammocks along Pellicer
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Florida Caverns State Park

Florida Caverns State Park

A dip into Florida’s only show cave at Florida Caverns State Park brings on an instant sense of cool. Opened
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Fort Clinch

Fort Clinch State Park

Fort Clinch State Park offers camping by the sea, and extensive bike trails along a slender peninsula. But the main
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Fort Pickens

Fort Pickens

History buffs, beachgoers, campers, and hikers looking for an oceanfront experience will enjoy all that Fort Pickens has to offer.
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Rocky Bayou State Park

Fred Gannon Rocky Bayou State Park

It's hard to believe that Fred Gannon Rocky Bayou State Park was once a bombing range! Thank US Air Force
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Spring run at Gemini Springs

Gemini Springs Park

With up to 5 miles of gentle woodland paths and paved trails, playgrounds, picnic area, paddling trail and a dog
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Grayton Beach

Grayton Beach State Park

Grayton Beach State Park protects one in a chain of rare coastal dune lakes with freshwater mere yards from the
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NORTHWEST FLORIDA
Apalachicola . Apalachicola National Forest . Apalachicola River . Blackwater River State Forest . Blountstown . Crawfordville. Crestview . DeFuniak Springs . Destin . Fort Walton Beach . Ebro . Freeport . Gulf Islands National Seashore . Madison . Marianna . Milton . Navarre . Niceville . Panama City Beach . Pensacola . Ponce De Leon . Port St. Joe . Sopchoppy . St. Marks . St. Marks NWR . Tallahassee

NORTH FLORIDA
Amelia Island . Cedar Key . Chiefland . Fernandina Beach . Flagler Beach . Gainesville .High Springs . Jacksonville . Lake City . Live Oak . Mayo . Micanopy . Osceola National Forest . Palatka . Perry . Salt Springs . St. Augustine . Steinhatchee . Suwannee River Wilderness Trail . Trenton . White Springs

CENTRAL FLORIDA
Apopka . Belleview . Brandon . Brooksville . Bushnell . Canaveral National Seashore . Christmas . Clearwater Beach . Clermont . Coast to Coast Trail . Cocoa Beach . Cross Florida Greenway . Crystal River . Dade City . Daytona Beach . Deland . Deltona . Dunnellon . Frostproof . Geneva . Inverness . Kissimmee . Lakeland . Lake Wales . Leesburg . Melbourne . Merritt Island NWR . Mount Dora . New Port Richey . New Smyrna Beach . Ocala . Ocala National Forest .Orlando . Ormond Beach . Oviedo . Sanford . Silver Springs . St. Cloud . St. Petersburg . Tampa . Tarpon Springs . Titusville . Walt Disney World . Withlacoochee State Forest . Withlacoochee State Trail . Yeehaw Junction

SOUTHWEST FLORIDA
Bradenton . Charlotte Harbor . Ding Darling NWR . Englewood . Estero . Fort Myers . Naples . Pine Island . Punta Gorda . Sanibel Island . Sarasota . Venice

SOUTH FLORIDA
Arcadia . Big Cypress . Big Cypress National Preserve . Clewiston . Everglades City . Everglades National Park . Fisheating Creek . Lake Okeechobee . Lake Okeechobee Scenic Trail . Lake Placid . Moore Haven . Okeechobee . Sebring

SOUTHEAST FLORIDA
Biscayne Bay . Biscayne National Park . Boca Raton . Coral Gables . Everglades National Park . Florida Keys . Fort Lauderdale . Fort Pierce . Hobe Sound . Homestead . Jupiter . Key Biscayne . Miami . Ocean to Lake . Palm Beach . Port St. Lucie . Sebastian . Stuart . Vero Beach . West Palm Beach