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Bartram's Bass sculpture in Riverfront Park, Palatka

City Parks in Florida

Urban outdoor adventures await in Florida’s city parks

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40 Acre Park

40 Acre Park wetlands

Welaka      ( 29.4730, -81.6644 )      0.5 miles

A community park in Welaka, 40 Acre Park is a great stop for birding, with little-used trails that ramble around a series of wetlands once used in the fish hatchery

A.D. Barnes Park

AD Barnes Park

Miami      ( 25.738433, -80.308917 )      0.6 miles

Paved trails wind through the woods at A.D. Barnes Park, a Miami city park, where a tiny slice of native pine rocklands survives.

Alfred A. Ring Park

Alfred Ring Park Trail

Hogtown Creek Greenway  |  Gainesville
( 29.674283, -82.347019 )      1.5 miles

Featuring a dense slope forest along Hogtown Creek with old-growth trees and rare wildflowers along Appalachian-style ravines, this is a scenic hike in the heart of Gainesville

Alligator Lake

Alligator Lake

Lake City      ( 30.169414, -82.615686 )      6.3 miles

In the city once called Alligator, first home of the University of Florida and named for a great chief of the Seminoles, Alligator Lake has long been a gathering place. Established as a park in 2002, hiking and bicycling are now its primary focus.

Angus Gholson Nature Park

Angus Gholson Nature Park

Chattahoochee      ( 30.697700, -84.849189 )      1.0 miles

Above the Apalachicola River, the community of Chattahoochee hides a natural treasure in its deep ravines—a park named for its native son, botanist Angus Gholson.

Apoxee Wilderness Trail

Apoxee Wilderness

Grassy Waters Preserve  |  West Palm Beach
( 26.727542,-80.151119 )      4.7 miles

In the wet prairies and tropical hammocks of Apoxee Wilderness, an urban wilderness area, you’ll walk through the water supply of West Palm Beach on a 4.7-mile day hike through the southernmost part of Grassy Waters Preserve

Arlington Park

Arlington Park

Jacksonville      ( 30.376967, -81.618467 )      1.1 miles

A breezy walk along the St. Johns River is an easy way to start your day in Jacksonville at the Arlington Lions Club Park, with riverside boardwalks and a mile of trails

Audubon Park

Long narrow boardwalk over marsh to pines

East Central Regional Rail Trail  |  Deltona
( 28.8596, -81.2004 )      1.6 miles

In 60 acres of green space that gently reclaims stormwater through a series of marshes, Audubon Park lets birders and hikers enjoy a quiet walk adjoining a beauty spot along the East Central Regional Rail Trail.

Bear Creek Nature Trail

Creek through a Florida forest

Winter Springs      ( 28.677795, -81.245833 )      0.9 miles

A patch of wild in a sea of suburbia, Bear Creek provides nearly a mile’s worth of exploration atop sandy bluffs in a shady creekside hammock in Winter Springs.

Bear Cut Preserve

Bear Cut Preserve

Crandon Park  |  Miami
( 25.715894, -80.150372 )      2.2 miles

Protecting natural habitats at the north end of Crandon Park, Bear Cut Preserve offers a different perspective on the shoreline of Key Biscayne, with footpaths and bike paths for exploration.

Betz-Tiger Point Preserve

Red Trail Betz Tiger Point

Jacksonville      ( 30.4863, -81.4906 )      5.5 miles

On a peninsula where the Timucua used the surrounding estuary for sustenance, Betz-Tiger Point Preserve provides more than six miles of breezy trails

Bill Frederick Park

Bill Frederick Park

Orlando      ( 28.500772, -81.475042 )      2.4 miles

Inside the city of Orlando, the urban Bill Frederick Park has a wild side, too, with more than 2 miles of trails to meander through scrub forest and along Turkey Lake.

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